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BioSpace.com - Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology news Measuring Units Conversion Tables A Guide to Biotechnology Company products Pharmaceutical Companies Drug Interactions Cytochrome P 450 Interactions - An excellent compilation Grapefruit Juice and Drug Interactions Food and Drug Interactions - by FDA and National Consumers League Online Interaction Checker - Drug facts Statistics Statistical Calculation Pages - Interactive pages on all statistical tests, from analysis to experimental design Statistical Calculators - interactive calculators on which you can run your stats Statistical Analysis Tools Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations Introduction to SPSS for Windows SPSS Introductory Tutorial SPSS 10.0 Tutorial Pharmacokinetics Acid - Base Tutorial - An excellent page biopharmaceutics and clinical aspects of acid - base physiology and pharmacology A First Course in Pharmacokinetics & Biopharmaceutics - Dr. David Bourne, University of Oklahoma Basic Pharmacokinetics on the Web - Creighton University Online Pharmacokinetic Simulations Pharmacokinetics Case Studies Basic and Clinical Pharmacokinetics Handouts - Purdue University A Short Course on Clinical Pharmacokinetics - University of South Carolina; Logon : Any name, Password : ps676 Extemporaneous Compounding Secundum Artem - Techniques and procedures for extemporaneous compounding The Practice of Pharmacy Compounding - FDA regulations on compounding practice Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA) PharmacyOneSource - Drug info, career resources, student resources, directories, surveys etc Vaginal Excipients - A comprehensive source of vaginal excipients Compounding Formulas from Recent Journal Literature FLAVORx - To make the medicines a lot less yucky ! ONLINE CONTINUING EDUCATION Pharmacists' Learning Assistance Network (PLAN) - by ACPE American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Inet Continuing Education National Community Pharmacists Association A Compilation of Continuing Education by USPHS - Pharmacy Programs US Pharmacist - FREE CE Free C E - Free CE POWER PAK C.E. - Free CE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Alternative Medicine Center - A comprehensive collection of most popular alternative medicines HerbMed - Evidence based herbal database - an excellent source with PubMed links Basic Principles of "Ayurveda" - A holistic system of healing which evolved some 30005000 years ago in India Ayurvedic Institute and Incompatible Food Combinations Ayurvedwebline.com - The art of living National Center for Complimentary & Alternative Medicine at NIH A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. 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