Pharmacotherapy Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 28, 07/27/2009

Question

What is pharmacoecology and how does it relate to clinical pharmacology?

Answer

The term pharmacoecology was first used by Charles Flexner, MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2004.(1)  The advancements made in human genetics and medicine have resulted in the emergence of several new terms to describe various influencing factors within the field of clinical pharmacology.  Such emerging terms include pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, proteomics, and metabonomics.   However, the term pharmacoecology is not really the emergence of a new area of drug therapy but rather a description of something that has always existed - the patient's environment or non-genetic factors. 

As such, pharmacoecology is the science and investigation of.....

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