Abstract As the Sars-CoV2 pandemic continues to grow, researchers around world are urgently seeking new treatments prevent infection, cure those infected, or lessen severity of disease. Although there several recently approved vaccines, clinical trials underway “re-use” drugs normally indicated for other diseases. This teaching experience studies market 8 pharmaceutical products used fight (rem...

Background: Biopharmaceutical medicines represent a growing share of the global pharmaceutical market, and with many of these biopharmaceutical products facing loss of exclusivity rights, also biosimilars may now enter the biopharmaceutical market. Objectives: This study aims to identify and document which investment and development strategies are adopted by industrial players in the global bio...

pray-dried (SD) lactose was introduced to the pharmaceutical market in the 1960s as an excipient that enables direct compression of formulations in a simple manufacturing process (1). To this day, lactose remains one of the most popular excipients for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) whose dose makes them suitable for direct compression. Several manufacturers make and sell SD lactose, a...

We describe the emerging issues related to warnings with respect to pharmaceutical company use of the internet as a vehicle for direct-to-consumer marketing (DTC) and market research. We describe the various techniques pharmaceutical companies have used to exploit this new communications medium which permits two way exchange of information. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not issued ...

Cyclodextrins (CDs) have been considerably raised interest and attention in the pharmaceutical sciences due to their specific ability to form inclusion complexes with many drugs, leading to significant enhancements of the solubility, stability and bioavailability, as well as decrease in the bitterness and tissue irritation of the drugs (Carrier et al., 2007; Challa et al., 2005; Miller et al., ...