Tablets

Personalised medicines — creating ‘polypills’ in the local pharmacy

Patients require different combinations of drugs at different doses. Gino Martini explains how ‘polypills’ may enable patients to take one tablet containing the medicines and doses appropriate for them.…

Reformulated OxyContin reduces abuse but many addicts have switched to heroin

Reformulation of OxyContin into an abuse-deterrent formula has reduced its illicit use but has caused people to switch to other opioid drugs, a US study finds.…

Learn about dosage form design

‘Design and manufacture of pharmaceutical tablets’, by Reynir Eyjolfsson.…

The hidden calories in tablets

You've read the title and think the topic is a little bit silly. Who really cares about the calories in their medication? A surprising number of people on the internet apparently. But it was random interest, rather than hyper-concerned netizens, that had me researching the topic.…