Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this V

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In this second edition, Les Iversen presents an introductory account of what drugs are, how they work, and the advances made over the past 100 years in the fiel