The International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) provide a comprehensive collection of information on drug use and development. As a primary source of drug-related health literature, IPA provides pharmacists, poison information specialists, drug information centers, the pharmaceutical industry, health practitioners, pharmacologists, medical librarians, cosmetic companies, environmentalists, educators, toxicologists, and litigators with information from over 800 health journals throughout the world.
Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:
- Drug reactions
- Toxicity
- Investigational drugs
- Drug evaluations
- Drug interactions
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Pharmaceutics
- Drug stability
- Pharmacology
- Preliminary drug testing
- Pharmaceutical chemistry
- Drug analysis
- Drug metabolism
- Pharmacognosy
- Methodology
Update Frequency
Monthly
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