Pharmacology is the study of the changes produced in living animals by chemical substances. There is a great emphasis on the mechanisms underlying the actions of drugs, and both physicians and patients acknowledge the role of drugs in modern therapy....

The role of the pharmaceutical scientist in drug discovery and development is highly varied. Duties range from the synthesis of novel compounds designed to alter disease processes, to the formulation of these compounds into a tablet or capsule, to the...

Pharmacists are professionals whose goals are to achieve positive outcomes from the use of medication to improve patients' quality of life. The practice of pharmacy is a vital part of the complete health care system. Due to society's many...

Drug Therapy Drug therapy encompasses the wide variety of medications administered to combat or regulate diseases and conditions such as cancer, psychiatric illnesses, and seizures. Use of drug therapy in treating children is a relatively new field....

Pharmacology is the study of how drugs interact with living organisms to produce a change in function.[1] If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions,...

JOSEPH G. CANNON. Pharmacology for Chemists. New York NY Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv + 272 pp. 74 figs., 4 tbls. $120.00. The title, Pharmacology for Chemists, clearly describes the aim of this book. The author has taken material from a three-day ACS...

KOUROSH SAEB-PARSY, RAVI G. ASSOMULL, FAKHAR ZKHAN, KASRA SAEB-PARSY AND EAMONN KELLY. Instant Pharmacology. New York NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. xii + 325 pp., 18 fgs., 8 tbls., $90.00 (Cloth), $29.99 (Paper). This pharmacology textbook was written by medical students...

Post-menopausal women who take tamoxifen to treat breast cancer face a greater risk of recurrence if they have a specific genetic variation, federal health advisers said Wednesday in recommending that a warning be added to the drug's label. Recent studies...

Junior's been helping himself to Mother's little helper. That's the conclusion of a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters that found while U.S. teenagers' use of marijuana is declining, their abuse of prescription drugs is holding steady or in some cases...

A case study in which a woman is taking many drugs that are affecting that are contradicting each other. This study presents a plan to remove some of the perscription drugs and alter others to achieve the desired effect in the patient.