About the Book:

Remington Education: Pharmaceutics provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of all aspects of pharmaceutics. The first part of the book covers physicochemical principles and highlights the importance of designing dosage forms that contain the appropriate dose, are stable, palatable, easily used by the patient and release drugs in a predictable fashion for absorption. The second part applies these formulation principles to the design of dosage forms used by each route of administration. 
Each chapter advises on both the science of the delivery mechanism and appropriate use of that delivery system including patient counselling points. Each chapter features:

·                    Learning objectives

·                    Key points boxes

·                    Drug examples

·                    Illustrations

·                    Assessment questions

Contents:

1.    Introduction to dosage form design

2.    Intermolecular forces and the physical and pharmaceutical properties of drugs

3.    Dispersed systems

4.    Properties of solutions and manipulation of solubility

5.    Chemical stability of drugs

6.    Drug travel from dosage form to receptor

7.    Bioavailability, bioequivalence and the Biopharmaceutical Classification System

8.    Parenteral drug delivery

9.    Delivery of biopharmaceuticals and the use of novel carrier systems

10. Drug delivery to the eye

11. Drug delivery from the oral cavity

12. Oral delivery of immediate release dosage forms

13. Oral delivery of modified release solid dosage forms

14. Rectal and vaginal drug delivery

15. Nasal drug delivery

16. Drug delivery to the lung and from the lung

17. Drug delivery to the skin

18. Transdermal dosage forms: drug delivery to the blood stream