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Drug Therapy

Drug therapy, or pharmacotherapy, is the use of medicines to prevent, treat, or alleviate disease, and is a central element of clinical care across virtually every specialty. Its success depends on selecting the appropriate agent, dose, route, frequency, and duration for the individual patient, informed by the drug'…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 47× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Drug therapy, or pharmacotherapy, is the use of medicines to prevent, treat, or alleviate disease, and is a central element of clinical care across virtually every specialty. Its success depends on selecting the appropriate agent, dose, route, frequency, and duration for the individual patient, informed by the drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, the disease being treated, comorbidities, and the potential for adverse effects and interactions. Rational prescribing balances efficacy against safety and cost, and is supported by prescribing indicators, stewardship, and pharmacogenetic insight into variability in drug response, while adverse drug reactions and medication safety remain important considerations in hospital and community settings. Drug therapy is applied across infectious, cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, and psychiatric disease, often in combination regimens and alongside non-pharmacological measures. Research published in this area by the journal addresses these dimensions, including risk management during hospital administration of drug therapy, genetic polymorphisms affecting treatment in epilepsy, prescribing and dispensing practices assessed against WHO core indicators, antimicrobial adjuvant strategies during infection, comparison of plant-derived and pharmacological hypolipidaemic treatment, patterns of antiretroviral therapy and associated adverse drug reactions, and pharmacotherapy of metabolic and psychiatric conditions. These contributions span prescribing quality, pharmacogenetics, medication safety, and the clinical application of drug therapy across diverse diseases and healthcare settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2013

Pattern of Use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Regimens and Pattern of Occurrence of Adverse Drug Reactions in an Indian Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive Patients

Rajesh RadhakrishnanCorresponding author
Radhakrishnan Rajesh M.Pharm, Asst Professor (Senior Grade), Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal- 576 104, Karnataka, India.
Clinical Research In HIV AIDS And Prevention Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-12-174

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 47 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Advanced Therapeutic Science.

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