''The Pharmaceutical Journal'' is a

professional journal A professional magazine or professional journal is a periodical published by the governing body of a profession."Professional Magazines or Journals" iProfessional/Trade Journals Piedmont College, Library. The standard of quality of such a periodical ...

covering various aspects of

pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links heal ...

, including

pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

and

pharmaceutics Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or old drugs into a medication to be used safely and effectively by patients. It is also called the science of dosage form design. The ...

. It is published by, and is the official journal of, Britain's professional organisation for pharmacists, the

Royal Pharmaceutical Society The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPharmS or RPS) is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession (pharmacists) within England, Scotland, and Wales. It was created along with the General Pharmaceutical Council ...

(formerly the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain). The ''PJ'' is considered to be "among the oldest professional journals in the world". It first appeared in July 1841 as a monthly journal called ''Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings'', produced by Jacob Bell, who was one of the founders of the (Royal) Pharmaceutical Society. The title of the journal changed to ''Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions'' in 1842 and "within a year it had all the features of an orthodox professional journal: leading articles, meeting reports, critical commentaries, letters, and book reviews. In 1859, Bell bequeathed the journal to the Pharmaceutical Society on his deathbed. The monthly publication became a weekly journal in 1870, and the title ''The Pharmaceutical Journal'' was adopted in 1895. More recently, the ''PJ'' was an early adopter of online publication. In 2015 its printed version reverted to monthly publication while the online journal continued with daily updates.

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