SHARGEL and YU'S Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

This authoritative guide has been updated with important new findings about drug therapy, product performance, and other need-to-know topics

Applied Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics, Eighth Edition delivers the knowledge and skills you need to succeed. The authors provide practical problems with specific examples of clinical solutions to help you apply principles to patient care and drug consultation situations. Each chapter includes objectives, summaries, and FAQs highlighting that help you understand and retain key concepts. You'll learn how to derive models/parameters to describe drug absorption, distribution, and elimination processes; evaluate biopharmaceutic studies involving drug product equivalency and unequivalency; design and evaluate dosage regimens of drugs; detect and solve clinical pharmacokinetic problems; and much more.

Leon Shargel, PhD, is Vice President of Biopharmaceutics at Eon Labs, Inc.

Andrew B.C. Yu, PhD, RPh, was a professor at the Albany College of Pharmacy and served at the Federal Drug Administration.

Murray P. Ducharme, PharmD, FCCP, FCP, is President and CEO/ Président et DG, Learn and Confirm Inc. He is also Professeur Associé, Faculté de Pharmacie, at the Université de Montréal, Canada, as well as a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, at Rhodes University, South Africa