Erschienen in:
01.07.2006 | Editorial
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
The First 30 Years
verfasst von:
Trevor M. Speight, Volke Sjöqvist
Erschienen in:
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
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Ausgabe 7/2006
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Excerpt
This year, 2006, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of Clinical Pharmacokinetics onto the centre stage of the world’s clinical pharmacology literature focusing on the (then) relatively new discipline of pharmacokinetics. The journal was the brainchild of Adis International’s former publisher, Graeme Avery, whose vision was to create a new publication that would: (i) educate readers on the principles of pharmacokinetics and their importance in understanding the fate of drugs in the body and facilitating prescribing decisions for patients; and (ii) provide a new vehicle for communicating new pharmacokinetic research findings of clinical importance. In 1976, these areas had been identified as ones that were not particularly well served by existing publications, and it was reasoned that a new journal focusing solely on pharmacokinetic concepts and their clinical implications would strike the right note with academics, practicing physicians, clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists and students alike. How right this assumption proved to be. …
