Tag: Pharmaceutical Books

The book Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Distributors is written by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. GMP principles and guidelines are adopted by the European Commission under the powers conferred by Council Directive 2001/83/EC. This is to ensure that all medicinal products for human use manufactured or imported into the Community, including medicinal products intended for export, are manufactured in accordance with GMP principles and guidelines. The goal of GMP is to ensure that products are consistently produced and controlled to particular quality standards. Commission Directive 2003/94/EC (the "GMP Directive") sets out the requirements related to the implementation of GMP for medicinal products for human use (currently including investi...

The book Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is written by Ruth Nemire, and Karen Kier. This manual is one of the few texts that you will use throughout your pharmacy school education. So grab a pen or pencil and start making notes in the margins, keep track of the "pearls" you learn in class here in a book where you can find them later. There is no one right way to use this manual. The important thing is that it doesn't sit on your shelf like a required text, never to be opened. You bought the book; take the time to see what information is contained within. Think of it as your roadmap for practicing courses; calculations, kinetics, drug information, medical terminology, and lab data book all in one. Teachers/preceptors often find themselves looking for material that will quickly familiarize ...

The book Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Data Analysis Concepts and Application is written by Johan Gabrielsson and Daniel Weiner. The fifth edition of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Data Analysis: Concepts and Applications continue the central thesis of the first four editions: How do we move from data to knowledge most effectively? That can probably be done by exposing ourselves to a lot of data sets and real-life situations and solving these problems with pencil, paper, and a computer. Previous editions of the book have served as teaching aids for a number of basic and advanced courses within academia and at numerous pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies around the world. Therefore, substantial effort has been invested in the new pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics...

The book Palliative Care Formulary is written by Robert Twycross, Andrew Wilcock, and Paul Howard. PCF's target audience includes physicians, nurses, and pharmacists involved in the care of patients receiving hospice/palliative care. PCF is a basic textbook for registrars of palliative medicine in the UK. It is used in some areas to meet the NHS National Cancer Standards requirement for specialist palliative care services within a Cancer Center and Network to have a basic palliative care drug formulary and is mentioned in many official documents of health care, e.g. NICE CKS guidelines. The production of a book of this nature depends on the help and advice of numerous colleagues, both past and present. We gratefully acknowledge the support of clinical colleagues and members of the palliat...

The Book Handbook Of Modern Pharmaceutical Analysis is written by Satinder Ahuja and Stephen Scypinski. Today, modern pharmaceutical analysis involves much more than the analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients or formulated products. There are many reasons for this change, one of which is our ability to better understand the physicochemical properties of pharmaceutical compounds through the use of advanced instrumental methods. In addition, there is a need to ensure the quality of pharmaceutical products throughout their shelf life. This requires us to study drug substance interactions with excipients in the presence of residual solvents, as well as other potential degradation reactions that may occur in the formulated product over a period of time under various stress conditions (th...

The book Drugs in Use is written by Linda J. Dodds. When I first conceived this book in the late 1980s, cutting-edge pharmacy practice was taking place primarily in hospitals, and "clinical pharmacist" was a somewhat elitist term applied to the small number of hospital pharmacists who contributed to direct patient care. patients on hospital wards, but were rarely involved in writing the prescription or independently adjusting drug dosage. Twenty years later, most practicing pharmacists can fairly be described as "clinical" pharmacists. Pharmacists are independent prescribers in a wide range of clinical areas and work under the direction of the patient group to supply and administer medications without a prescription. In hospitals, consultant pharmacists have their own patient caseload and...