This book describes the process of immunomodulation and the plants which possess immunomodulation properties to boost the immune system.

This extensively updated new edition on psychotropic prescribing for children and adolescents provides guidance on developmental pharmacology principles, expertly reviews common medications and featuring tips, tricks, metabolism/pharmacogenetics, and side effects. A must-have manual for anyone prescribing in the field of mental health.

As the range of psychotropic medications in child and adolescent mental health continues to expand and change, this book provides an indispensable formulary in the field. With an easy-to-use, full-color, template-driven navigation system, it combines evidence-based data with clinically informed advice to support all psychiatric prescribers.

Prescribing Scenarios at a Glance is an innovative resource which allows medical students and junior doctors to practise prescribing skills safely for themselves. Supporting those who wish to develop their prescribing knowledge and clinical reasoning, this book features 50 acute and on call scenarios in a hospital setting.

A unique resource for medical students and foundation doctors to improve their understanding of the principles of safe prescribing and practice the physical act of filling out a drug chart correctly.

Part of the "Quality Chasm Series", this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It provides an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. It examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and effectiveness of error prevention strategies.

Highly regarded by both students and instructors, Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 4th Edition, offers an integrated mechanism-based and systems-based approach to contemporary pharmacology and drug development.

This volume focuses on the potential use of probiotics in treating metabolic disorders such as diabetes mellitus, metabolic acidosis, and gut dysbiosis.