Diseases
How common conditions develop and what they mean for treatment.
Digital eBook
Know Your Medicines
Understanding Diseases, Essential Medicines and Safe Medicine Use — a digital-first reference being developed for students, pharmacy professionals and readers who want reliable, plain-language information.
About the eBook
Know Your Medicines is written as a digital-only book. It is not a printed textbook converted to a file — it is being structured from the start for reading on a phone, a tablet or an e-reader, with short entries, clear headings and quick navigation.
Why this book? In teaching and in pharmacy practice, the same gap keeps appearing: the information exists, but not in a form people can actually use. This book tries to close that gap for diseases, essential medicines and safe use.
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What's inside
The structure of the book
Essential medicines
Widely used medicines, grouped so they are easy to place and recall.
How medicines work
Mechanisms explained in plain language, without losing accuracy.
Clinical use
Where a medicine fits in practice, and what to watch for.
Safe medicine use
Doses, interactions, precautions and everyday safety.
Quick reference
Short, scannable entries built for revision and quick checks.
Who is it for
Written for four kinds of reader
- D.Pharm students
- B.Pharm students
- Pharmacy professionals
- Educated general readers
Digital reading experience
Mobile-friendly
Readable typography and layout on a phone screen.
Tablet-friendly
Comfortable long-form reading on larger screens.
E-reader ready
Designed to hold up on e-ink devices as well.
Easy navigation
Searchable structure so a topic is a few taps away.
Sample pages
Previews will be published here
Actual pages from the book will be added as they are finalised. Nothing is shown until it is real.
Disease page
Preview to be added
Medicine page
Preview to be added
Mechanism
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Clinical use
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Safe medicine use
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Author's note
A note from Shakil Ahmed
I teach pharmacy, and I keep meeting the same moment: a student who has memorised a drug class but cannot say why it is used, or a patient who is taking a medicine without knowing what it is doing. Both problems come from the same place.
This book is my attempt at an answer — written the way I would explain it in a classroom, and kept digital so it can be updated as practice changes.
Current development status
Writing and structuring are in progress. Chapters, sample pages and the final cover will appear on this page as they are completed.
Availability
Purchase and download details will be published here once the eBook is released. No release date has been announced.
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