background: to study the pattern of acute chemical and pharmaceutical poisoning in ahmadabad, gujarat, india. methods: this was a prospective study of patients with chemical and pharmaceutical poisoning who were admitted to the emergency department of civil hospital ahmadabad, from 1st october 2006 to 30th september 2007. socio-demographic details, intention of poisoning, type of poison, durati...

This paper deals with the various aspects of commonly used flavouring agents for the preparation of medicaments.

In accordance with the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC), excipients are any component used during production procedure or included in a finished medicinal formulation but which is not an active ingredient prodrug. The USP-NF defines Forty different types of additives for usage medicines. Another classes, organoleptic compliance, gives medicines flavor and color. Medicine m...

The need for new antimicrobial agents is greater than ever because of the emergence of multidrug resistance in common pathogens, the rapid emergence of new infections, and the potential for use of multidrug-resistant agents in bioweapons. Paradoxically, some pharmaceutical companies have indicated that they are curtailing anti-infective research programs. We evaluated the United States Food and...