Pharmachemical manufacturing is that branch of fine chemical manufacturing that is directed to the manufacture of chemicals whose ultimate use will be in a final pharmaceutical dosage form, referred to as the active pharmaceutical ingredient (‘‘API’’). This industry segment has undergone very significant changes in much the same manner, but trailing, the pharmaceutical industry itself, …
Everybody thinks it cannot happen to them. And yet, six million people die of cancer every year. Approximately every fourth citizen of a developed country will be stricken sometime during his life and approximately 400 new incidents emerge per 100,000 people annually. Once considered a mysterious disease, cancer has been eventually revealed to investigators (Trichopoulos and Hunter, 1996). Dise…
Davis’s Pocket Clinical Drug Reference is a quick resource for the most commonly used drugs in clinical practice. The monographs are designed to highlight pertinent information; specifically, each monograph includes a drug’s generic name, brand name, therapeutic indication, pharmacologic class, pregnancy class, contraindications, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, dose, availability…