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Outsourcing Formulation Development and Manufacturing: CDMOs Shift to Offer More Specialized Services
Meeting modern consumer expectations through specialist formulation expertiseIncreasing demand for personalized medicines and supplements is broadening the market for dosage forms that are quick, convenient and safe for people to use. As a result, many product developers are turning to contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) …
Don’t Forget About the Patient
Pharma manufacturers are not embracing patient-centric design when it comes to formulation. We need to go beyond tablets and capsules.Designing products that cater to the needs of those who use them seems logical for any competitive market. Yet tablets and capsules, which cause problems for …
Creating User-Friendly Oral Dosage Forms
The use of electronic tongue technology helps firms reduce development times and costs by overcoming challenges associated with traditional testing panels.Ensuring medicines taste pleasant is necessary to achieve high levels of patient compliance, and this is especially important for user-friendly formulations which are tasted more …
A User-Friendly Approach to Developing an Extended-Release Product
The challenge of achieving sustained delivery of an active ingredient or nutrient can be achieved with extended-release formulations.To treat many conditions effectively, it can be beneficial for the active pharmaceutical ingredient or nutrient to be delivered to the body over a prolonged period of time. …
HERMES PHARMA joins the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA)
HERMES PHARMA is committed to making medicines more user-friendly in the USMunich/Grosshesselohe, Germany – October 6, 2011 – HERMES PHARMA, the expert in developing and manufacturing user-friendly solid oral dosage forms, today announced that it has joined the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA). CHPA is the …
Improving the granule strength of roller-compacted ibuprofen sodium for hot-melt coating processing
Solvent-free hot-melt coating processing is a novel and cost-efficient approach to manufacturing taste-masked multiparticulate systems. However, most API powders are fine and cohesive and not processable by hot-melt coating. The aim of this study was to produce dense and abrasion-resistant granules with high drug content …
HERMES PHARMA presents poster on Hot Melt Coating for immediate-releasse orally disintegrating granules
HERMES PHARMA attended the 10th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology which took place in, Glasgow, United Kingdom from April 4 to 7, 2016. The conference and its accompanying exhibition take place every second year and provide a cross-disciplinary platform for pharmaceutical scientists working in …
Market study with 2.000 consumers in Germany and the US
Taking a Pill Is As Easy As Pie? 50% of Your Customers Would Disagree …The oral route is a simple and cost-efficient way of delivering medicine, typically as tablets or capsules. However, recent data suggest that these dosage forms are often far from optimal. Commissioned …
Ensuring Patient Adherence in Paediatric and Geriatric Populations
Patient noncompliance costs US healthcare payers an estimated $330 billion annually, according to a recent study. With value of care increasingly determining a medicine’s market success, many pharmaceutical companies are recognizing the importance of adopting a patient-centric approach to formulation development, especially for products designed …
In the Best Possible Taste – Accelerating Formulation Development and Delivering More Reliable Results using electronic tongues
Given the inherently bitter taste of many active pharmaceutical ingredients, a key challenge for developers is how best to use flavorings and taste-masking technologies to make oral dosage forms taste more pleasant. With traditional methods of assessing taste suffering from a number of important limitations …