Flexibility in Drug Product Development: A Perspective.

The process of bringing a drug to market involves innumerable decisions to refine a concept into a final product. The final product goes through extensive research and development to meet the target product profile and to obtain a product that is manufacturable at scale. Historically, this process often feels inflexible and linear, as ideas and development paths are eliminated early on to allow focus on the workstream with the highest probability of success.

Quantifying Pharmaceutical Formulations from Proton Detected Solid-State NMR under Ultrafast Magic Angle Spinning.

Probing form conversions of active pharmaceutical ingredients in solid dosages is critical for understanding the physicochemical stability of drug substances in formulations. The multicomponent and low drug loading nature of drug products often results in challenges to quantify the phase stability, at a low detection limit and with the chemical resolution that differentiate drug molecules and excipients, for routine laboratory techniques. Recent advancement of ultrafast magic angle spinning (UF-MAS) enables proton-detected solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) techniques to characterize pharmaceutical materials with enhanced resolution and sensitivity.

Modeling the Air Pressure Increase Within a Powder Bed During Compression-A Step Toward Understanding Tablet Defects.

The cause of tablet defects, such as cracking, bubbling, and capping, during compression is currently not fully understood. Prior experimental work suggests that an increase in internal air pressure on powder compression can directly contribute to the formation of cracks within a tablet. The present study examines the air pressure increase on compression in a fully two-dimensional axisymmetric tablet geometry while being coupled to a plasticity model describing the evolution of tablet relative density on consolidation.

The factor structure of the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) following traumatic brain injury.

Quality of life is a key indicator of outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Research has reported several different factor structures for the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI, Frisch, 1994). We compared the fit of existing factor models and examined the clinical utility of the QOLI's factors in a sample of Australian adults with TBI.

Stable radical content and anti-radical activity of roasted Arabica coffee: from in-tact bean to coffee brew.

The roasting of coffee beans generates stable radicals within melanoidins produced by non-enzymatic browning. Roasting coffee beans has further been suggested to increase the antioxidant (AO) capacity of coffee brews. Herein, we have characterized the radical content and AO capacity of brews prepared from Coffea arabica beans sourced directly from an industrial roasting plant.