"Anyone hoping to get into a pharmacy school must take the PCAT-the Pharmacy College Admission Test, a standardized exam that measures the aptitude and skills of pharmacy school applicants. Peterson's Master the PCAT, 2nd Edition offers up-to-date, essential test prep for each of the subtests on the redesigned PCAT: Writing, Biological Processes, Chemical Processes, Biochemistry, Critical Reading, and Quantitative Reasoning. Packed with practice questions,...

The Top 300 Drugs Pocket Reference Guide serves as a portable reference to learn the essential information for the most commonly prescribed drugs. This on-the-go resource details the brand name, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, dosage form, common use, and other clinical details for each drug. Whether you're a pharmacy student or healthcare professional, this guide will serve as an effective resource to learn the basic characteristics of...

This key document, produced by the BFS IOA, outlines important aspects on operation of BFS technology to ensure both compliance with cGMP regulations and the production of drug products of the appropriate quality, safety and efficacy. The Points to Consider document provides recommendations specific to the operation of Blow-Fill-Seal technology for the manufacture of sterile pharmaceuticals and liquid medical devices. One of the aims of this document...

Dans les prochaines années, la pharmacie devra faire face à un obstacle difficile à surmonter: la perte de rentabilité. Ce livre a pour but d'aider le propriétaire de la pharmacie à améliorer sa composante commerciale. 200 idées au service du pharmacien avec toutes les variables à prendre en compte dans leur développement professionnel.

This Book contains the basic requirements which is required in Quality Control Laboratory

Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred look at the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist Jean-Marc Bovee answers all of your pharmacy-related questions and discusses real-life situations, problems, and solutions. If you are a patient, gain...

On December 2, 2004, Gwen Olsen’s niece Megan committed suicide by setting herself on fire and ended her tortured life as a victim of the adverse effects of prescription drugs. Olsen’s poignant autobiographical journey through the darkness of mental illness and the catastrophic consequences that lurk in medicine cabinets around the country offers an honest glimpse into alarming statistics and a health care system ranked last among nineteen industrialized...

From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn't born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries. This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential...

The Pharmacy Calculation Workbook provides 250 calculation questions to prepare for the demanding NAPLEX and PTCB Exam. Master exam topics with intensive practice in the areas you'll find on the test. All questions are test-level difficulty and focused solely on helping you pass. Whether you're challenging the exam for the first time or trying again after an unsuccessful attempt, you will learn the critical skills needed to master the exam.Included...

For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to Queen Victoria, humans have abused all sorts of drugs in the name of religion, tradition, and recreation, including such "controlled substances" as chocolate,...