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Books in Drug dispensing

This portfolio covers pharmacy practice, medication counseling, and dispensing technologies. Supporting pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, it features best practices, safety protocols, and patient-centered communication strategies. These resources promote accurate medication delivery, adherence, and safety, ensuring optimal therapeutic outcomes in diverse healthcare settings.

  • Dosage Forms, Formulation Developments and Regulations

    Recent and Future Trends in Pharmaceutics, Volume 1
    • 1st Edition
    • Amit Kumar Nayak + 1 more
    • English
    Dosage Forms, Formulation Developments and Regulations, Volume One in the Recent and Future Trends in Pharmaceutics series, explores aspects of pharmaceutics, with an original approach focused on technology, novelties and future trends in the field. The book discusses the most recent developments in pharmaceutical preformulation and formulation studies, biopharmaceutics and novel pharmaceutical formulations, regulatory affairs, and good manufacturing practices. Exciting areas such as formulation strategies, optimization techniques, the biopharmaceutical classification system, and pharmaceutical aerosols are included. The field of pharmaceutics is highly dynamic and rapidly expanding day-by-day, so it demands a variety of amplified efforts for designing and developing pharmaceutical processes and formulation strategies. This is an essential reference for researchers in academia and industry as well as advanced graduate students in pharmaceutics.

  • Pharmaceutics

    Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice
    • 2nd Edition
    • Alekha Dash + 1 more
    • English
    Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition is a valuable textbook covering the role and application of pharmaceutics within pharmacy practice. This updated resource is geared toward meeting and incorporating the current curricular guidelines on pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education. It includes a number of student-friendly features, including chapter objectives and summaries, practical examples, case studies, numerous images and key-concept text boxes. Two new chapters are included, as well as a new end of chapter section covering "critical reflections and practice applications". Divided into three sections – Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics; Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics; and Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics – this new edition covers all aspects of pharmaceutics and providing a single and compelling source for students.

  • Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceuticals

    • 1st Edition
    • Ravindra Pratap Singh + 3 more
    • English
    Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Sciences presents various drug-delivery techniques that utilize nanotechnology for the biomedical domain, highlighting both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The book provides important facts and detailed studies on different promising nanocarriers like liposomes, exosomes and virus-based nanocarriers. Moreover, it explores these nanocarriers' utilization in the therapeutic applications of various diseases such as cancer, inflammation, neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer's disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and inflammatory bowel disease. In addition, the book describes how nanotechnology has efficiently overtaken conventional dosage forms and provided comfort and ease to patients. Relevant information regarding market trends, patents and social-economic factors are also provided, making this the perfect reference for doctors, researchers and scientists working in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, biotechnology, nanobiotechnology and the pharmaceutical sciences.

  • Strategies to Modify the Drug Release from Pharmaceutical Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Marcos Luciano Bruschi
    • English
    Since the earliest dosage forms to modern drug delivery systems, came a great development and growth of knowledge with respect to drug delivery. Strategies to Modify the Drug Release from Pharmaceutical Systems will address principles, systems, applications and advances in the field.It will be principally a textbook and a reference source of strategies to modify the drug release. Moreover, the characterization, mathematical and physicochemical models, applications and the systems will be discussed.

  • Pharmaceutics

    Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Alekha Dash + 1 more
    • English
    Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice is an engaging textbook that covers all aspects of pharmaceutics with emphasis on the basic science and its application to pharmacy practice. Based on curricular guidelines mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), this book incorporates laboratory skills by identifying portions of each principle that can be used in a clinical setting. In this way, instructors are able to demonstrate their adherence to ACPE standards and objectives, simply by using this book. Written in a straightforward and student-friendly manner, Pharmaceutics enables students to gain the scientific foundation to understand drug physicochemical properties, practical aspects of dosage forms and drug delivery systems, and the biological applications of drug administration. Key ideas are illustrated and reinforced through chapter objectives and chapter summaries. A companion website features resources for students and instructors, including videos illustrating difficult processes and procedures as well as practice questions and answers. Instructor resources include Powerpoint slides and a full-color image bank. This book is intended for students in pharmaceutical science programs taking pharmaceutics or biopharmaceutics courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.