Essentials Of Pharmacotherapeutics

Today search for new therapeutic agents can be regarded as a collaborative exercise between the pharmaceutical industry,""drug control authorities, health services, and academic institutions. Drug research and development (R&D) continues, leading to a ‘drug and information explosion”. John MacArthur rightly states, ‘‘We are living in a fast-paced, high-tech, informationoverloaded culture. Stress-related disorders in man are on the rise. Finding new drugs involves evaluation of the ‘safety’ and ‘efficacy’ of the agent to be finally used in man.

This is the basis of Clinical Pharmacology. Advances in the field of designer drugs, recombinant DNA technology, gene therapy, and the advent of monoclonal antibodies for treating disease has provided many new, effective, and life-saving drugs

The main features of the book are as follows:

1.  Advances in the field of designer drugs, recombinant DNA technology, gene therapy, and the advent of monoclonal antibodies for treating disease has provided many new, effective, and life-saving drugs

1. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY

2. DRUGS ACTING ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS

3. DRUGS ACTING ON THE PERIPHERAL

4.DRUGS ACTING ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR

5. DRUGS ACTING ON THE HAEMOPOIETIC

6. DRUGS ACTING ON THE GENITOURINARY

7. DRUGS ACTING ON THE ENDOCRINE

8. THE VITAMINS

9. SYSTEMIC ANTI-INFECTIVE

10.LOCAL ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS

11. AUTACOIDS

12. DRUGS ACTING ON THE GASTROINTESTINAL

13. DRUGS ACTING ON THE RESPIRATORY

14. HEAVY METALS AND CHELATING

15. VACCINES AND ANTISERA

16. DIAGNOSTIC AGENTS, HYPERBARIC