Ribavirin has been studied for over 20 years as a potential therapy against a number of RNA and DNA viruses. It is well known that Ribavirin in com...

Rituximab (MabThera®, Rituxan®) is a chimaeric murine/human antibody targeted against the surface antigen CD20 that is expressed on normal and mali...

This book focuses on the safety efforts being implemented in paediatric drug development. Although children suffer from many of the same diseases a...

The drug package that a community pharmacist hands to a patient, or a hospital pharmacist sends to a patient's bedside, or a physician administers ...

This book presents an overview of recent developments for an "old drug", simvastatin. It belongs to the class of statins, the most commonly prescri...

Statins work by reducing cholesterol synthesis by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. The decrease in cholesterol levels is associated with in...

Statins are well-known drugs to lower cholesterol levels and play an important role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. They inhibit hydr...

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are used to treat patients with advanced thyroid cancers. Sunitinib (SU11248) is an oral small-molecule, oxindol derivat...

Tamoxifen was first approved in 1977 and up to now remains a noteworthy therapeutic weapon to treat mainly breast cancer. However, further consider...

Pediatrics is the form of medical care that is concerned with children from birth to adolescence, specializing in a variety of characteristics and ...

Haloperidol is the most common neuroleptic drugs associated with a range of side effects caused by interactions with other drugs. In The Pharmacolo...

Almost six decades after its discovery, metformin still remains the gold standard drug for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, owing to its...

The Pharmacological Guide to Montelukast opens by presenting the most recent updates on the improvement of montelukast stability and bioavailabilit...

This is a comprehensive reference manual. Its authors include seasoned practicing mental health professionals and doctoral psychology program facul...

The Pharmacological Guide to Phenytoin is a multi-authored text geared towards clinicians and pharmacists who will be prescribing and handling phen...

Chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) has been a global health burden since its discovery in 1989. This is the integrated reference book for all clin...

This book provides a current review of the field of Trastuzumab pharmacology from a variety of chemical, biochemical, physiological, pharmacokineti...

The cultural, scientific and legislative divide created by vigorous debates over the legalization of medical marijuana is giving way to a new syner...

Pharmacology can be defined as a discipline of paramedical sciences that teaches how the use of drugs can bring about changes from pathological sta...

This book offers readers an overview of the field of toxicology while incorporating historical context with present day advances. The chapters, wri...

Cox-2 Inhibitors are newly developed drugs for inflammation that selectively block the Cox-2 enzyme. Blocking this enzyme impedes the production of...

Valproic acid (VPA) is a short chain fatty acid which has been used medicinally to treat conditions as far reaching as epilepsy, Bipolar disorder, ...