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This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that
make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern
pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively
and accessible way, aiming at a general audience that combines
historical narrative with fascinating case studies on drug
discovery and commercialization, from the rat poison that became
warfarin, to a cardiovascular treatment that was turned into
Viagra. In a non-partisan way it also examines some of the less
noble manifestations of corporate behavior, concluding with an
agenda for reform.It is hard to think of anything nobler than to
bring to the world a medicine that saves lives. And over 140 years
of history, the pharmaceutical industry has produced a range of
remarkable products, albeit typically with external scientific and
financial support. Making medicines is a very big and profit-driven
business, and the industry does not always make the right products
for the right people, or at the right prices.The industry wields
immense power over lives and economies. How has it risen to this
position of dominance? Are the interests of the industry and the
public in balance? What should we admire about the industry? What
should we criticise and seek to change? The importance of this book
lies in the fact that we are all stakeholders in this industry
whether or not we own shares, so we all need answers to these
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Theory and Applications of Nonparenteral Nanomedicines presents
thoroughly analysed data and results regarding the potential of
nanomedicines conceived by diverse non-parenteral routes. In the
context of nanotechnology-based approaches, various routes such as
oral, pulmonary, transdermal, delivery and local administration of
nanomedicine have been utilized for the delivery of nanomedicine.
This book discusses the non-parenteral application of nanomedicine,
its regulatory implications, application of mucus penetrating
nanocarrier, and detailed chapters on development of nanomedicines
developed for drug delivery by various route. Beginning with a
brief introduction to the non-parenteral delivery of nanomedicine
and the safety and regulatory implications of the nanoformulations,
further chapters discuss the physiology of the biological barriers,
the specificity of the nanocarriers as well as their multiple
applications. Theory and Applications of Nonparenteral
Nanomedicines helps clinical researchers, researchers working in
pharmaceutical industries, graduate students, and anyone working in
the development of non-parenteral nanomedicines to understand the
recent progress in the design and development of nanoformulations
compatible with non-parenteral applications.
Climate change and environmental pollution remain two primary areas
of concern in today's world. These detrimental influences continue
to have a strong impact on various aspects of humanity,
specifically public health in tropical regions. Researchers have
seen neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affected by climate change
and anthropogenic impacts. Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts
on Neglected Tropical Diseases is a pivotal reference source that
provides vital research on the association of environmental
pollutants and global warming with viruses in tropical regions.
While highlighting topics such as pathogenicity, travel impact, and
economic impacts, this publication explores the developments and
trends in these areas of medicine and ecology, as well as
prevention strategies to be used for educational and sensitization
purposes. This book is ideally designed for doctors, medical
practitioners, ecologists, epidemiologists, environmentalists,
world health organizations, researchers, biologists, policymakers,
academicians, and students.
The realisation that human, animal, viral and bacterial genomes all
contain over-representation of higher-order quadruplex structures
in regulatory and other pharmacologically-useful regions, has led
to a large number of studies aimed at exploiting this findings for
therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. Quadruplex-binding small
molecules are starting to be evaluated in human clinical trials.
Approaches to the Purification, Analysis and Characterization of
Antibody-Based Therapeutics provides the interested and informed
reader with an overview of current approaches, strategies and
considerations relating to the purification, analytics and
characterization of therapeutic antibodies and related molecules.
While there are obviously other books published in and around this
subject area, they seem to be either older (c.a. year 2000
publication date) or are more limited in scope. The book will
include an extensive bibliography of the published literature in
the respective areas covered. It is not, however, intended to be a
how-to methods book.
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has
published articles on the most fundamental of therapeutic concepts:
change. However, the BCPSG s evolving interests and points of focus
have been wide-ranging, if always thematically linked by a
connection to change. With Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying
Paradigm, the evolution of the group s thinking and work has been
collected into a book for the first time.
The Group s initial areas of research have since been recognized
as central to psychotherapeutic thought. For example, the BCPSG has
long focused on bringing insights from the study of infancy to bear
on thinking about psychoanalytic processes. In its earliest work,
the group looked to early development as a source of inspiration
and knowledge, and as a possible way to illuminate change processes
in psychotherapy. Today, developmental researchers and
neuroscientists increasingly locate keys to psychological health
and development in the earliest interactions between mother and
infant. This book, which consists of significant papers by the
BCPSG, traces the group s contributions to psychoanalytic topics of
note, including: the location of the implicit, the creation of
meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective
experience of the therapist. The book also includes new
introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the
original intent and reception of each article. Change in
Psychotherapy presents the essential findings from an
internationally acclaimed group of analysts in a single volume for
the first time. In this, it is a truly groundbreaking work."
Computer vision and machine intelligence paradigms are prominent in
the domain of medical image applications, including computer
assisted diagnosis, image guided radiation therapy, landmark
detection, imaging genomics, and brain connectomics. Medical image
analysis and understanding are daunting tasks owing to the massive
influx of multi-modal medical image data generated during routine
clinal practice. Advanced computer vision and machine intelligence
approaches have been employed in recent years in the field of image
processing and computer vision. However, due to the unstructured
nature of medical imaging data and the volume of data produced
during routine clinical processes, the applicability of these
meta-heuristic algorithms remains to be investigated. Advanced
Machine Vision Paradigms for Medical Image Analysis presents an
overview of how medical imaging data can be analyzed to provide
better diagnosis and treatment of disease. Computer vision
techniques can explore texture, shape, contour and prior knowledge
along with contextual information, from image sequence and 3D/4D
information which helps with better human understanding. Many
powerful tools have been developed through image segmentation,
machine learning, pattern classification, tracking, and
reconstruction to surface much needed quantitative information not
easily available through the analysis of trained human specialists.
The aim of the book is for medical imaging professionals to acquire
and interpret the data, and for computer vision professionals to
learn how to provide enhanced medical information by using computer
vision techniques. The ultimate objective is to benefit patients
without adding to already high healthcare costs.
Alginates in Drug Delivery explores the vital precepts, basic and
fundamental aspects of alginates in pharmaceutical sciences,
biopharmacology, and in the biotechnology industry. The use of
natural polymers in healthcare applications over synthetic polymers
is becoming more prevalent due to natural polymers'
biocompatibility, biodegradability, economic extraction and ready
availability. To fully utilize and harness the potential of
alginates, this book presents a thorough understanding of the
synthesis, purification, and characterization of alginates and
their derivative. This book collects, in a single volume, all
relevant information on alginates in health care, including recent
advances in the field. This is a highly useful resource for
pharmaceutical scientists, health care professionals and regulatory
scientists actively involved in the pharmaceutical product and
process development of natural polymer containing drug delivery, as
well as postgraduate students and postdoctoral research fellows in
pharmaceutical sciences.
Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Providers and the
Clinical Laboratory in Understanding Who Is Vulnerable covers the
important aspects that are essential in fighting the opioid
epidemic. This succinct reference highlights how the toxicology
laboratory can play a vital role in fighting the opioid epidemic by
implementing a robust system for drugs of abuse testing as well as
drug testing in pain management patients. It targets health care
professionals in a technical manner, discussing polymorphisms of
important genes that may be associated with increased vulnerability
of alcohol and drug addiction to an individual.
Immunopathology, Volume 107 in the Advances in Virus Research
series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an
international board of authors. Viral Immunopathology will cover
how the immune system, innate or adaptive, is often at the root of
viral pathogenesis. This is true in diverse host systems including
vertebrates, plants and insects. This volume will present the
latest findings in this interesting and important area of research,
and will include human, plant, fish, and insect viruses. Different
kingdoms have evolved very diverse immune responses to virus
infection but the common theme - namely, that effects of viruses on
host immune systems can condition the induction of viral disease -
will unify this concept across kingdoms.
Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics
International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry
Series. Understanding the current systems of psychology and
psychiatry is profoundly important. So is exploring alternatives.
The Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series presents
solicited chapters from international experts on a wide variety of
underexplored subjects. This is a series for mental health
researchers, teachers, and practitioners, for parents and
interested lay readers, and for anyone trying to make sense of
anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties. Critiquing
the Psychiatric Model sets out to present a clear picture of the
current "mental disorder paradigm," one that claims an ability to
"diagnose and treat mental disorders" and that provides
"medication" as its primary treatment. Critiquing the Psychiatric
Model traces the history of the psychiatric model and its
"diagnostic manual" and identifies its flaws and problem areas by
presenting more than twenty solicited chapters from experts
worldwide.
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