Medicines: Over 5,000 Over-the-counter and Prescription Drugs - Softcover

The pharmaceuticals market is large and dynamic: its range of medicines is increasingly diverse and complicated, while the average consumer now buys 8 prescription items per year. This fully-updated sixth edition of Medicines is the most authoritative handbook for consumers available.More than 5,000 medicines - brand names and generic terms - are listed in a straightforward A-Z format with full cross-referencing. Each entry provides essential information on the chemical elements of the medicine, which ailment it treats, how it works, possible side-effects and warnings for special groups such as the elderly, children and pregnant women. Where relevant, natural sources of drugs are mentioned. A glossary of illnesses and other medical terms is included at the end.The Royal Society of Medicine is widely acknowledged as a centre of multi-disciplinary excellence for all professionals concerned with modern health care. It has been at the forefront of medical matters for over 200 years

DR IAN MORTON is a former Lecturer in Pharmacology at University College London, and Senior Lecturer at King's College London. He is now a consultant editor and writer in pharmacology. DR JUDITH HALL has occupied various postdoctoral positions at King's College, London, and held a Wellcome Trust Medical Research Fellowship at the University of Surrey. She is a former Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology.Both Dr Morton and Dr Hall have a keen interest in explaining about drugs and how they work to the non-specialist, and since 1988 have worked together both in writing and editing more than a dozen books, as well as numerous encyclopedia entries directed at the general public.