How Advances in Pharmaceutical Packaging Are Better Meeting Patients’ Needs

When developing oral dosage forms that are convenient to take and meet individuals’ needs, it’s not just the formulations themselves that must be user-friendly. Product packaging must also enable the product to be easily incorporated into patients and consumers’ daily lives.In this article featured in …

Some Like It Hot(Melted)

Hot melt coating (HMC) is a novel coating technology that is increasingly being adopted by pharmaceutical manufacturers. Since HMC requires extensive formulation and process knowledge to set up, is it worth the investment?In short, yes. In this article in The Medicine Maker, Dr Detlev Haack …

Five Minutes at DCAT With … Dr. Thomas Hein, Vice President Commercial & Regulatory Affairs

Improving the Palatability of User-Friendly Dosage Forms Using an Electronic Tongue

The taste of a medicine has important implications for patient acceptance and compliance. Therefore, formulation scientists use flavorings and taste-masking technologies to improve the palatability of APIs. Human tasting panels for assessing different formulations present a number of issues, so how can medicine manufacturers ensure …

A Package of Convenience

Patients today expect their medication to fit into their busy lifestyles. Not only should medicines be available in a range of user-friendly dosage forms, but they should also be conveniently packaged. How can the pharma industry better package their medicines to meet consumers’ needs?In this …

How New Dosage Forms Prolong the Lifecycle of Mature Products

An age-old problem of the pharmaceutical industry is what to do if product sales are dropping or are anticipated to drop. How can you revitalise an ageing product, boost brand loyalty and recapture interest? One approach is to develop existing APIs into one or more …

Top Form – Are You Choosing the Best Oral Dosage Form for Your API?

HERMES PHARMA’s Dr Thomas Hein knows that it can be easy to overlook the importance of selecting the right dosage form for a product. When it comes to oral drug delivery in particular, many pharmaceutical companies employ a tablet formulation almost automatically without ever stopping …

Incorporating Quality by Design into Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

The pharmaceutical industry has always maintained a focus on quality; the risks are simply too high not to. However, we are now seeing an increased emphasis on tackling quality upfront in the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. This means introducing quality as a consideration during the R&D …

From Bitter to Sweet: Developing a User-Friendly Painkiller

Caffeine is frequently added to common painkillers, such as acetaminophen, to increase their pain-relieving effect. Used primarily for mild to moderate pain, the acetaminophen plus caffeine combination is mostly produced in tablet form. Because of the extremely bitter taste of these APIs, formulation into other …

Swallowability by Design

Tablets are easy and cost-effective to manufacture, have good physical and chemical stability, and offer accurate dosing – it’s no surprise that they are the most common dosage form for prescription medicines. However, with patients of all ages having difficulties swallowing them, now is the …