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5 March 2018

RETHINKING PACKAGING WITH R&D

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Soumyanath Mishra
Head & DGM, Packaging Development-F&D
Mankind Research Centre
soumyanath.mishra@mankindpharma.com

Packaging is an important component in the development of various drug formulations in pharmaceutical industry. Packaging of pharmaceutical dosage forms has a close relationship between a pharmaceutical preparation and its package which is a major concern to the drug stability and safety. The selection of Packaging material is made on the basis of its efficacy and performance characteristics in preserving the quality, potency and safety of the pharmaceutical products. The stability testing of pharmaceutical products and compatibility testing of packaging materials is an integral part of R&D in pharmaceutical industry. The stability of a drug in solid and liquid dosage forms depends on the efficacy of the packaging materials to protect the drug from chemical degradation and changes in physical characteristics such as appearance, hardness, friability, dissolution, disintegration, weight variation, moisture contents and mechanical durability.

Read more about Cardiac Stent : Current market scenario and further price cut

Indian Price regulator, NPPA has again reduced Cardiac stent prices after they price capped for around 85% in last year February 2017. Before price capped, bare metal stents (BMS) were used to be sold for Rs45,000 and drug-eluting stents (DES) for Rs1.2 lakhs. Well, in Feb 2017 their prices are reduced to 7400 and 30180, respectively. And obviously, companies dealing with stents were baffled and left with no clue. This article will discuss the market scenario in India after price cap up to recent time. The broad discussion is going on whether to include DES in speacial category of stent and allow manufacturers to drive more prices from it.

2 February 2018

NEXUS BETWEEN MEDICAL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES : BOON OR BANE FOR PATIENTS

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ABOUT AUTHORS
BALVINDER SINGH*¹, PAWAN JALWAL ¹, VIKASH KUMAR RUHIL²
¹Shri Baba Mastnath Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research,
Baba Mastnath University, Asthal Bohar, Rohtak, Haryana, India
²P.D.M. College of Pharmacy, P.D.M. University, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India
^*balvindersinghpharmaco@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
What started as imparting education to medical healthcare professionals, regarding pharmaceutical products by various pharmaceutical companies, has now become a grave, giant problem in the category of bribery and to be more precise, corruption in this 21st century. Now detailing of pharmaceutical company product has included giving free physician’s sample packs, prescription pads, pen and includes an entire range of latest electronic gazettes of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, AC, Refrigerator, LED TV, sponsoring a conference, refreshment to all expenses like return air ticket with free boarding and lodging in national or international tourist spot or hilly area. The real problem is that nothing comes free; all these expenses will add to cost of medicines and medical fraternity will heed least to quality of medicine. Now the market is flooded with abundant, spurious, sub-standard medicines; as pharmaceutical companies have the confidence of selling these products by shelling huge, attractive offers/gifts to some of greedy doctors, who fall prey to their lucrative offers. In this article, the aim is to probe this association or rather; we can call nexus between the medical healthcare professionals and various pharmaceutical companies. Various aspects are covered in this article, like….How this association works? What is the modus operandi and rationale of this association? Various angles of this association; from medical healthcare professionals, medical councils, pharmaceutical companies and society point of views are covered.

1 February 2018

BANKRUPTCY IN PHARMACEUTICALS

ABOUT AUTHORS
Rajesh Vagh
PharmaTutor Edu Labs
Surat, Gujarat
rajesh@pharmatutor.org

Bankruptcy may be a new term or less familiar with most of you but it is of higher importance. Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors. We may consider it as a white-collar fraud. First let me clear that bankrupt can be defined as different act in various jurisdiction but generally bankruptcy statutes involve concealment of assets, concealment or destruction of documents, conflicts of interest, fraudulent claims, false statements or declarations, and fee fixing or redistribution arrangements etc. Bankruptcy fraud is a federal crime in the USA and India.

1 February 2018

HOW WOULD A NATION LIKE INDIA BEAR EXPENSES OF INSULINS AND NON-INSULIN ANTI-DIABETICS IN COMING YEARS?

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Amit Gangwal
Director, Arogya Retail
Indore, MP, India
Gangwal.amit@gmail.com

Perhaps insulin is the only molecule or medicinal molecule which has helped scientist/s to claim Nobel Prize at least for 3 times. Frederick Banting & J.J.R. Macleod were awarded with Nobel Prize in 1923 for the discovery of insulin. Another Nobel, in 1958, went into the account of British molecular biologist Frederick Sanger for determining the primary structure of insulin. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was selected for Nobel of 1977 for the development of the radioimmunoassay for insulin.

16 November 2017

SPERMICIDAL CONDOM AND RISK OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN FEMALE

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Priyatama V. Powar
Pharmaceutics Department
Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Pharmacy,
Akurdi, Pune-44
priyatama.powar@gmail.com

Urinary Tract Infections are common health problems in clinical practice in all age groups both male and female cause by bacteria that affects urinary system. Occurrence and frequency of Urinary Tract Infection is higher in female as compare to male because of mainly following reasons

6 October 2017

HOW DIGITALIZATION CAN BE UTILIZED FOR BETTER MARKETING & SALES IN PHARMACEUTICALS

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Rajesh Vagh
PharmaTutor Edu Labs
Surat, Gujarat, India

So far, medical representatives are assets for pharma sales but need of time and competitions are asking for variant ways to promote their products. Patient portals, apps and online communities should be developed with more intensity and utilize technologies to improve customer experience.

3 October 2017

IS THE CHEMOTHERAPY REALLY NECESSARY FOR SOLID TUMORS?

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Dr. Vishwas B. Chavan
Aditya Jyot Hospital & Foundation
vishwaschavan2003@yahoo.co.in

Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world today. According to one study, there were 14.1 million new cases of cancer and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide in 2012. The most commonly diagnosed cancers were lung (1.82 million), breast (1.67 million), and colorectal (1.36 million). The most common cancer deaths are due to lung cancer (1.6 million deaths), liver cancer (745,000 deaths), and stomach cancer (723,000 deaths) (Ferlay, J. et al, 2015).

3 August 2017

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES – RISE OF NEW BUSINESS FRONTIERS

ABOUT AUTHOR
Rajesh S Vagh
PharmaTutor Edu Labs,
Surat, Gujarat, India
rajesh@pharmatutor.org

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are antibodies that are made by identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique parent cell. Monoclonal antibodies can have amonovalent affinity, in that they bind to the same epitope.

23 July 2017

GATEWAYS TO DRUG ABUSE: A BRIEF REPORT ON PUNJAB & HARYANA

ABOUT AUTHORS
Piyush Tripathi*, Abhishek Arora
GMSCL,
GUJARAT(INDIA)
^*piyushtripathi1992@rediffmail.com

Drug addiction is a serious problem in one country that is known for its culture, traditions & social values all over the world. The country where people commit suicide either because of love affairs or due to drug addiction related issues. Undoubtedly, this writing is talking about India.

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