10. February 2017

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the process by which a placebo formulation was designed for an oral solid dose product that would be dispensed to the patient as a fast-dissolve tablet. The tablet is added to water and the resulting solution is dosed as a antibiotic mouthwash. Placebo matching was required not only for the tablet but also for the solution which the patient took. BACKGROUND Clinical studies on solid dose products may require a placebo that is devoid of an active pharmaceutical...

24. May 2016

To evaluate the influence of different variables on tablet formulations containing enalapril maleate and indapamide as active substances, two separate experimental designs were employed: one for evaluating powder properties and the other for tablet characteristics. Because of the low active pharmaceutical ingredient content, it was hypothesized that both powder and tablet properties could be determined only by the characteristics of excipients. In order to test this assumption, both...