Drug developers are increasingly using topical dosage forms for numerous reasons, but several factors must be considered to optimize the API's functionality including excipient selection. Trends and Formulation Strategies for Topical Drugs explores this topic and other areas of interest to developers.
This article examines how modern automation platforms create the digital foundation required for Pharma 4.0 by integrating manufacturing systems, centralized data management, Industrial Internet of Things connectivity, electronic batch production records, and AI-driven analytics.
Ron Scarboro, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, explains how cross-functional development, disciplined reformulation, and post-approval metrics can help proven medicines work in everyday use.
The FDA approves oral pritelivir for drug-resistant herpes sores in immunocompromised patients; what it means for antiviral development and manufacturing.
Equivalence test using two one-sided tests are widely used for demonstrating the comparability of treatment effects in different research fields. The method described in the manuscript aims to use simulations in Microsoft Excel to compute power for 2 one-sided tests for two groups with unequal variances.