Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs lik…
The high cost of essential medicines is a big problem. Recently, here in the United States where Ilive, social media and even lawmakers exploded in anger over a 400percent-plus increase in the lifesaving allergy medicine EpiPen. Similar outrage occurred when a young pharmaceutical corpora-tion chief executive officer (CEO) increased the price of a critical toxo-plasmosis drug by m…
Aqueous solutions are subject to bacterial or enzymatic degradation but may be preserved by initially boiling the solution for a short time to inactivate any enzymes present; microwave irradiation can also be used. Aqueous solutions may also be preserved by the addition of an antimicrobial preservative such as 0.1% w/v benzoic acid, 0.1% w/v sodium benzoate, or a mixture of 0.17% w/v methylpara…