BACKGROUND Each day, millions of health consumers seek drug-related information on the Web. Despite some efforts in linking related resources, drug information is largely scattered in a wide variety of websites of different quality and credibility. METHODS As a step toward providing users with integrated access to multiple trustworthy drug resources, we aim to develop a method capable of iden...

AIM to evaluate the appropriateness of drug administration in elderly patients hospitalized at the Internal Medicine Ward dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital based on indication, dosage, duration of treatment, potential adverse events, contraindication, and potential drug interactions. METHODS a cross sectional observational study was performed in patients aged over >or= 60 years old staying at t...

Dissolution testing of the drug formulation introduced in 1960 since then the importance of dissolution test has grown rapidly as have the number of tests and demands in quality control laboratories. Dissolution testing is an official test used by pharmacopeias for evaluating drug release of solid and semisolid dosage forms. The main applications of the dissolution testing include biopharmaceut...

Drug prescription errors are a common cause of adverse incidents and may lead to adverse outcomes, sometimes in subtle ways, being compounded by circumstances or further errors. Therefore, it is important that veterinarians issue the correct drug at the correct dose. Using two or more prescribed drugs may lead to drug interactions. Some drug interactions are very harmful and may have potential ...

Studies pertaining to drug-DNA interactions in treating a disease efficiently have taken an important place in recent times. Murthy and colleagues were active in correlating the drug activity, with physical parameters like refractivity, susceptibility, molecular electron ionization cross-section and the dosage. The molecular polarizability, diamagnetic susceptibility and molecular electron ioni...

background rational prescription is a considerable issue which must be paid more attention to assess the behavior of prescribers. the aim of this study was to examine factors affecting family physicians’ drug prescribing.   methods we carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in khuzestan province, iran in 2011. nine hundred eighty-six prescriptions of 421 family physicians (including 3...