What is a drug?
-Chemical substances used to diagnose, treat or prevent disease or are intended to affect the structure or a function of the body
What is a medicine ?
-Delivery systems for administering drugs to the body in a safe, effective, accurate, reproducible and convenient manner
What is biopharmaceutics?
-The study of how the physicochemical properties of the drug and medicine combine with physiological aspects of the delivery route to determine rate and extent of absorption
What is formulation of medicines?
-The act of designing and producing a medicine from first principles
What is pre-formulation?
-Everything that needs to happen first with a new drug candidate