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.
Globally the number of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is increasing significantly while conventional antibiotics recommended as a gold standard medicine have now become futile Therefore demand for an alternative of antibiotics is on for a long time In this regard the advent of nanoscience...
What are the problems and can we do something about that?
When a label on a bottle says tablets we assume there are tablets inside dont we Not or but exactly To be more precise it is expected that the bottle contains exactly undamaged tablets of the same kind Obviously bottle filling technology must meet two bigger requirements namely high accuracy f...
Development of a new drug product remains a costly affair and figures of about billion are quoted for development of one successful product Surveys often show that more than of the expenditure on drug product development
Cancer is a major cause of fear of death in both the developed and the developing country and also a leading public health problem Colorectal cancer is the fourth most cancer detected worldwide although significant progress in therapy still leads to significant mortality and mobility
Using statistical process controltools for stock management
An establishment ofan appropriate and effective system for monitoring and control of the goods mobility in the warehouses is an important integral part of GXP to ensure an uninterrupted flow of the manufacturing industrial work This process should be done without any shortage or overstocking of the...
Vaccine adjuvants represent an essential tool to augment human immune response Despite significant advances in medical research practical progress in commercial development of new modalities has been slow till recently Alum salts have remained a gold standard adjuvant for almost one hundred years si...
Pharmaceutical Quality by Design QbD is not a buzz word today From its inception by ICH and USFDA the concept of QbD has gained significant attention by the global biopharmaceutical industry The key goal behind QbD implementation was improving the manufacturing standards
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in both developed and developing countries and also a major public health problem This dreadful disease is spreading with continuance and increasing incidences in recent times In million cancer patients died as per the reports of World Health Organizat...
Most of the conventional free drugs suffer from high side effects poor adsorption poor solubility high drug dosing minimum efficiency uncontrolled and nonspecific delivery with high cytotoxicity which limit their uses With respect to the chemotherapeutic drugs concern is more because most of the ant...
Nanomedicines are recently gaining enormous attention among scientists in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications On the other hand Diabetes especially Type diabetes is a common disorder which was currently spreading even to the kids and adults due to changing lifestyle and food habits Type dia...
