H. P. Rang Books

HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE MEDICINE CATEGORY IN THE BMA 2006 MEDICAL BOOK COMPETITION!Winner of the Royal Society of Medicine Library Prize for Medical Book of the Year!Of the initial thousands of compounds with initial promise of drugs only a small handful be developed for human clinical trials and perhaps only one will become an approved drug. This book describes the huge complexities involved in bringing a drug to market and how new molecular understanding and techniques can make the process more targeted and successful.

Student Textbook Award Winner and Highly Commended in the Basic and Clinical Sciences Category, BMA Awards 2007!This new edition of the bestselling Rang & Dale's Pharmacology presents all the knowledge you need to get through your pharmacology course and beyond ― using a clear and accessible approach that makes the material easy and interesting to learn, and moving from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions to the clinical uses of the most important groups of drugs.A straightforward way to master a complex subject!

This textbook for medical and science students emphasises the mechanisms by which drugs act and relates these to pharmacological effects and clinical uses. It sets out for the reader a route from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions, to the uses of groups of drugs.