BACKGROUND The European legislation prohibits prescription-only medicines' advertising but allows pharmaceutical companies to provide information to the public on health and diseases, provided there is no direct or indirect reference to a pharmaceutical product. Various forms of promotion have become increasingly common in Europe including "disease-oriented" campaigns. OBJECTIVES To explore e...

Increasingly, strategy scholars are exploring the relationships between innovation, competition, and the persistence of superior profits. Sustained high profitability may result when a firm repeatedly introduces valuable innovations that service previously unmet consumer demands. While the returns to the firm from each innovation may erode over time, innovation ensures that, overall, the firm m...

BACKGROUND When new pharmaceutical products appear on the market, physicians need to know whether they are likely to be useful in their practices. Physicians currently obtain most of their information about the market release and properties of new drugs from pharmaceutical industry representatives. However, the official information contained in the summary of product characteristics (SPCs) and ...

The composition and quality of packaging materials can have a critical impact on the performance, function, and production cost of pharmaceutical medications or drugs. Improper packaging can cause the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in medications to degrade faster, and have shorter shelf lives. Detecting problems, impurities, or incorrect polymer compositions early in the packaging pro...

Jill B. Conner, MS, PhD,a Raj Bawa, MS, PhD,b,c J. Michael Nicholas, PhD,a and Vera Weinstein, PhDd aTeva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Specialty Life Cycle Initiatives, Global Specialty Medicines, Overland Park, Kansas, USA bBawa Biotech LLC, Ashburn, Virginia, USA cDepartment of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA dTeva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd....

Despite the numerous uses of chitin and chitosan as new functional materials of high potential in various fields, they are still behind several directly compressible excipients already dominating pharmaceutical applications. There are, however, new attempts to exploit chitin and chitosan in co-processing techniques that provide a product with potential to act as a direct compression (DC) excipi...

Multiple stakeholders in the U.S. health care system are also paying closer attention than ever to the safety and efficacy of treatments and monitoring how pharmaceutical companies report the results of their clinical trials. A consequence of this scrutiny is the number of mass tort and product liability cases in which pharmaceutical companies’ analyses, interpretations and reporting of biologi...

Microencapsulation technology has been used from 1930s in packaging flavors and vitamins. Since the first commercial product was introduced for the carbonless copying paper, the technology has advanced to a new level. Various microencapsulation techniques are available nowadays, and the microencapsulated products are widely used in pharmaceutical, biomedical, agricultural, food, consumer produc...

Inter-disciplinary Program in Physiology, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Cell-based Drug and Health Product Development Research Unit., Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand D...

Background and objectives: Melasma is one of the most common pigmentary disorders. It has a considerable impact on quality of life. The treatment of melasma has still remained a challenge because the efficient treatment has not been proven until now and there is still a need to find new depigmenting products.Allium cepa L. and Cucumis melo L. seeds as well as ...