In the United States, most non-prescription drugs are available over-the-counter (OTC) in pharmacies and other stores. Experts have suggested that ...

Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID's) are one of the most widely prescribed drugs for their analgesic, antiinflammatory and antipyretic pro...

Opioids are among the oldest and most enduring substances used for the management of pain and other medical problems. It is now known that the prop...

This book offers a set of chapters which describes the procedure for drug treatment of the principal diseases that older people suffer from. In the...

Over half of epilepsies start before the age of 20 years and nearly 25% of them are refractory. A tiny proportion of them are even labelled a rare ...

Paclitaxel is an antimitotic drug that promotes microtubule polymerisation and produces sensitisation to radiation. Paclitaxel is a first-line drug...

Congress reauthorized two laws in 2007, the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA) and the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA). PREA require...

Over the past few years, a number of products that signal a new era of medical product development have entered the market or come on the horizon. ...

This book reviews research on pharmaceutical formulation and medicinal chemistry. It begins with a summary of old and new discoveries on therapeuti...

Specialty drugs are one of the fastest-growing areas of health care spending. There is no one set definition of specialty drugs, although insurers ...

Congress has exhibited a strong and ongoing interest in facilitating the development of new, innovative pharmaceuticals for the marketplace while r...

Worldwide, adverse drug reactions are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients, as well as increased healthcare costs. Published data s...

In the monograph, recognition of the receptors by drugs is described as a complex phenomenon that has not been yet entirely understood. The descrip...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of pharmacology, as well as research summaries from a number of differen...

Phytochemicals are health-protecting compounds of plant origin. They provide flavour and colour to edible fruits, plants, herbs and beverages. Heal...

Phytotherapy Approaches for Treatment of Mouth Ulcers is a book with updated and illustrated text with pictures and graphs that help to define, cha...

To date, a number of clinically important drugs have been identified that interact with commonly-used herbs and thus herb-drug interactions have be...

In the midst of national concern over illicit drug use and abuse, prescription drug abuse has been identified as the United States' fastest growing...

By the nature of its use, the intrathecal baclofen pump is frequently implanted in children and adults with either an advanced spinal, pelvic or hi...

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act authorized the Food and Drug Administration to collect user fees from industry to support the approval of new dr...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awards priority review vouchers (PRV) to drug sponsors that develop drugs for tropical diseases or rare pedi...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of prescription drug overdose deat...

The prodrug approach is a promising and well established strategy for the development of new entities that possess superior efficacy, selectivity a...

One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of cancer is the development of drug resistance by the cancer cells. The design of cancer chemot...

The past quarter-century has seen tremendous progress in biomedical research, leading to increasing understanding of cancer, heart disease, diabete...

Propofol is an injectable agent that is commonly used for general anaesthesia. In addition to its central nervous system depressant action, propofo...

Why would anyone want to write about propranolol, the first clinically utilized beta blocker? It is, after all, an outdated medicine. However, that...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have become a mainstay of therapy not only in the practice of gastroenterology, but also for general medicine and eve...

Pharmacotherapy is the most commonly used treatment method for psychiatric disorders. Many patients experience medical diseases concurrent with psy...

Acute diarrhea, although tends to be a self-limiting disease in otherwise healthy people, continues to cause millions of deaths every year, particu...

Randomised clinical trials (RCT) have been accepted as the golden standard of testing, which in turn makes chemical medicine "evidence based". RCT ...

It has been over 100 years since Dr. Paul Ehrlich referred to an ideal therapeutic agent able to target and treat only a highly specific site in an...

This book highlights recent advances in beta blockers research. Beta blockers have been used for the treatment of several clinical conditions and i...

The definition of 'natural' is 'produced or existing in nature.' Natural products refer to as any natural constituents, natural substances, or a gr...