Is Pharmacology Difficult Podcast SOURCES OF DRUG INFORMATION-2

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
chemical structure and properties, physical properties and
molecular weight, assay techniques, drug preservation and storage
methods, etc. Such a kind of information is very useful for drug
regulators and drug manufacturers. Its hardly of any use to the
clinical practitioners. Some well known ones are IP (Indian
pharmacopoeia), BP (British pharmacopoeia), USP (United States
Pharmacopoeia) Next, I want to talk about Formulary, its supervised
in a land by set of pharmacists. Very useful information like drug
use indications, drug dose, dosage form, cautions,
contraindications, side effects and much more is covered in this.
Description of drug class precedes the discussion of drug itself.
Some well known examples are British National Formulary (BNF),
National Formulary of India (NFI). With this chit chat about
Official Drug Compendia, next topic to be discussed is Non Official
Drug Compendia, surely to be in next episode...I will be call it
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