Pharmacy category: 507 books
Biopharma R&D Partnerships
From David & Goliath to Networked R&D
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The past decade has seen a massive paradigm shift in how new drugs and other therapies are discovered, developed and commercialized. This new distributed model of networked R&D seamlessly blends external partnerships with in-house efforts to generate innovations and create value. Smaller companies...
Poorly Soluble Drugs
Dissolution and Drug Release
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book is the first text to provide a comprehensive assessment of the application of fundamental principles of dissolution and drug release testing to poorly soluble compounds and formulations. Such drug products are, vis-à-vis their physical and chemical properties, inherently incompatible with...
Drug Safety
Problems, Pitfalls and Solutions in Identifying and Evaluating Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
With “Big Pharma” garnering an increasing number of negative headlines due to reports of adverse drug reactions and a surge in prescription drug addiction and overdose deaths, many people are increasingly skeptical about the safety of modern pharmaceutics and the moral integrity of the pharmaceutical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The respiratory tract has been used to deliver biologically active chemicals into the human body for centuries. However, the lungs are complex in their anatomy and physiology, which poses challenges to drug delivery. Inhaled formulations are generally more sophisticated than those for oral and parenteral...
by Basanta Kumara Behera, Ajit Varma
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book describes how microbes can be used as effective and sustainable resources to meet the current challenge of finding suitable and economical solutions for biopharmaceuticals, enzymes, food additives, nutraceuticals, value added biochemicals and microbial fuels, and discusses various aspects...
by Eva Incocciati, Farmalibri - Gabriele Daddo Carcano
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Cronache dal Microcosmo n°1
Come è nata l'acqua? Perché l'acqua non brucia?
"Fu tanto tempo fa, ed io me lo ricordo, fu quando incontrai il signor Owq. Fu un colpo di fulmine, un'esplosione elettronica, una rivoluzione nucleare, l'alba di un nuovo mondo..."
HWA, al secolo H2O, ci racconta...
Big Data in Healthcare
Extracting Knowledge from Point-of-Care Machines
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book reviews a number of issues including: Why data generated from POC machines are considered as Big Data. What are the challenges in storing, managing, extracting knowledge from data from POC devices? Why is it inefficient to use traditional data analysis with big data?
What are the...
Angiogenesis Modulations in Health and Disease
Practical Applications of Pro- and Anti-angiogenesis Targets
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book is a major update of novel targets in angiogenesis modulation, including pro- and anti-angiogenesis. There is in-depth coverage of preclinical and clinical methods and models, investigational status, and clinical applications. The impact of nanotechnology in advancing the applications...
Pediatric Formulations
A Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Until the 1990s, it was generally accepted that medicines were first developed for adults and their use in children was investigated later, if at all. One of the main tasks of hospital pharmacies was the manufacturing of child-appropriate formulations in a more or less makeshift way. The first change...
NAPLEX Practice Question Workbook
1,000+ Comprehensive Practice Questions (2019 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The NAPLEX Practice Question Workbook provides over 1,000 comprehensive practice questions to prepare for the demanding North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX). Master exam topics with intensive practice in the essential areas you'll find on the test. All questions are test-level...
by Jeremy Johnson, Michelle Condren, Kimberly Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
238 Q&A cards sharpen your therapeutic decision-making skills
"These cards offer concise yet detailed case studies for students to review current pharmacotherapeutic options for many of the commonly encountered disease states....Students might find these cards to be a very helpful...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The pace of new research and level of innovation repeatedly introduced into the field of drug delivery to the lung is surprising given its state of maturity since the introduction of the pressurized metered dose inhaler over a half a century ago. It is clear that our understanding of pulmonary drug...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence...
Do You Really Need That Pill?
How to Avoid Side Effects, Interactions, and Other Dangers of Overmedication
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A silent epidemic in the U.S. is imperiling our health: over-medication. Today, one-third of all adults take two or more prescription drugs and half of all seniors take more than five daily. This book-the first of its kind-shows readers how to avoid the dangers of over-medication.
The first...