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Prefilled syringes and vaccines: Optimising parenteral packaging for the next pandemic

Pharmaceutical Technology

Manufacturers are actively looking at ways they can improve drug delivery through well-designed parenteral packaging systems, and the choice to deploy prefilled syringes for more and more injectable drug products is a key part of this push. Prefilled syringes offer a number of advantages over the more traditional glass vial.

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Leading pharmaceutical solid dose (commercial dose) manufacturing companies in contract marketing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical solid dosage forms are the most popular in the pharmaceutical industry and are one of the most used drug delivery methods across patient groups. The download contains detailed information on the providers and their services and solutions, alongside contact details to aid your purchasing or hiring decision.

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Leading pharmaceutical compounding companies in contract marketing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical compounding is a method of preparing personalised medications for patients by mixing the individual ingredients in the exact strength and dosage form required by the patient. Packaging. • It may provide access to discontinued drugs and allows for alternative compounded dosage forms. Excipients. Formulation.

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Norepinephrine vs Epinephrine Post Cardiac Arrest

Pharmacy Friday Pearls

Download PDF. Dose Weight-based dosing: • Usual dosage range: 0.01 Epinephrine [package insert] Lake Forest, IL: Hospira, Inc.; Introduction . The effects of epinephrine on animal hemodynamics have been studied since the late 1800s with recent concern with deleterious complications with cerebral and myocardial oxygen supply.

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Rising demand for pediatric dosage forms requires reformulation, expertise, and to-scale manufacturing capabilities

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies are looking to paediatric indications of approved adult dosage forms (ADFs) to sustain and fuel growth. Various modifications to adult dosage forms (ADFs) are often needed to make a drug easier for children to take and easier for parents to administer. Innovative solutions to complex challenges.

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

She estimates that — with the gene therapy industry switching focus from treating only orphan diseases to more prevalent indications and conditions requiring more viral vector particles per dosage — yearly viral vector demand “could easily increase by one million-fold”. Two-Plasmid Packaging System for Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus.

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Fixed-dose combination: Considerations for design, formulation, manufacturing and analysis

Pharmaceutical Technology

Understanding both the significant competitive advantages that FDC products can offer, and the difficulties and potential pitfalls associated with development and manufacturing of FDC drugs in oral solid dosage forms is a critical first step for companies exploring this approach. Of those 131 approved FDCs, 98 were oral dosage forms.