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Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life altering, life saving, and sometimes life endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs like alcohol, opium, and hemlock; the smallpox and the polio...
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"Dose-Response Curve" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the pharmacological dose-response curve function and the drug-receptor bindings.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can learn...
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Dans ce récent ouvrage révolutionnaire, Peter C. Gotzsche lève le voile sur les comportements frauduleux de l'industrie pharmaceutique dans les domaines de la recherche et de la commercialisation et sur son mépris moralement répugnant pour la vie humaine. L'auteur établit des rapprochements convaincants entre l'industrie pharmaceutique et l'industrie du tabac et révèle l'extraordinaire vérité derrière les efforts déployés pour semer la...
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"Pharmacokinetics" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the pharmacokinetics, drug interactions and drug-binding.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can learn and retain the materials...
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"Pharmacology: An Introduction" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to introduce the basic principles and concepts in pharmacology, drug interactions and drug-binding.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so...
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Buprenorphine, often better known by the brand name Suboxone®, is currently the preferred drug for helping people recover from opiate addiction. But how is the drug best used? Is it something that should be used on a short-term or long-term basis? Can patients really taper off the drug, and if so, how do they go about it with a minimal amount of problems? And what other things should Suboxone patients be doing to ensure they have a positive experience...
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DMSO A True Wonder Drug DMSO is a natural chemical compound derived from trees as a by-product from paper manufacturing. DMSO has been called a new medical principle and a true wonder drug. It has proven effective, either by itself or in combination with other products in the treatment of nearly every ailment known. There has been much controversy about DMSO over the last 50 years. It is one of the most studied medical products ever. Thousands of...
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After more than fifty years of blockbuster drug development, skeptics are beginning to fear we may be reaching the end of drug discovery to combat major diseases. In this engaging book, Brent Stockwell, a leading researcher in the exciting new science of chemical biology, describes this dilemma and the powerful techniques that may bring drug research into the twenty-first century. Filled with absorbing stories of breakthroughs, the book begins with...
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Helping your patients to use their medications safely and appropriately is a critical aspect of clinical practice, but it can be challenging. The published literature on the topic of adherence is vast, and constantly growing and evolving. It is not feasible, nor necessarily helpful, to comprehensively summarize all the available evidence. Instead, this book aims to provide all health professionals with a succinct and handy resource on medication adherence....
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Con frecuencia, los profesionales aplican la terapéutica farmacológica de forma empírica, haciendo uso repetitivo de unos cuantos medicamentos, sin tener en cuenta las interacciones farmacológicas, las contraindicaciones y advertencias, los eventos adversos, los nuevos medicamentos y la condición sistémica del paciente, entre otros. En respuesta a esto, se presenta el Manual de terapéutica odontológica, que tiene el propósito de contribuir...
12) Pharmacology
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Pharmacology is the scientific study of how drugs interact in the human body. It is an important field of study for individuals because it teaches pharmacologists how certain medications will affect its users. Pharmacologists can use this information to decide whether there is a level of toxicity for patients who are coming into the pharmacy to fill a prescription. If it is possible that a medication can cause problems in users, based on other prescriptions...
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An invaluable source of information on the practice of total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with or without target-controlled infusion (TCI) technology
An Overview of TCI and TIVA was, written by two of the leading lights in anesthetic pharmacology. It is an invaluable source of information on the practice of total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with or without target-controlled infusion (TCI) technology. In this long-awaited edition of their popular...
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Pharmacists are, considered one of the most trusted healthcare professionals, and for good reason! In addition to being so accessible, they fill your prescriptions, communicate with your medical providers, educate you, provide necessary vaccines and other services, answer your questions, and the list goes on. Having worked in this field for over 13 years, Dr. Sylvia Perry has learned that as helpful as pharmacists are, the responsibility of any healthcare...
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Nursing pharmacology is a class that nurses are required to take before they receive their licenses. The course teaches nurses how various drugs interact in a patient's body and allows these professionals to administer drugs and educate patients on their medications. Nurses can gain an understanding of the medications that they must use on their patients as they are healing. They can use their knowledge to discuss side effects that certain drugs have...
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The world of health is undergoing a significant evolution. There is a tangible sense of urgency and great expectation that affects everyone: patients, healthcare organisations, doctors and companies.
Pharmaceutical Resilience offers us a compass to orient ourselves in this growing complexity, indicating the cardinal points and helping us find a path to follow in this historic moment, which is the result of the convergence of at least three macrophenomena...
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As a full-time research consultant at the N.I.M.H. Center of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies, Dr. Tod Mikuriya discovered just how much the English and American medical profession has known about cannabis for the past 130 years. Having access to priceless original documents, he has compiled this authoritative and fascinating collection of medical papers on marijuana. From 1839, when the herb was first introduced into the Western pharmacopoeia, to...
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Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable, century-spanning history, and you can trace the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine.
‹Beginning with opium, the "joy...
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El libro busca, en primer término, explicar teórica y empíricamente el sentido de un conjunto de cambios ocurridos en el sector del Big Pharma-asociados a fenómenos de fusiones, adquisiciones o expansión de derechos de propiedad intelectual-que dan cuenta de los mecanismos utilizados por grandes empresas farmacéuticas transnacionales para preservar su monopolio sobre el mercado de las medicinas en un contexto caracterizado por una intensa competencia...
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Dan’s son sens le plus restreint, la pharmacologie est la science des médicaments. Mais une telle définition ne peut actuellement satisfaire un pharmacologue, car la différence entre médicament, poison et substance jouant un rle hormonal ou neurohumoral n'est pas claire et dépend souvent de la dose utilisée et de l'orientation de la recherche...
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