Your Search
- All results
- Pages
- Articles in the press
- Brochures
- Company news
- Educational resources
- News
- Podcasts
- Press releases
- Videos
- Events
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 …
User-Friendly OTC Dosage Forms Deliver Opportunity For Industry
Consumers expect choice and convenience in all aspects of their lives, including their medication. As such, the OTC industry must evolve to take advantage of this fact – manufacturers can breed brand loyalty and increase market share by offering consumers more convenience and a choice …
Germany Puts Focus on Pharma Innovation
The German pharmaceutical market is the largest in Europe and is predicted to grow to $65 billion by 2020. But where exactly is it headed in the future?This topic is explored in an article published in PharmaVOICE, where Dr Detlev Haack (Director of Research & …
Optimizing Dosage Forms for Improved Therapeutic Compliance
The oral route of administering medicines remains the most common for many reasons including cost, convenience and public familiarity. Of the oral dosage forms available, tablets and capsules are often the most well known and therefore the default choice for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. However, …