All the formulations were developed exclusively on a laboratory scale of the order of 1 kg maximum. For this reason, scale-up for production must therefore be checked and revised, as necessary. It …
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 …
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, eac…
A recent article published in the New York Times quoted the astounding statistic that as many as 7,000–10,000 deaths in the United States can be attributed on an annual basis to prescription erro…
Today, computers are so ubiquitous in pharmaceutical research and development that it may be hard to imagine a time when there were no computers to assist the medicinal chemist or biologist. A quar…
The administration of one drug (A) can alter the action of another (B) by one of two general mechanisms: • Modification of the pharmacological effect of B without altering its concentration in th…