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Articles

Patient-Centric Clinical Trials: Improving Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity

Patientcentricity has spent a decade as a value statement in pharmaceutical annual reports and comparatively little time as an operating discipline That gap is now closing not because the argument became more persuasive but because the economics and the regulatory environment stopped tolerating the alternative

Fundamentals of Clinical Pharmacology: Understanding Drug Actions and Ensuring Safety

Clinical pharmacology offers the interface between the philosophies of pharmacology and its application in the actual sense in patient care Fundamentally it is the science which examines the activities of drugs how drugs communicate with biological systems and how such communications result in treatment outcomes or adverse events Clinical pharmacology principles are needed to make sense of how m...

Role of Excipients in Drug Formulation: Functions, Types, and Applications

Whenever we consider medicines we tend to immediately jump into thinking about the active pharmaceutical ingredients APIs the substances that have therapeutic effects However APIs are not enough to develop stable effective and patientfriendly medicines This is where pharmaceutical excipients would come in The importance of excipients in the case of pharmaceuticals can go well beyond the level

The Top 15 Pharma Blogs and Publications in the World

To the extent that it is recognized as a vital source of information the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on credible blogs and publications These platforms not only provide insights into the latest research and trends but also foster discussions that can influence policy and practice within the healthcare sector

Leveraging Blockchain for Drug Traceability and Security in Europe

The area of interest in the pharmaceutical products in the past couple of years has been in the area of traceability and security Recently there has been an increase in fake drugs as well as advanced supply chain management making it difficult to tell the actual quality of the manufactured drugs

Ethical Standards and Responsible Decision-Making in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Picture this a new drug hits the market promising relief for millions But behind that promise lies a web of decisions about pricing clinical trial design marketing claims and data transparency

Techno Trends

UGA researchers develop oral drug candidate targeting drug-resistant malaria

Researchers from the University of Georgia UGA and the University of Illinois Chicago have developed a new oral antimalarial drug candidate that could help address drugresistant malaria

Projects

Evonik Launches US$94 Million (EUR 80 million) Biotechnology Expansion in Slovakia

Evonik has commenced construction of a new biotechnology expansion at its Fermas facility in Slovensk upa Slovakia The development is part of an approximately US million investment EUR million

Research Insights

One-month physicochemical stability study of idarubicin prepared in polyolefin-type bags for the treatment of hematological diseases

Idarubicine is a mainstay of the treatment strategy for hematological cancer The literature lacks stability data that comply with current preparation practices and recommendations for conducting stability studies

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Post-Translational Modifications in Drug Discovery: From Molecular Regulation to Clinical Impact

For decades the central dogma of molecular biology has anchored our understanding of cellular function DNA to RNA to protein But this linear view is incomplete A growing body of evidence shows that much of biologys