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  2. Bachelor of Pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    A Bachelor of Pharmacy (abbreviated B Pharm or PharmB or BS Pharm) is a graduate academic degree in the field of pharmacy. In many countries, this degree is a prerequisite for registration to practice as a pharmacist. Since both PharmB and PharmD are prerequisites to license in most Western countries they are considered equivalent.

  3. Bupropion - Wikipedia

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    Bupropion 1: 1 mixture (racemate) Clinical data Pronunciation / b j uː ˈ p r oʊ p i ɒ n / bew- PROH -pee-on am-fa- BEW -teh-moan Trade names Wellbutrin, Zyban, others Other names Amfebutamone; 3-Chloro- N - tert -butyl-β-keto-α-methylphenethylamine; 3-Chloro-N-tert-butyl-β-ketoamphetamine; Bupropion hydrochloride AHFS / Drugs.com Monograph MedlinePlus a695033 License data EU EMA: by INN ...

  4. Pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links health sciences with pharmaceutical sciences and natural sciences.

  5. Generic Versus Brand-Name Drugs: What’s the Difference?

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    Generics are also available at a lower cost than brand-name medications. In fact, generic drugs cost 85 percent less than the brand version on average. FDA gives patent and exclusivity protection ...

  6. Contract research organization - Wikipedia

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    Contract research organization. In the life sciences, a contract research organization ( CRO) is a company that provides support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries in the form of research services outsourced on a contract basis. A CRO may provide such services as biopharmaceutical development, biological assay ...

  7. Active ingredient - Wikipedia

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    Active pharmaceutical ingredient means any substance that is intended for incorporation into a finished drug product and is intended to furnish pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or any function of the body.

  8. Medical prescription - Wikipedia

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    Pharmacy information systems are a potential source of valuable information for pharmaceutical companies as it contains information about the prescriber's prescribing habits. Prescription data mining of such data is a developing, specialized field. Many prescribers lack the digitized information systems that reduce prescribing errors.

  9. Bioavailability - Wikipedia

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    Bioavailability. In pharmacology, bioavailability is a subcategory of absorption and is the fraction (%) of an administered drug that reaches the systemic circulation. [1] By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%. [2] [3] However, when a medication is administered via routes other than ...