Pharma Articles
Articles on key issues related to the pharma industry from the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies and pharma industry experts across the globe. The pharma industry articles' section focuses on current and emerging issues in areas such as Strategic developments in the pharma industry, pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
Nanocomposite Hybrid Metal-Organic Framework in Drug Delivery and Theranostic application
Introduction MOFs are evolving novel hybrid materials comprised of two component of inorganic and an organic fraction with diverse physicochemical characteristics MOFs have a high degree of porosity size tunability biocompatibility biodegradability and functionalisation capabilities Structurally M...Nanotherapeutic Intervention in Cancer Disease
Introduction Cancer is second most prevalent and lethal disease after cardiovascular disorder despite of advances in tumor biology research and chemotherapy The nanotechnology tremendously growing with due advances in nanomedicine and drug delivery system The mantra of nanotherapy in cancer based o...Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles
Applications and Apprehensions
Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles MSNs have attracted great attention over the last decade as a drug delivery system in the fields of biotechnology and Nano medicine due to their unique and adjustable physiochemical properties MSNs were first synthesised by Mobil researchers in and were called Mobil...Antimicrobial Stewardship Prioritising Quality Access to Healthcare
Antimicrobials treatments that kill or inhibit the growth of microorganisms are effective and necessary in medicine However organisms and microbes have increasingly begun to resist antimicrobial agents through evolutionary change and mutations Resistance to antimicrobials creates a difficult path fo...The European Lead Factory
A working model for collaborative public-private drug discovery
In drug discovery the search for new chemical equity to be developed into valuable preclinical and clinical candidates is very time and costintensive This is a particular difficulty for academics or small and medium enterprises SMEs who are likely to have limited resources Additionally small compani...FPS Taylor made containment equipments
The higher activity and potency of new Pharmaceutical APIs HAPI s and Sterile products brings the request for tailor made containment solutions to priority level This is required to continuously meet the safety standard and to assure the requested level of advanced technology supporting research act...Nanotechnology-based Inhalation Treatment for Lung Cancer
The lungs are the primary organ of the respiratory system The respiratory system works with the circulatory system to deliver oxygen from the lungs to the cells and remove carbon dioxide and return it to the lungs to be exhaled Respiration means exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air...Improving Biopharma Productivity through Optimal Bioreactor Operation
Generating global revenue of US billion biopharmaceuticals account for one fifth of pharmaceutical market The revenue grows at per cent annually which is double that of conventional pharmaceutical products The growing demand for therapeutic proteins and increasing focus from regulatory bodies have...Parenteral Preparations
Challenges in Formulations
INTRODUCTION Parenteral preparations are defined as solutions suspensionsemulsions for injection or infusion powders for injection or infusion gels for injection andimplants They are sterile preparations intended to be administrated directly into the systemic circulation in human or animal bodyThe Impact of Materials Handling on Facility Design and Operation
All too often the design of pharmaceutical OSD production facilities fails to recognise the impacton and the opportunities for materials handling In this article Shaun Baker considers a range of different options for materials handling the benefits and challenges in each case and the relationship be...Untapped Opportunities in Southeast Asia
A Growing Pharmaceutical Market with an increase in Clinical Trials
Southeast Asia is a growing pharmaceutical market with an increase in clinical trials in recent years With a population of about million and a total area of million kilometres it contains the regions wellrecognised study destinations of Malaysia Singapore and Thailand who are also members of PICS...When Orphan Drugs Make All the Difference
ONLY 5% OF RARE DISEASES HAVE TREATMENTS. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE TO PATIENTS?
Orphan drugs those medications that are typically produced in small quantities for limited patient populations are growing in importance worldwide Once largely considered too costly to produce given the limited number of patients affected by a particular disease new technology and new breakthroughs...The Unknown Sources of Error in the Pharmaceutical Weighing Process
PROCESS WEIGHING AND RECORDING BY OBSERVATION This is the process flow for weighing the reference standard where the values are recorded by observation from the balance screen and written into a laboratory notebook by an analyst The subsequent calculations are performed using a handheld calculat...A BITTER PILL: Exploring the Realm of Drug Counterfeiting
In the total number of counterfeit pills and other medications seized by Interpols Pangea pharmaceutical investigation team reached milliona drastic increase over the million seized by the same team in In May alone a single Interpol operation lead to the seizure of million counterfeit medicatio...Delivering On The Vast Potential Of Personalized Medicine
Patients in the st century have joined an increasingly visible group of empowered consumers These consumers are techsavvy informed handson global and increasingly in control of when where and how they are treated Personalized medicine is the exciting result of these empowered patients seeking hig...
