please tell me if there isa the difference between pharmacy and pharmacology.

73 Views|Posted 2011-06-29 20:26:36
Asked by Sumedha Bhat
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ARVIND SURYAVANSHI
2011-06-29 20:34:27
Hi sumedha,Im a pharmacology student and everytime I tell someone I study pharmacology they ask me 'so is that like pharmacy or what?' A pharmacologist studies what a drug does to a body and also what the body does to a drug. A pharmacist will deal with the end products of a pharmaceutical insudtry

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Dr. Kesasan Shak
2011-06-29 20:57:18
Simply, pharmacy - study of medicine and pharmacology - study of any changes, reaction or response to that chemical in a living organism (what happens when you inject it). In short, Pharmacology is the study of drug interaction in living organisms. Learning how a drug interacts in the human body, f

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