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Drug Use and Misuse: A Community Health Perspective provides students with an introduction to the biological, psychological, and legal aspects of drug use and misuse through the lens of community health and discusses the impact of drug use and misuse…

This book is the first and to date only compendium on the history, pharmacology, toxicology, and clinic of acetylsalicylic acid – not only the best known, but probably the most successful drug in medical history. Written by one of the world's leading…

The discovery of new drugs is one of pharmaceutical research's most exciting and challenging tasks. Unfortunately, the conventional drug discovery procedure is chronophagous and seldom successful; furthermore, new drugs are needed to address our…

Over the past two decades, considerable research efforts in academia and industry have gone into pharmaceutical cocrystals. As a result, a large number of studies on both fundamental aspects and applications of cocrystallisation have been published,…

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is one of the most successful polymers that has been used
to produce medicines, such as drug carriers (DC). This is one of the few polymers that the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for human…

The idea of combining drugs and diagnostics in oncology is not new. When the selective estrogen-receptor modulator tamoxifen was developed in the 1970s for the treatment of breast cancer, data
on estrogen-receptor status were correlated with the…

Drug-induced hypersensitivity reactions play a prominent role among adverse drug effects, and constitute a major health problem. It has been suggested that up to 6% of all hospital admissions are related to these reactions. Biomarkers, especially…

With the avalanche of biological sequences generated in the postgenomic age, molecular science is facing an unprecedented challenge, i.e., how to timely utilize the huge amount of data to benefit human beings. Stimulated by such a challenge, a rapid…