BASIC INTRODUCTION OF PHARMACOLOGY
📌 KEY POINTS:
🔺Essential Drugs:
• First Model list by WHO in 1977
• First National EDL of India in 1996
• Current edition of India is 17th National list of Essential Medicines. It was modified in 2011. It contains 348 drugs
🔺Uppsala Monitoring Centre (Sweden) is the international collaborating centre for Pharmacovigilance.
In India it is Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)
🔺Vasomotor reversal of Dale was first demonstrated with ergot alkaloids.
