Dosage Forms

Cynthia A. Challener is a contributing editor to Pharmaceutical Technology.

Articles

Greater automation and the adoption of solid versus perforated pans are some recent advances.

Raising the Bar in Tablet Coating Equipment and Processing

Dynamic testing and advances in shear testing provide better insight into powder physical properties and external variables that affect powder behavior.

Multivariate Approaches for Powder Characterization

Crushing, fracturing, and bending tests quantify hardness.

Measuring Tablet Hardness: A Primer

Drug manufacturers today are increasingly challenged to find new, effective methods for the delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and many are discovering that orally disintegrating technologies can help.

Orally Disintegrating Tablets

Podcast interview with Nick Johnson, Strategic Marketing Director for Modified Release Technologies at Catalent Pharma Solutions

Patricia Van Arnum was executive editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

The rejection by India's Supreme Court on Novartis' Glivec/Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) and other recent case law raise important issues on patent strategies for solid forms.

Intellectual Property Battles in Solid-State Chemistry

Solid-state chemistry is an important part of drug development, and public research is advancing the field.

Academic and Public Partnerships in Solid-State Chemistry

Loss-in-weight feeders provide high accuracy for batch or continuous processes.

Using a Gravimetric Feeder to Dose Pharmaceutical Bulk Solids

Metrics Inc. offers Cleantaste technology, which enables polymer coating of individual drug crystals to produce particles sized 25 um to 125 um.

Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage