WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 28: U.S. President Barack Obama walks on stage before speaking about health care during the "Health Action 2011" conference on January 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. The Health ...
At a time when concerns about opioids and their effects are ever present, a fascinating new book out this month by a UB faculty member puts these and the myriad other psychoactive drugs in the human ...
Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction. By Matt Richtel and Meridith Kohut A new series on ...
Medication use during pregnancy, lactation and early childhood remains one of the least studied and most consequential - areas of pharmacology. More than ...
Drug discovery remains unevenly distributed worldwide. While many countries in the Global South carry a high burden of infectious, neglected, inflammatory, ...
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have discovered how to target a class of molecular switches called GTPases that are involved in a myriad of diseases—from Parkinson’s ...
Pharmacokinetics examines the journey of a drug through the body, encompassing absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME). Following administration, a compound must traverse biological ...
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of antiepileptic medications plays a critical role in optimising treatment for individuals with epilepsy. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) exhibit considerable ...