of which 19 are included in the volume under review. This volume contains an excellent introductory chapter by the editors and thorough discussions of the following topics: Physical Chemistry and Chemical Kinetics of Enzymes (E. A. MoelwynHughes) Enzyme Specificity (B. Helferich) Enzymes in Relation to Genes, Viruses, Hormones, Vitamins, and Chemotherapeutic Drug Action (M. G. Sevag, J. S. Gots...

46 INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Winter 2013 Volume 5 Issue 4 A future without antibiotics is deemed to be bleak, if bacteria continue to develop new resistance mechanisms and the pharmaceutical industry have to produce novel classes of antibiotics at the existing rate. Things may change, though. Recently, a UK-based company announced a major collaboration in the fight against resistanc...

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able, but there are others who view the educated man as one who can proceed from the observed facts to his own conclusions. Since the author assumes a thorough knowledge of the preclinical sciences, including anatomical pathology in his reader, one wonders if this reader might not be ready for the more advanced books on function. The printer has come to the aid of the student with an easy-to-re...

Background: Clinical research is a specific phase of the production process in the pharmaceutical industry in which companies test candidate drugs on patients in order to collect clinical evidence about safety and effectiveness.Objective: This paper is an operational research which aimed to support the hypothesis that pharmaceutical clinical research is l...

Introduction: Learning procedural skills is one of the essentialaspects of undergraduate medical education. However, learningprocedural skills in clinical settings is less widely considered.This study aimed to explore the Iranian undergraduate medicalstudents’ perception of learning procedural skills and its outcomesin three universities of medical sciences in Iran...

CONTEXT The growing popularity of less familiar methodologies in medical education research, and the use of related data collection methods, has made it timely to revisit some basic assumptions regarding knowledge and evidence. METHODS This paper outlines four major research paradigms and examines the methodological questions that underpin the development of knowledge through medical educatio...