Chemical compounds as medicines Authors Àngel Messeguer i Peypoch Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya Keywords: Medicines, medicinal chemistry, active principle, excipient, dosage form. Abstract Chemical compounds are essential for health. Medicines are composed of chemical compounds (active principles from natural or synthetic origin, biomolecules and excipients, depending on the administration forms). In their manufacture, medicines should follow highly rigorous controls to assure efficacy and safety. These guarantees should be validated by international agencies such as the American FDA or the European Medicament Agency before authorising that any medicine could be administered to patients. Similar criteria should prevail for the rational use of medicines by consumers in order to avoid undesirable secondary effects for health.keywords: Medicines, medicinal chemistry, active principle, excipient, dosage form. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 24 (2018) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
