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Drug Therapy

Drug therapy, or pharmacotherapy, is the use of medicines to prevent, treat, or manage disease by modifying physiological and biochemical processes such as enzyme activity, receptor signaling, neurotransmission, and hormone production. Rational drug therapy matches agent, dose, route, and duration to the condition a…

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 manage disease by modifying physiological and biochemical processes such as enzyme activity, receptor signaling, neurotransmission, and hormone production. Rational drug therapy matches agent, dose, route, and duration to the condition and patient, balancing efficacy against adverse effects and interactions, and may be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic modalities. Safe administration, prescribing quality, and management of risk are central to effective care. Research relevant to this area includes risk management during hospital administration of drug therapy, genetic polymorphisms affecting epilepsy treatment, dietary and herbal interventions in metabolic syndrome and hyperlipidemia, antioxidant adjuncts to antimalarial therapy, prescribing and dispensing practices under WHO core indicators, antiretroviral regimens and adverse drug reactions in HIV, cerebrovascular reactivity in headache, and antidepressant use and metabolic risk. The journal publishes peer-reviewed work, grouped here under drug-resistant pathogen research and clinical pharmacology, addressing the application, safety, and optimization of pharmacotherapy across infectious, metabolic, neurological, and psychiatric conditions, connecting evidence on prescribing practice, treatment response, and medication risk to the effective and individualized use of drugs in clinical care.

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 Drug Resistant Pathogen Research.

Journal editorial board
Maria Isabel Veiga · Portugal Eva Sapi · United States ZHUO WANG · United States

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