BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical representatives provide medicines information on their promoted products to doctors. However, studies have shown that the quality of this information is often low. No study has assessed the medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Malaysia and no recent evidence in Australia is present. We aimed to compare the provision of medicine...

background for the purpose of understanding the food and drug administration’s (fda’s) concerns regarding online promotion of prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers, this study examines notices of violations (novs) and warning letters issued by the fda to pharmaceutical manufacturers.   methods the fda’s warning letters and novs, which were issued to pharmaceutical companies over a...

Iran`s pharmaceutical products market as one of the major markets of the country has been faced with fluctuations over time. Suitable market selection is necessary for stability of pharmaceutical exports. Study of the global market structure of this product leads to policy makers in development, production, and trade of pharmaceuticals and finally increases country’s share of the world pharmace...

Chitosan has varieties of applications in both pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. To explore the situation of chitosan awareness and usage in Thailand is an essential information for product development from chitosan. Entrepreneurs or their representatives from GMP certified pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturers were interviewed during June 2007 to February 2008. One hundred and five fro...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a product-analysis laboratory exercise in teaching students the importance of quality in pharmaceutical compounding. DESIGN Second-year pharmacy students (N=77) participated in a pharmaceutical compounding laboratory exercise and subsequently analyzed their final product using ultraviolet (UV) spectrometry. ASSESSMENT Reflection, survey instruments, ...

The research process for new drug is complicated, time-consuming, and costly. Thousands of chemical compounds must be made and tested in an effort to find one that can achieve a desirable result. It may take approximately ten years to study and test a new drug before it can be approved for the general public. However, in today's pharmaceutical industry drug delivery has become keys in drug prod...

Early studies on the factors that influence the operating performance within the biotech/pharmaceutical industry mainly focused on the establishment of technological capability or the effects of innovation in terms of increasing competitiveness. Nevertheless, there are few studies on the process, marketing and strategic direction for innovation concerning biotechnology transfer. Due to technolo...

Pharmaceutical industry is showing a positive approach towards Quality by Design (QbD) for discovery, development, and commercial manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products. Regulatory agencies are providing various guidelines for pharmaceutical industry to build quality, safety and efficacy into their new biopharmaceutical products. Such concept became known as Quality by Design. To assess th...