No: 687 Health and Hygiene 329 EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF TABLET SPLITTING ON THE ACCURACY OF DRUG DOSING H.S. Sellahewa and H.M.D.R. Herath* Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka *[email protected] Tablet splitting is commonly used in pharmacy practice. There are many reasons to split tablets such as to get the prescribed dose, to ad...

the present investigation was designed to formulate a natural tablet for the treatment of vaginal candidiasis in order to eliminate side effects that are caused by existing antifungal drugs. curcumin has promising antifungal activity in comparison with the existing azole antifungal drugs. bioadhesive curcumin vaginal tablets were prepared by direct compression with different ratios of biadhesiv...

In this study 50 samples of ecstasy tablets seized in Iran during the period of 2007 through 2008 were examined and their physical characteristics (appearance, marking, scored/not scored, color, weight, diameter, thickness) were determined. In order to determine the chemical characteristics of these tablets, color tests (Marquis test, Simon’s test, Chen’s test and Gallic acid test), Thin Layer ...

Deposition of behenic acid (B.A) mono and bilayers onto gold coated surfaces was performed by Langmuir-Blodget dip-casting technique. Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) and ellipsometry methods were employed for investigation of the monolayer and bilayer films. The adsorption of the biologically important molecule Concanavalin A (Con A) from bulk solution to these monolayers and bilayers as we...

This study investigates the impact of relative air humidity and temperature on the stability of imidapril hydrochloride (IMD) tablets. For this purpose the forced degradation test was used and the following environmental conditions were employed: RH = 76.4% and the temperature range of 313 - 333 K. For the determination of IMD content in the analyzed samples a reversed-phase high performance li...

Many antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are extended-release (ER) tablets, such that an entire day’s dose is taken only once or twice daily. A patient taking four levetiracetam ER 500 mg tablets twice daily was alarmed when, after switching from a generic manufactured by Sun to a generic manufactured by Lupin, ER tablet remnants appeared as intact tablets in his stool, suggesting no drug was absorbed. ...