drug administration
21Food and Drug Administration — FDA. An agency in the U.S. federal government whose mission is to protect public health by making sure that food, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements are safe to use and truthfully labeled. The Food and Drug Administration also makes sure that …
22Drug addiction — is widely considered a pathological state. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug seeking behavior, the vulnerability to relapse, and the decreased, slowed ability to respond to naturally… …
23Drug development — Drug research redirects here. For the journal, see Drug Research (journal). Drug development is a blanket term used to define the process of bringing a new drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug… …
24Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act — Acronym Hatch Waxman amendments Citations Codification …
25Drug Master File — or DMF is a document prepared by a pharmaceutical manufacturer and submitted solely at its discretion to the appropriate regulatory authority in the intended drug market. There is no regulatory requirement to file a DMF. However, the document… …
26Drug-eluting stent — Intervention An example of a drug eluting stent. This is the TAXUS Express2 Paclitaxel Eluting Coronary Stent System, which releases paclitaxel. ICD 9 CM …
27Drug resistance — is the reduction in effectiveness of a drug such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic[1] in curing a disease or condition. When the drug is not intended to kill or inhibit a pathogen, then the term is equivalent to dosage failure or drug… …
28Drug repositioning — (also known as Drug repurposing, Drug re profiling, Therapeutic Switching and Drug re tasking) is the application of known drugs and compounds to new indications (i.e., new diseases).[1] Contents 1 Drug repositioning 2 See also …
29Drug Efficacy Study Implementation — (DESI) was a program begun by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1960s after the requirement (in the Kefauver Harris Drug Control Act) that all drugs be efficacious as well as safe. The DESI program was intended to classify all pre… …
30Food and Drug Administration — U.S. Govt. a division of the Department of Health and Human Services that protects the public against impure and unsafe foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Abbr.: FDA * * * ▪ United States agency agency of the U.S. federal government authorized by …
