Medicines are perhaps the greatest weapons of the mankind to fight diseases and death, but are double edged weapons. They help recovering from illness and restoring health if used properly; but can harm if not used appropriately, even causing life threatening situations including death. Inappropriate medicine use is unnecessary wastage of resources. Medicines have helped increasing life expectancy but in some situations they have harmed too. The antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective due resistance developed by random use. The book provides guidance on using medicines appropriately in a simple and easily understandable language. The book intends to empower the readers with skill and knowledge to make informed decisions about how to use medicines (including when not to use them) and get the maximum benefit. It helps to understand the importance of medicines inindividual's health. The second edition of the book is updated with the new information on medicines as available. Many new themes are introduced with value addition like cartoons. It is a comprehensive medicine user guide for common public. A must for every one!
The textbook deals with all aspects ranging from concept to practice of pharmacovigilance. It covers the historical background in the evolution of this emerging science, India's and global scenario, science of pharmacovigilance, and pharmacovigilance of Indian system of medicine. The outstanding features are: -Written in easy understandable style. -Case studies on drug withdrawal and causality analysis. -Key messages giving the gist of each chapter. In brief the book is all about learning, developing competencies, practicing and building career in safety monitoring of medicines.
The outstanding features are: -Use of SI Units like all other fields of Science -Questions and Answers provided at the end of each experiment to help the students understanding the application of each experiment and face viva voce easily during practical examination -Principles and Experimental Procedures written in a easily adoptable style Some experiments are revised added in this edition.
Pharmaceutics, science and art of making medicines, is a primary subject in any pharmacy programme. The present text orients the pharmaceutics practical to suit the need of Pharm D programme students and the teachers as well. Realizing the educational background of just entered first year students, the text attempts to present the entire Pharmacy Council of India syllabus in a simple, understandable and performable manner. The outstanding features are: -Questions and Answers provided at the end of each experiment to help the students understanding the use of each preparation/experiment and easily face viva voce during practical examination. -Patient counseling points for each of the preparation. -Principles and Experimental Procedures written in an easily adoptable style.
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