Melloni's Pocket Medical Dictionary: Illustrated

The Melloni series of medical dictionaries are famous for their concise definitions and detailed illustrations. And Melloni's Pocket Medical Dictionary: Illustrated is no exception. A condensed and portable version of the award-winning and highly acclaimed Mellonis's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, the book features a wide range of beautifully drawn and carefully labeled illustrations to accompany the large number of expert and concise medical definitions. The pocketbook takes the most important qualities of the 4th Edition, reduces its size without sacrificing accuracy and clarity, and adds the most current information. When you can't take the big book with you, this book provides the information you need where you need it.

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Good Manufacturing Practices and Inspection (Quality Assurance of Pharmaceuticals) by WHO

Quality assurance of pharmaceutical products is a continuing concern of WHO. Despite efforts made around the world to ensure a supply of quality and effective medicines, substandard, spurious and counterfeit products still compromise health care delivery in many countries. To respond to the global need for adequate quality assurance of pharmaceuticals, WHO's Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations has over the years made numerous recommendations to establish standards and guidelines and to promote the effective functioning of national regulatory and control systems and the implementation of internationally agreed standards by trained personnel.

Many of the relevant documents endorsed by the Committee are reproduced in this volume, providing guidance covering all aspects of good manufacturing practices (GMP). Important texts on inspection are also included. Most of the material has been published separately in the Expert Committee's reports. This compendium brings it together to make it more accessible and of greater practical value to those working in faculties of pharmacy, in medicines regulation and control, and in the pharmaceutical industry.

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National Formulary of India (NFI 2011, 4th Edition)

The National Formulary of India is essentially meant for the guidance of the members of the medical profession; medical students, nurses and pharmacists working in hospitals and in sales establishments. In the preparation of this Formulary, the expert opinion of medical practitioners, teachers in medicine, nurses, pharmacists and Pharmaceutical manufacturers has been obtained. The selection of drugs for inclusion in the National Formulary has been made taking into consideration the relative advantages and disadvantages of the various drugs used, the extent of their use in current medical practice and their availability in the country. Thus the National Formulary of India represents a broad consensus of medical opinion in respect of drugs and their formulations and provides the physician with carefully selected therapeutic agents of proved effectiveness which form the basis of national drug therapy.

As more than three decades have elapsed since the publication of the last edition of the National Formulary of India, it is to be expected that This 4th edition of NFI would have many distinct features to promote the rational use of medicines in the country.

The formulations included in the Formulary and the ingredients thereof should conform to the standards laid down in the current edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia. If no standards are specified in the current edition but are specified in the immediately preceding edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia then these standards would apply. In respect of drugs for which no standards have been laid down in the Indian Pharmacopoeia, these would have to conform to the standards laid down in the official pharmacopoeia of any other country wherein they are included. The provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and the Rules made thereunder including those relating to labeling and conditions of storage should be observed.

Contents: Preface.  Acknowledgements. 1. Analgesics, antipyretics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). 2. Antacids and antiulcer Drugs. 3. Antiallergics and drugs used in anaphylaxis. 4. Anti-Alzheimer and anti-parkinsonism drugs. 5. Anticonvulsants/antiepileptics. 6. Antidiarrhoeals and laxatives. 7. Antidotes and substances used in poisoning. 8. Antiemetics. 9. Anti-infectives. 10. Antimigraine drugs. 11. Antineoplastics and immunosuppressives. 12. Antiseptics and disinfectants. 13. Cardiovascular drugs. 14. Dermatological drugs. 15. Diagnostic agents. 16. Dialysis fluids. 17. Disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and Drugs for Gout. 18. Diuretics. 19. Drugs in Osteoporosis. 20. Drugs for anaesthesia. 21. Drugs for inflammatory Bowel disease. 22. Drugs for Myasthenia Gravis. 23. Drugs for respiratory diseases. 24. Hormones, contraceptives and related drugs. 25. Immunologicals. 26. Muscle relaxants. 27. Ophthalmological preparations. 28. Psychotherapeutic drugs. 29. Solutions correcting water, electrolyte and acid base disturbances. 30. Vitamins, minerals and antianaemic drugs. Appendices. Index.

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Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers

Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems. 

Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers assembles hundreds of shortcuts, calculations, practical "how-to" methods, and concise background reviews into one convenient volume. 

Whether you're concerned with design, selection, or performance, you'll find fast, accurate answers here - all without wading through pages of theory. 

Experts from all engineering disciplines have packed this book's sixteen chapters with design criteria and practical tips. You'll find easy-to-read descriptions on fluids, heat transfer, thermodynamics, seals, pumps, and compressors, drivers, gears, and bearings, as well as piping and pressure vessels. 

Also covers tribology, vibrations, materials, stress and fatigue, instrumentation, and engineering economics. 

* Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems. 

* Hundreds of shortcuts, calculations and practical "how-to" methods in one convenient volume. 

* Fast, accurate answers to design, selection, or performance issues.

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Pharmaceutical Packaging Handbook

A complete overview of the role that packaging plays in the development and delivery of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Including a thorough examination of the industry in size and scope, this source gives an introduction drug dosage forms, vaccines, biologically produced products, and medical foods to the reader.

Pharmaceutical Packaging Handbook is the most complete and straightforward text on the market today and also lists information in an easy to follow fashion, making it a complete stand-alone reference for anyone working in the pharmaceutical industry.

discusses how packaging is designed and integrated into the product development cycle has an overview of the regulatory environment procedures provides the reader with a basic introduction into key aspects of navigating the regulations describing the materials used to package pharmaceuticals, including glass, metal, plastics, flexible films, rubbers and elastomers comments on some new hybrids used for packaging, with a short introduction to plastics, their makeup, and typical uses in packaging explores the processing techniques used with the materials to produce pharmaceutical containers and some of the strengths and weaknesses of the processes used for container fabrication introduces the reader to retort, aseptic, gas, and radiation sterilization of product discusses labeling and design for pharmaceuticals including how labels are produced, materials used, and production techniques.

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Food Plant Design

Although chemical engineering and food technology are subject areas closely related to food processing systems and food plant design, coverage of the design of food plants is often sporadic and inadequately addressed in food technology and engineering books.

Some books have attempted to treat food engineering from this dual point of view but, most have not achieved balanced coverage of the two. Focusing on food processing, rather than chemical plants, Food Plant Design presents precise design details with photos and drawings of different types of food processing plants, including food processing systems, refrigeration and steam systems, conveying systems, and buildings. The authors discuss the subject in an ordered format that gives you the tools to produce food products with minimum cost.

Including modeling procedures for food processing systems and auxiliary systems, they elucidate synthesis techniques and procedures. Using a clear structure for different levels of information and data on different food processing alternatives, the book outlines solutions to plant design problems in the context of overall optimization of an agro-industrial system and corresponding food chain.

It provides the work procedures and techniques for solving the design problems of a food processing plant and in making a defined food product.

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Handbook of Pharmaceutical Salts : Properties, Selection, and Use

An estimated half of all drug molecules used in medicine are administered as salts, and the formation and the selection of a suitable salt for a drug candidate is recognized as an essential step in the preclinical phase of modern drug development. Surprisingly, however, the scientific literature on this topic is rather limited and scattered throughout numerous journals and patents. The majority of medicinal chemists in pharmaceutical industry whose primary focus is the design and synthesis of novel compounds as future drug entities are organic chemists for whom salt formation is often a marginal activity restricted to the short-term objective of obtaining crystalline material.

Because a comprehensive resource that addresses the preparation, selection, and use of pharmaceutically active salts has not been available, researchers may forego the opportunities for increased efficacy and improved drug delivery provided by selection of an optimal salt. To fill this gap in the pharmaceutical bibliography, we have gathered an international team of seventeen authors from academia and pharmaceutical industry who, in their contributions to this volume, present the necessary theoretical foundations as well as a wealth of detailed practical experience in the choice of pharmaceutically active salts. An introductory chapter presents a concise review of the various objectives in the pursuit of pharmaceutically active salts, followed by contributions that present the theoretical background of salt formation: dissociation and ionic equilibria, solubility and dissolution (Chapters 1 and 2), evaluation of solid-state properties (Chapter 3), and safety, biopharmaceutical, and pharmaceutical-technological aspects (Chapters 4 and 5).

In Chapters 6, 7, and 8, the practice of salt formation in an industrial research-and-development environment is described, including salt-selection strategies, aspects of large-scale industrial salt production, and the significance of salt formation in industrial processing. Regulatory and patent issues are addressed in Chapters 9 and 10, and Chapter 11 provides practical examples of preparation of salts for the practitioners at the lab bench. The book concludes with a comprehensive annotated compilation of the individual salt-forming acids and bases with their relevant properties (Chapter 12), followed by an Appendix containing tables with the acids and bases sorted alphabetically and by pKa, supplemented with other useful facts and data.

The editors have taken care to address every conceivable aspect of the preparation of pharmaceutical salts. Altogether, the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the science involved in selection of suitable salt forms for new drug products. This book is destined to be an essential reference resource for students of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, and an indispensable handbook for research-and-development chemists, analytical chemists, biologists, development pharmacists, regulatory and patent specialists, and medicinal scientists engaged in preclinical development of drugs.

This comprehensive up-to-date guide and information source will be an instructive companion for all scientists involved in research and development of drugs and, in particular, of pharmaceutical dosage forms.

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