A Hard Pill to Swallow: Meeting the Needs of Modern Consumers

Confronted with the ‘patent cliff’, dwindling drug discovery success and a host of other challenges, pharmaceutical companies are being forced to reconsider how they can remain profitable. This includes a move towards actively placing the needs of the modern patient at the centre of their …

Putting Patients First

Pharma is looking to the over-the-counter market as an opportunity to reduce healthcare costs and promote self-administration. By creating medicines that patients choose to take, rather than have to take, forward-thinking companies can grow their market share, despite the challenging climate.This article has been written …

Blend Uniformity – In the Mix

When manufacturing safe and effective drugs, it is essential that the amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient present in every dose is exactly the same. During production of solid oral dosage forms, the key challenge is to obtain a homogeneous blend before tableting or filling, in …

It’s no Choke!

Over 55% of people suffer from swallowing difficulties when taking tablets and/or capsules, according to a recent market study commissioned by HERMES PHARMA. It surveyed 2,000 people in the US and Germany and was conducted by market research expert Spiegel Institut Mannheim. The findings also …

Hot Melt Coating for Controlling the Stability, Release Properties and Taste of Solid Oral Dosage Forms

Traditional methods to coat solid oral dosage forms mostly use solvents, an approach that suffers from a range of drawbacks including cost, environmental concerns and lengthy processing times. Hot melt coating (HMC) is an innovative and effective alternative that is reliable, cheap and fast, while …

Some Like it Hot …

Pharmaceuticals are often administered via the oral route – a cheap, simple and safe approach. However, many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) need to be effectively coated to ensure stability, efficacy and the desired API release profile. Hot melt coating (HMC) is becoming a go-to technique …

Executive Q&A on HERMES PHARMA and user-friendly dosage forms

Hermes Highlights Need for Better Formats

In the pharmaceutical and food/dietary supplement industries, the oral route is considered a simple and cost-efficient way of delivery, with most products being traditionally formulated as solid tablets or capsules. However, consumer habits and demands are changing…To deliver medical and commercial success, pharmaceutical products will …

Des Formes Posologiques Pour Faciliter l’Utilisation des Médicaments

La prise de médicaments sous formes posologiques orales est considérée comme la méthode d’administration la plus simple, mais n’est pas sans présenter quelques difficultés. Les comprimés solides peuvent être gros, difficiles voire douloureux à avaler.Les formes posologiques telles que les granules et comprimés effervescents, les …

User-Friendly Dosage Forms, a Win-Win Situation for Patients and Pharma

The easiest and simplest route of drug administration is oral ingestion. Traditionally, this has been achieved using solid tablets or capsules, which are swallowed whole and break down in the gastrointestinal tract to release their active pharmaceutical ingredients.However, swallowing tablets is not always easy. Tablet …