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Podcast: IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT®️ Podcast
Episode: Is Pharmacology Difficult Podcast NAME OF DRUGS-1
Description: Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay.
How do you name a drug? Why is Aspirin called as Aspirin? Is it same as Acetylsalicylic acid? What is the basis of all these things? Let us get in to mechanics, traditions, and rules of this name game in today's episode. There are many grounds to classify a drug naming method, especially on basis of molecular structure, etc.Broadly I will classify them in three categories namely Chemical or Scientific name, Secondly Non proprietary or Generic name, Thirdly, Proprietary or trade name or brand name.Talk will...