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GeneralTop 10 pharmaceutical products in 2023 with MoA – ranked!
This following list has the top 10 drugs that have the potential to be game-changers in the field of medicine and provide new hope for patients with serious diseases. They are ranked by the projected USD sales in billions. Drug Company Disease Projected sales (billion USD) Mechanism of action Keytruda Merck & Co. Cancer 24…
Aug 28, 2023
Drug factsMode of Action for Antibiotic Classes – Quick tips
Knowing how do Antibiotics work and fight the infection is an important step for treatment. Resistance is emerging rapidly to most classes and we have to control the use of Antibiotics and avoid misuse or overuse in both community and healthcare society. Developing Antibiotics resistance has many unfavorable outcomes: Increase the rates of mortality and…
Apr 5, 2017
General20 Most Common Pharmaceutical Additives with Examples
A pharmaceutical additive or an excipient is a substance that mixed with an active pharmaceutical ingredient for a specific purpose. I will go through the most common types with examples: It is an agent that prevent the oxidation process to the pharmaceutical preparation. Thus, avoid its deterioration. Examples: Antioxidants as a pharmaceutical additives have two…
Apr 4, 2017
GeneralFood Safety at emergency like power outage
This is how to keep food safe during emergency like power outage. Follow the following steps to help keep the food safe as longer as possible and avoid food loss or getting ill because of unsafe damaged food. Source: foodsafety.gov
Feb 12, 2017
Drug factsList of abused and addicted drugs
Of course whenever we think about drugs of abuse and addiction, some members of the following list came to our mind: Disclaimer : Information and names listed below are for educational & scientific purposes only. Warning : Abusing drugs KILLS! 1. HEROIN Heroin is synthesized from morphine in a relatively simple process. Heroin was…
Sep 23, 2016
Drug factsPCSK9 Inhibitors – the new injectable cholesterol-lowering drugs
When statins are not enough to control your body cholesterol levels, adding PCSK9 Inhibitors may help you to lower your bad cholesterol dramatically! Before inhibiting this enzyme, What does it do ? Liver removes your bad Cholesterol known as LDL (low denisity lipoproteins). Liver catches this LDL cholesterol through a receptors, PCSK9 as en enzyme…
Sep 22, 2016
GeneralPfizer – the house of Anti-Infective drugs
Probably you know about one of the latest acquisitions of the giant US based company Pfizer Inc. Pfizer has acquired small molecules business of Astrazeneca’s anti-infectives. New products to be added to Pfizer Anti-Infective portfolio: Zinforo(ceftaroline fosamil). Zavicefta (CAZ-AVI). Merrem/Meronem(meropenem). ATM-AVI. CXL. In addition to the current Pfizer Anti-Infective found in this video : Source :…
Sep 22, 2016
GeneralThe TOP 25 pharmaceutical drugs in sale 2015 – Infographic
TOP 25 pharmaceutical drugs in sale 2015
Sep 4, 2016
General5 Questions you have to ask before swallowing a medication
Question #1: What do you call this ? Pretty basic, as the pharmacist or technician asking you about your ID or insurance ID, you have to ask him/her about the names of your medications even if you are refilling! Knowing the name of medication is important at least to know what you are going to…
Aug 16, 2016
GeneralPharmaceutical Substances knowledgebase
Long time away from Phartoonz :ermm: due to my personal duties & other projects that I work on. I want to share with all of you a beta version of a pharmaceutical substances database. It has 8000+ drugs & pharmaceutical related substances categorized and formatted for super easy basic data access. Please find it…
May 8, 2016
Pharma InfographicsDo you think you might be depressed ?
How depression looks like? Feeling down, hopeless , anxious and empty ! depression can cause all these symptoms and feelings so basically the best to treat depression is to get help and support to overcome those devastating feelings and starting to be positive towards your self and to beat depression. Depression and its complications like…
Aug 18, 2015
MnemonicsMemorize tuberculosis drug family RIPES
How to remember drugs that are used to treat Tuberculosis: R I P E S Pharmaceutical mnemonics R : Rifampicin I : Isoniazide P : Pyrazinamide E : Ethambutol S : Streptomycin. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that targeting lungs , caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB symptoms include cough, weight loss, fatigue,…
May 23, 2015