Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

 that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity

New chemical entity

A new chemical entity , or new molecular entity , is, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by the FDA in any other application submitted under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.An active moiety is a...

 (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

 properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient.
Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form

Dosage form

-Introduction:Dosage forms are a mixture of active drug components and nondrug components. Depending on the method of administration they come in several types. These are liquid dosage form, solid dosage form and semisolid dosage forms. A Liquid dosage form is the liquid form of a dose of a...

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Branches of pharmaceutics include:

• Pharmacokinetics
  Pharmacokinetics
  Pharmacokinetics, sometimes abbreviated as PK, is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to the determination of the fate of substances administered externally to a living organism...
  
  
• Pharmacodynamics
  Pharmacodynamics
  Pharmacodynamics is the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on the body or on microorganisms or parasites within or on the body and the mechanisms of drug action and the relationship between drug concentration and effect...
  
  
• Pharmacoepidemiology
  Pharmacoepidemiology
  Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the use of and the effects of drugs in large numbers of people.To accomplish this study, pharmacoepidemiology borrows from both pharmacology and epidemiology. Thus, pharmacoepidemiology is the bridge between both pharmacology and epidemiology...
  
  
• Pharmacogenomics
  Pharmacogenomics
  Pharmacogenomics is the branch of pharmacology which deals with the influence of genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a drug's efficacy or toxicity...
  
  
• Pharmacovigilance
  Pharmacovigilance
  Pharmacovigilance is the pharmacological science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines...
  
  
• Pharmaceutical formulation
  Pharmaceutical formulation
  Pharmaceutical formulation, in pharmaceutics, is the process in which different chemical substances, including the active drug, are combined to produce a final medicinal product.-Stages and timeline:...
  
  
• Pharmaceutical technology

See also

• List of pharmaceutical companies
• Pharmacognosy
  Pharmacognosy
  Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well...
  
  
• Pharmaceutical company
  Pharmaceutical company
  The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to deal in generic and/or brand medications and medical devices...
  
  
• Nicholas Culpeper
  Nicholas Culpeper
  Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books include The English Physician and the Complete Herbal , which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick ,...
  
  - 17th Century English Physician who translated and used 'pharmocological texts'.