The physical characterization of pharmaceutical excipients provides data that can be predictive in nature regarding the performance of final dosage forms such as tablets, capsules and transdermals.

The pharmaceutical industry depends on quality and reliability, especially within the manufacturing and application of pharmaceutically active substances or excipients. There are two core objectives ...

With ground breaking research innovations, novel drug formulations, drug development techniques and availability of sophisticated technology, it is no secret that active pharmaceutical ingredients are ...

A medicine’s so-called ‘inactive ingredients’ can have dire consequences without the appropriate framework for oversight and control. Credit: Daniel Wilson/Alamy You’ve got a headache, so you take ...

Although inactive ingredients enhance a drug product’s physical properties and have been deemed safe, clinical reports documenting adverse reactions caused by excipients have been increasing. 1 In ...

New research has systematically screened thousands of "filler" ingredients previously thought to be inert that are added to common drugs. The findings reveal several dozen of these compounds may ...

The medicines we swallow contain inactive ingredients, and among those ingredients are 38 known allergens. Are they a cause of concern? Perhaps, but just for a very, very few of us. The pills and ...

Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Voxalytic GmbH have developed a new method that allows, for the first time, the elucidation of the chiral structure of molecules—the exact ...

The proliferation of quality-management standards in manufacturing is such that each new document seems like one step deeper into an arcane world of industrial measurement. But a new standard from the ...

WHEN YOU TAKE a pill, it's not all medicine. It says so right there on the box of your over-the-counter drug—if you are self-medicating—or in the fine print of the patient information sheet for your ...

Most approved medications have inactive ingredients that could cause problems for individuals with allergies or intolerances to those ingredients, researchers say. Those problems can add up when ...