Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient. Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form such as a For other uses, see Pharmacy (disambiguation). ... According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new chemical entity means a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by FDA in any other application submitted under section 505(b) of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmakos (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and logos (λόγος) meaning science) is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function. ...

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Branches of pharmaceutics include:

• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacodynamics
• Pharmacogenomics
• Pharmaceutical formulation
• Pharmaceutical technology

Pharmacokinetics (in Greek: pharmacon meaning drug, and kinetikos meaning putting in motion) is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to the determination of the fate of substances administered externally to a living organism. ... Pharmacodynamics is the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and the mechanisms of drug action and the relationship between drug concentration and effect. ... Pharmacogenomics is the branch of pharmaceutics which deals with the influence of genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a drugs efficacy or toxicity. ... Pharmaceutical formulation, in pharmaceutics, is the process in which different chemical substances are combined to a pure drug substance to produce a final medicinal product. ... Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy which deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. ...

See also

• Pharmacy
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmaceutical company
• Nicholas Culpeper - 17th Century English Physician who translated and used 'pharmocological texts'.