June 6, page 5: The bill to ban nontherapeutic use of medically important antibiotics in farm animals is H.R. 965 in the 112th Congress. I was pleased to see the article “Shock to the System” in which ...

New research has systematically screened thousands of "filler" ingredients previously thought to be inert that are added to common drugs. The findings reveal several dozen of these compounds may ...

Although the therapeutic components of drugs get most of the attention, fillers called excipients make up the bulk of most drugs. Excipients act as preservatives or contain active ingredients within ...

Although inactive ingredients enhance a drug product’s physical properties and have been deemed safe, clinical reports documenting adverse reactions caused by excipients have been increasing. 1 In ...

Excipients are chemical additives to medications. They are incorporated into all kinds of pharmaceuticals to fulfill formulation-related functions while remaining therapeutically inert. However, in a ...

A series of tests including computational predictions, biological assays, and live-animal studies has revealed that while the majority of inactive drug ingredients are indeed inert, many can interact ...

The Drugs Consultative Committee (DCC), the advisory committee that advises the Central and state governments on matters related to uniform implementation of drugs regulations, has agreed with a ...