This book is intended to serve as a resource for analysts in developing and troubleshooting sample preparation methods.  These are critical activities in providing accurate and reliable data throughout the lifecycle of a drug product.  This book is divided into four parts:•          Part One covers dosage form and diluent properties that impact sample preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms and the importance of sampling considerations in generating data representative of the drug product batch.  •          Part Two reviews specific sample preparation techniques typically used with pharmaceutical dosage forms.•          Part Three discusses sample preparation method development for different types of dosage forms including addressing drug excipient interactions and post extraction considerations, as well as method validation and applying Quality by Design (QbD) principles to sample preparation methods.   •          Part Four examines additional topics in sample preparation including automation, investigating aberrant potency results, green chemistry considerations for sample preparation and the ideal case where no sample preparation is required for sample analysis.

The fifth edition of Pharmaceutical Practice has been totally overhauled and restructured to bring the contents completely up to date and to reflect emerging new roles for pharmacists both within the traditional employment areas of hospital and community pharmacy, as well as other developing roles supporting the public health agenda, governance, risk management, prescribing and pharmacoeconomics. It covers a wide range of subjects relevant to pharmacy practice, including communication skills, managing a business, quality assurance, dispensing, calculations, packaging, storage and labeling of medicines, sterilization, prescriptions, hospital-based services, techniques and treatments, adverse drug reactions, cost-benefit, and medicines management.

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Pharmaceutics is one of the most diverse subject areas in all of pharmaceutical science. In brief, it is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms for medicines. An understanding of pharmaceutics is therefore vital to all pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists who are involved in converting a drug or a potential drug into a medicine that can be delivered safely, efficiently and conveniently to the patient.Professor Aulton's Pharmaceutics has become established as the clearest, most comprehensive textbook on this subject. The book provides pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students with the latest information on all aspects of pharmaceutics.provides a logical, comprehensive account of drug design and manufactureincludes the science of formulation and drug deliverydesigned and written for newcomers to the design of dosage formstwo new chapters on the principles and practice of sterilizationdosage-form design and delivery material thoroughly updatedproduct stability and stability testing of medicinal products section totally rewritten and expanded to include more of the relevant chemistryreflects current and future use of biotechnology products throughoutchanges in our understanding of biopharmaceutics, certain areas of drug delivery and the significance of the solid state all reflectednew page size and designnew photographs of equipment and apparatus

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Product Description: This comprehensive book covers a wide range of subjects relevant to pharmacy practice, including communication skills, managing a business, quality assurance, dispensing, calculations, packaging, storage and labeling of medicines, sterilization, prescriptions, hospital-based services, techniques and treatments, adverse drug reactions, pharmacoeconomics, and medicines management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Readers will find this book to be the most comprehensive source on pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems. "Physical Pharmacy Capsules" highlight key concepts with boxes, providing easy reference. Reflecting traditional pharmaceutics pedagogy, the new edition is organized by dosage form rather than by route of administration (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Seventeen articles survey from a multidisciplinary perspective site-specific, implantable, oral, and other non-invasive drug delivery systems. The chapters are based on up-to-date information and in several cases form comprehensive reviews of current progress in the field with appropriate glimpses into the future...read more