Pharmaceutics refer to one of the disciplines of pharmacy which deals with the entire area and proces of making a new type of chemical into a medication which can be safely used by the patients and after the use shows good results. Pharmaceutics also is considered as a science that forms the design of the dose of th medicine. There are a number of chemicals in the world which are known for their healing properties but are of no use for the patients in the raw form. In this case the pharmaceutics comes forth to form a drug as per dosage like tablets, capsules, suppositories, injections, drops, inhalation, cream, ointment, powder, gel, lotion and paste.
Medicinal chemistry or the pharmaceutical chemistry refers to the scientific disciplines of pharmacy. This discipline refers to th collaboration between chemistry and pharmacology. In this discipline the designing, synthesis and developing pharmaceutical drugs take place. This part of chemistry identifies the therapeutic qualities in a chemical entity, synthesizes and develops a new chemical entity out of it that is perfect for the use in therapies. This field of science is a interdisciplinary science that includes fields like organic chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, statistics, physical chemistry and Pharmacology. Pharmacology refers to the study of th change caused by the interaction of a drug with a living organism. The area deals with the composition and properties of drug, interactions, toxicology, medical applications, therapy as well as anti pathogenic powers of the drugs.
Pharmacy practice is among the other disciplines of Pharmacy which deals with the development of the role of the professional pharmacists. The areas included in a pharmacy practice often includes
- management of state or the condition of the disease
- different clinical interventions like refusal to dispense any perticular drug, the reccommendation of a new drug in addition to or as replacement of any drug from the list of the drugs for the patient as well as adjustment of dosage.
- Development as a profesional
- patient car
- health psychology
- discovery and evaluation of drugs
- compatibility
- prevention of drug abuse.
All these disciplines of pharmacy intersect with each other as well as wit other fields like biochemistry. For this reason the disciplines can not be distinguished from each other. It is found in most of the occasions that the teams from different disciplines of Pharmacy do their recherches together.
According to some pharmacology can also be considered as the fourth discipline of pharmacy. Pharmacology is an essential part of the study of pharmacy. But the subject is not only specific for the pharmacy. Thus the knowledge about these disciplines of Pharmacy can help one get a better understanding of the health science related profession named Pharmacy.
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