The demand for pharmaceutical excipients will rise majorly due to the increase in the use of generic drugs as well as the development of multi-functional excipients, according to a report by Market.us ...

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 ...

The global pharmaceutical excipients market, valued at USD 8.0 billion in 2021, is anticipated to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.80%, reaching approximately USD 11.8 billion by ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Union health ministry has notified an amendment to the Drugs Rules, 1945 to mandate inclusion of qualitative details of excipient into the data stored in the label of drug formulation products as ...

Stability is a critical factor in drug formulation, with implications for product quality, lifecycle management, and ...

In the world of modern medicine, most people focus on the active pharmaceutical ingredients, which are the chemicals that ...

Despite their passive treatment role, drug excipients sometimes are the active agent in recalls. In a presentation at the recent ExcipientFest, Steven Wolfgang of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation ...

Researchers headed by teams at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have developed what they describe as a ...