Many orally disintegrating tablets have recently been developed to improve oral ingestion and usability and are widely administered clinically, resulting in improved quality of life for patients. Since orally disintegrating tablets rapidly disintegrate in the mouth, the masking of unpleasant taste is important. We investigated the masking of the taste of furosemide (FU) as a model drug with cor...

Advance in novel drug delivery system aims to enhance the safety and efficacy of the drug molecule by formulating a dosage form being for the administration. 1 Difficulty in swallowing is experienced by patient such as pediatric, geriatric, bedridden, disabled and mentally ill, including motion sickness and sudden episodes of allergic attacks, hence resulting in higher incidence of non-complian...

background: orally disintegrating tablets (odts) are a modern form of tablets that when placed in the oral cavity, disperses rapidly. these tablets have advantages, particularly good applications for children and old patients who have a complication in chewing or swallowing solid dosage forms. the aim of this study was to design, formulate, and evaluate the physicochemical properties of 5 mg mo...

Article history: Received on: 06/01/2014 Revised on: 22/01/2014 Accepted on: 12/02/2014 Available online: 27/02/2014 Orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) have greatly increased dosage forms which have remarkable impact on the patient compliance especially for the pediatric, geriatric and psychiatric patients with deglutition disorders. Several technologies either conventional or patented based ...

Risperidone is a white to slightly beige powder. It is practically insoluble in water, freely soluble in methylene chloride, and soluble in methanol and 0.1 N HCl. RISPERDAL® tablets are available in 0.25 mg (dark yellow), 0.5 mg (red-brown), 1 mg (white), 2 mg (orange), 3 mg (yellow), and 4 mg (green) strengths. Inactive ingredients are colloidal silicon dioxide, hypromellose, lactose, magnesi...

Its empirical formula is C15H19N5•C7H6O2, representing a molecular weight of the free base of 269.4. Rizatriptan benzoate is a white to off-white, crystalline solid that is soluble in water at about 42 mg per mL (expressed as free base) at 25°C. MAXALT Tablets and MAXALT-MLT* Orally Disintegrating Tablets are available for oral administration in strengths of 5 and 10 mg (corresponding to 7.265 ...

The appropriate prescribing of paediatric dosage forms is paramount in providing the desired therapeutic effect alongside successful medication adherence with the paediatric population. Often it is the opinion of the healthcare practitioner that dictates which type of dosage form would be most appropriate for the paediatric patient, with liquids being both the most commonly available and most c...

NEW DRUG APPROVALS Adzenys XR-ODT for ADHD The FDA has given the green light to Adzenys XR-ODT (Neos Therapeutics) for the treatment of attention -deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in patients 6 years of age and older. With this approval, the product is the first extended-release orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) for this indication. Adzenys XR-ODT contains amphetamine loaded onto a mixtu...