Tuesday, 31 July 2018

pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical

The primary difference between biopharmaceuticals and traditional pharmaceuticals is the method by which the drugs are produced: The former are manufactured in living organisms such as bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells, whereas the latter are manufactured through a series of chemical synthesis.

Monday, 30 July 2018

Drug & Medicine



Medicine, however, is our term for a drug when that drug is used to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent a disease. Many people become addicted to drugs even when used as medicine. ... Here is where the lines of addiction and medicine become blurry and begin to come together until the medication is the addiction



Medicotherapeutic approach vs Pharmacotherapeutic approach
Therapeutics
: In medicine, the branch that deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of healing. In pharmacology, therapeutics accordingly refers to the use of drugs and the method of their administration in the treatment of disease.