Drug Delivery

Many solid oral dosage forms do not dissolve at the correct place in the gastrointestinal tract for them to be absorbed into the bloodstream. Could magnets solve the problem?

Gilead to Acquire Calistoga; Bayer Healthcare Appoints Former Pfizer Exec; and More.

Company and People Notes: sanofi to Acquire Genzyme; Lilly Makes Senior Appointments; and More.

The pharma industry is constantly seeking drug delivery technologies that can increase compliance, improve the quality of delivered care, reduce medication errors and reduce the possibility of admixture-related contamination.

Needle-free injection technologies have been developed for injecting liquid formulations, as well as injecting drugs and vaccines in a solid dosage form.

The application of the first piston syringes to treat medical complications was described in Roman times during the 1st century, and forms of intravenous injection and infusion began as early as 1670.

The way in which a suspension nasal spray product interacts with the body depends not only on the droplet size of the delivered droplet, but also on the particle size of the suspended API.

Pfizer Acquires Ferrosan's Consumer Health Business; Patheon Appoints Former Biogen Exec as CEO; and More.

Taking inspiration from nature, researchers have devised a way of giving drug-bearing polymer vesicles armored protection that could enhance drug delivery.

Company and People Notes: Pfizer Completes King Tender Offer; Cook Pharmica Names VP of R&D and CSO; and More

Follow-ons were all the rage at this year's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Multiple materials are involved in the packaging of drug products in prefillable syringes.

Prefillable syringe systems are still one of the strongest growing segments in the pharmaceutical primary packaging market

An interview with Vetter's Oskar Gold about the trends and growth in prefilled syringes.

Novartis Acquires Genoptix; Lilly Exec Becomes Savient CEO; and More.

The original autoinjectors in the 1980s and 1990s were designed for military emergency applications and for the treatment of migraine and anaphylactic shock.

Merck Teams with Parexel; Roche CFO to Retire; and More

FDA issued a draft guidance for industry on Jan. 18, 2011, about the size of beads within drug products labeled for sprinkle.

The authors describe a new method for the production of personalised medicines utilising ultra-precise microdrop printing technology.

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Arresto Biosciences; Sartorius Appoints Head of Lab Business; and More.

Capable of great works, pharma as a whole still yields to the lesser angels of its nature.

The manufacture of orally dissolving films is done by various methods such as solvent casting, hot-melt extrusion, semisolid casting, solid-dispersion extrusion, and rolling. The authors discuss these methods and the various parameters in which dissolving films are evaluated.

Poor organization makes it hard for readers to find the helpful information in a recent book.

AstraZeneca and Abbott End Program; PhRMA Elects New Members; and More.

Pfizer Recalls One Lipitor Lot; Sanofi Aventis Names Head of R&D; and More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Dionex; Former SOCMA CEO Joe Acker Dies; and More.

Company and People Notes: GlaxoSmithKline acquires Nanjing MeiRui Pharma; Cephalon's CEO to remain on medical leave; and more.

The authors evaluated the effect of alcoholic beverages on the release profiles of sustained-release dosage forms containing metformin and diclofenac.

Genzyme Sells Business Unit to Sekisui Chemical; Ablexis Names VP of Research; and More.

Roche Details Restructuring Plan; Sigma-Aldrich Names Successors after CEO's Death; and More.