Pharmacology

Abstract The road to modern day β-blockers has by no means been unhindered. The creation of humble propranolol in the 1960’s has lead to current life saving therapeutics, regardless of the opposition encountered throughout the journey. The discovery of various β-blockers original compounds may have followed similar paths, but it is the physiological consequences of the drugs that set them apart. Beta-adrenoceptors bind endogenous neurotransmitters such as adrenaline and noradrenaline. It is the…

I. INTRODUCTION  Off Label Prescription The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a key role in protecting the public health by ensuring the safety and efficacy of foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Before a prescription drug comes into the market, it must go through a series of rigorous clinical trials. Once a drug has been approved for some indication, the FDA has almost no legal control over how that drug is actually prescribed1. This is because the FDA has no legal authority…

Pharmacology – Unit 2 Assignment – Rhonda Reed Unit 2 Assignment is worth 50 points You are the billing and coding manager on the Internal Medicine floor at General Hospital. The patient is a 52-year-old woman with diabetes who has cellulitis from a scrape to her right shin. You are visiting the patient before she is discharged and note that an IV dose of penicillin has just begun to be infused. Her chart indicates she is allergic to penicillin. About 5 minutes after the drug has started…

INTRODUCTION Oral Controlled Release Drug Delivery Systems1, 2: Oral controlled release drug delivery is a drug delivery system that provides*give the continuous oral delivery of drugs at predictable and reproducible kinetics for a predetermined period throughout the course of GI transit and also the system that target the delivery of a drug to a specific region within the GI tract for either local or systemic action. All the pharmaceutical products formulated for systemic delivery via*throw…

Introduction: According to Drugs.com, “Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It works by reducing hormones that cause inflammation and pain in the body.” This includes conditions such as headaches, painful menstrual periods, toothaches, back pain, dental pain, migraines, arthritis and any minor injuries. Ibuprofen is also used to treat and reduce fever as well and is typically administered to individuals, both adults and children ages 6 months and older. Ibuprofen has been…

Classified as a complex brain disease, SUD is treatable, according to the USA National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) principles of treatment [NIDA, 2008]. Given the aforementioned multiple factors, contributing to the development of SUD, its complex presentation, and associated disease burden; treatment of SUD is rated as significantly challenging. Delivering effective SUD treatment and care requires a comprehensive response, illustrated as core services and interventions delivered, within a…

Do pharmaceutical companies really care about us? It’s crazy to believe that people you trust, don’t care for you one bit. Big Pharma, a group of pharmaceutical companies connected with the government gets large amounts of money from the people of the world; this conspiracy that people believe can be proven as factual through research over industry funded vs. government funded pharmaceuticals and the way the government finds a way to pay less and receive more money. It’s not easy to clearly…

America, a land founded with opportunity and wealth in mind and while I believe our founding fathers wanted to see growth and innovation I doubt it was to be at the expense of its people. Today the typical view of crime and how it affects our economy is focused on street crimes, however what many don 't realize is the number of corporate crimes occurring today play a more detrimental role in our economy and creates more victims than street crime. The types of corporate violations are vast and…

Safety Process: Six Rights and Three Checks The administration of medication is an integral component of the healthcare provision in the modern world (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). It is necessary for nurses to understand the fundamental ideals that seek to safeguard patient safety and ultimately ensure safe outcomes in relation to the administration of drugs (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). The observance of the Six Rights and Three Checks principles are an example of measures that are…

In this reading regarding pharmaceutical industries reveal some shocking facts about how contaminated prescription drugs are poisoning the public, since the scandal, it has made policy makers extremely difficult for policing the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs. By statistic, our massive domestic prescription drug industry sold 294 billion worth of drugs worldwide and 177.5 billion domestically, and it has helped patients from various disease. However, beside the huge success of…