"Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a...

"Most parents have worried about the side effects and possible long-term consequences of administering a particular medication to their child. The medication may be available over-the-counter, like cough syrup, or it may be prescribed by a doctor, like an antibiotic. Parents want to know: Is the medication safe? Is it effective? Will it help my child? A pediatric pharmacist for nearly thirty years, Edward A. Bell has spent his career listening carefully...

"Dose-Response Curve" is a part of the college-level Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the pharmacological dose-response curve function and the drug-receptor bindings. It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can learn...

Pharmacology is the scientific study of how drugs interact in the human body. It is an important field of study for individuals because it teaches pharmacologists how certain medications will affect its users. Pharmacologists can use this information to decide whether there is a level of toxicity for patients who are coming into the pharmacy to fill a prescription. If it is possible that a medication can cause problems in users, based on other prescriptions...

Nursing pharmacology is a class that nurses are required to take before they receive their licenses. The course teaches nurses how various drugs interact in a patient's body and allows these professionals to administer drugs and educate patients on their medications. Nurses can gain an understanding of the medications that they must use on their patients as they are healing. They can use their knowledge to discuss side effects that certain drugs have...

The author Steven Kotler and high-performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating how Silicon Valley executives, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition.-- Adapted from book jacket.

As a full-time research consultant at the N.I.M.H. Center of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies, Dr. Tod Mikuriya discovered just how much the English and American medical profession has known about cannabis for the past 130 years. Having access to priceless original documents, he has compiled this authoritative and fascinating collection of medical papers on marijuana. From 1839, when the herb was first introduced into the Western pharmacopoeia, to...

Dan’s son sens le plus restreint, la pharmacologie est la science des médicaments. Mais une telle définition ne peut actuellement satisfaire un pharmacologue, car la différence entre médicament, poison et substance jouant un rle hormonal ou neurohumoral n'est pas claire et dépend souvent de la dose utilisée et de l'orientation de la recherche...

When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming? science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar. By rebooting our hard-wired patterns of thinking - through so-called 'altered states of consciousness' - we can gain new perspectives into ourselves and the world around us. From shamans in Peru to tech workers in Silicon Valley, Kingsland provides a fascinating tour through lucid...

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