Research Insights
Research Insights section focuses on the cutting-edge and breakthrough research that is happening all over the world. Laboratories across the globe are working hard to develop drugs and therapies for various diseases and research insights directly from them add tremendous value.
Consumer concerns about paracetamol: a retrospective analysis of a medicines call centre
Abstract Objectives To identify consumer information needs about paracetamol the most commonly used analgesic and antipyretic worldwide Design Retrospective analysis of medicines questions from the public Set
When procedures meet practice in community pharmacies: qualitative insights from pharmacists and pharmacy support staff
Abstract Objectives Our aim was to explore how members of community pharmacy staff perceive and experience the role of procedures within the workplace in community pharmacies Setting Community pharmacies in England and Wales
General understanding on physical stability of pharmaceutical glasses
Although amorphous solid dispersion is one of the most important formulation technologies for poorly soluble drugs the number of marketed oral amorphous formulations is still limited The lack of an accelerated study protocol for predicting crystallization behavior of amorphous forms has been one of the biggest issues that inhibit their wide use Is...
Electrochemical studies for the determination of an antibiotic drug, D-cycloserine, in pharmaceutical and human biological samples
Abstract An antibiotic drug Dcycloserine CYS in phosphate buffer at different pH values was electrochemically studied using a gold electrode A wellresolved irreversible diffusioncontrolled voltammetric peak was obtained at V in a pH phosphate buffer solution with an ionic strength of M The experimental conditions such as the solution pH
Factors to consider in developing individual pharmaceutical product quality risk profiles useful to government procurement agencies
Abstract Governments that procure pharmaceutical products from an Essential Medicine List EML bear special responsibility for the quality of these products In this article we examine the possibility of developing a pharmaceutical product quality risk assessment scheme for use by government procurement officials We use the Chinese EML as a basis an...
Pharmaceutical interfaces: Drug development, performance, regulation and e-health
Interfaces have always been of concern with respect to the delivery of bioactives Interfaces within the delivery system that can affect stability are a concern however there are other interfaces of importance such as the interface with the body tissue the regulatory interface and the emerging interface when drug delivery is linked to ehealth applic...
Relation between safe use of medicines and Clinical Pharmacy Services at Pediatric Intensive Care Units
Abstract Objective Clinical Pharmacy Services CPS are considered standard of care and is endorsed by the Joint Commission International the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy In Brazil single experiences have been discreetly arising and the importance of these s
New frontiers in pharmaceutical analysis: A metabolomic approach to check batch compliance of complex products based on natural substances
Abstract Natural substances particularly medicinal plants and their extracts are still today intended as source for new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients APIs Alternatively they can be validly employed to prepare medicines food supplements or medical devices The most adopted analytical approach used to verify quality of natural substances like med...
Role of sTREM-1 in predicting mortality of infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Objectives Several studies have investigated the prognostic value of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells sTREM in patients with infection However the result was controversial Thus the purpose of the present metaanalysis was to determine the prognostic value of the sTREM
Biosensor-based engineering of biosynthetic pathways
Abstract Biosynthetic pathways provide an enzymatic route from inexpensive renewable resources to valuable metabolic products such as pharmaceuticals and plastics Designing these pathways is challenging due to the complexities of biology Advances in the design and construction of genetic variants has enabled billions of cells each possessing a sli...
