A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

A healthy diet is one mostly made up of foods high in the nutrients the body needs to function, like vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which are consistently linked to better heart function, ...

I drink a full glass of milk every day and eat cheese, but still, I am deficient in calcium. I include iron-rich foods in my diet to meet my daily requirement of iron, but I am still anemic. It is ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 23, 2024) In analyzing the interactions between neonicotinoid pesticides (NNPs) and microplastics (MPs), a recent study in The Science of The Total Environment finds that ...

Want to improve the nutritional benefits of your favourite foods? You may need to start thinking about bioavailability… We all want to get the most out of the food we eat, but there’s much more to ...

Upon ingestion, the new Enzian dosage form resides in the stomach for several hours and steadily delivers drug into the blood. This enables enhanced effectiveness of many life-saving drug therapies.

Marketed formulations of extended phenytoin sodium -- long a difficult medication to titrate because of its unique absorption and saturable elimination pharmacokinetics -- may not be bioequivalent, ...

Although efforts have been made to improve solubility, many poorly soluble drugs still reach the market. Peter Nielsen discusses new developments in solubilisation technology, which could help those ...