Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the area of medicine that focuses on the way in which drugs work in the human body. Pharmacology is a large area of study that includes areas of toxicology, biochemistry, and physiology. It considers all of these areas and the way which they impact and influence drugs in the body. The study of pharmacology is often divided into … Keep Reading → the groups of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Pharmacodynamics is the biological effect that the drugs have on the body while pharmacokinetics studies how the body absorbs, distributes and excretes the drugs. A dictionary of pharmacology once summarized this process as pharmacodynamics studies what the drug does to us while pharmacokinetics studies what we do to the drugs. Pharmacologists are trained as research scientists. The science of pharmacology is responsible for the drugs and medications that save and improve lives every day.