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Podcast: IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT®️ Podcast
Episode: Is Pharmacology Difficult Podcast SOURCES OF DRUG INFORMATION-2
Description: Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay.
Does your textbook cover all the minute details, I mean all, everything like trade names, drug information, purity, chemical, physical characteristics, etc? Well, if not, in today's episode you will get the knowledge of drug information sources, especially official ones.The collective term used for drug literature is "Drug Compendia". When I say its official, it means that government supervises it. The two main Official Drug Compendia are Pharmacopeia and Formulary.
Pharmacopoeia is supervised in a country by a set of chosen physicians. It covers drug details like...