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Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy
Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemistrys, and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of medication....
 that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity
New chemical entity

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new chemical entity is a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by FDA in any other application submitted under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act."...
 (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological
Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function....
 properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient.






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Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy
Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemistrys, and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of medication....
 that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity
New chemical entity

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new chemical entity is a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by FDA in any other application submitted under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act."...
 (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological
Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function....
 properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient. Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form
Dosage form

A dosage form is the physical form of a dose of medication, such as a capsule or injection . The route of administration is dependent on the dosage form of a given drug....
. Branches of pharmaceutics include:
  • Pharmacokinetics
    Pharmacokinetics

    Pharmacokinetics is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to the determination of the fate of substances administered externally to a living organism....
  • Pharmacodynamics
    Pharmacodynamics

    Pharmacodynamics is the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on the body or on microorganisms or parasites within or on the body and the mechanisms of drug action and the relationship between drug concentration and effect....
  • Pharmacogenomics
    Pharmacogenomics

    Pharmacogenomics is the branch of pharmacology which deals with the influence of genetics variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a drug's efficacy or toxicity....
  • Pharmaceutical formulation
    Pharmaceutical formulation

    Pharmaceutical formulation, in pharmaceutics, is the process in which different chemical substances, including the active drug, are combined to produce a final medication....
  • Pharmaceutical technology


See also

  • Pharmacognosy
    Pharmacognosy

    Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sour...
  • Pharmaceutical company
    Pharmaceutical company

    The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies can deal in Generic drug and/or brand medications....
  • Nicholas Culpeper
    Nicholas Culpeper

    Nicholas Culpeper was an England botany, herbalist, physician, and astrology. His published books, The English Physitian and the Complete Herbal , contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge....
     - 17th Century English Physician who translated and used 'pharmocological texts'.