background: poisoning is one of the main causes of visits to emergency departments and hospitals in iran. drug and poison information centers (dpic) are reliable sources to guide poisoned patients and provide information about pharmaceutical agents. this study was designed to analyze recorded phone calls to iran dpics during 2011-2012. methods: this was a retrospective study on phone calls to d...

nitrofurazone is one of the antibacterial nitrofuran agents used topically for skin infections. the drug is effective on the majority of infectious microorganisms. because of the importance of this drug in clinic, in this study various methods of synthesis of nitrofurazone were examined and the most appropriate method, applicable to pharmaceutical industry was chosen and optimized from the poin...

Swelling agents are hydrophilic crosslinked polymers, which swell from 10 to 1,000 times their own weight when placed in an aqueous medium. Depending on their swelling properties, these materials have been exploited in developing three different classes of materials in pharmaceutical industries, i.e. swellable matrices, superdisintegrants and swelling devices. Since their development, these pha...

Virtually all new drugs are introduced, evaluated, and marketed under the control of the pharmaceutical industry and general supervision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The clinical investigator must look to the pharmaceutical industry for support of studies of drugs, and the industry, in turn, needs the investigator to evaluate agents before FDA approval and to present findings in t...