From Delivery to Your Stomach to Your Intestines, Enteric Coating Can Help
“Enteric coating is a useful strategy for the oral delivery of drugs like insulin which rapidly degrade in the [...]
From the Mouths of Babes: Solubility in Pediatric Oral Drugs
“Compound solubility serves as a surrogate indicator of oral biopharmaceutical performance. Between infancy and adulthood, marked compositional changes in gastrointestinal (GI) [...]
No Sugar-Coating Needed: GI Disorders Need Enteric Coating
“Enteric coatings are used to reduce gastrointestinal side effects and control the release properties of oral medications.” – Niwa, et [...]
Drug Delivery to the Small Intestine Can Lead to Big Results
“The small intestine is the most common target site due to shortest transit time and a large surface area [...]
Poorly Soluble Drugs: The New Norm?
“An estimated 40% of approved drugs and nearly 90% of the developmental pipeline drugs consist of poorly soluble molecules. [...]
The Modified-Release Panacea: Multiparticulates
“Among all the systems used for controlled release, multiparticulate systems are the most commonly used and can offer many [...]
Intraympanic Injections Provide Local Delivery of Disease Fighting Drugs to the Inner Ear
“Medicines, called antivirals, may decrease the risk of health problems and hearing loss in some infected babies who show [...]
Putting Patients in Control: How Controlled-release Drugs Help Patients
“Controlled-release (CR) drug-delivery systems continue to play an important role in the treatment of diseases” – Slew, Pharmaceutical Technology. [...]
Breathe Easy: the Orbis Solution to Nasal Polyps
“Everyone with nasal polyps should try treatment with medicines, before considering surgery (unless there is any doubt about whether [...]
The New Control Group: Types of Controlled-release Drugs
“Controlled drug delivery is one which delivers the drug at a predetermined rate, for locally or systemically, for a [...]
