3d printing pills
P&G Closer to Customizing Drug Tablets Thanks to 3D Printing
American multinational Procter and Gamble (P&G) is breaking ground in personalized medicine. Committed to delivering consumer-centric creations, researchers at the company’s Singapore Innovation Center (SgIC) have teamed up with the…
FDM 3D Printing for Personalized Solid Dosage Forms
International researchers continue to explore patient-specific treatment, detailing the findings of their study in the recently published ‘Personalized 3D Printed Medicines: Optimizing Material Properties for Successful Passive Diffusion Loading of…
Aston University Researchers Review Current Approaches in 3D Printing Solid Oral Dosage Forms
UK researchers from Aston University are studying impacts on the pharmaceutical industry, releasing their findings in the recently published ‘Current formulation approaches in design and development of solid oral dosage…
Perdose, 3D Printing Pills: A Neglected $100 Billion Business Opportunity
With the excitement around bioprinting and 3D printing for implantology, we are overlooking a humungous opportunity in 3D printing in medicine. My use of the word humungous in a blog…
New Research Paper Takes In-Depth Look at Challenges and Benefits of 3D Printed Pharmaceuticals
It might seem like a strange idea when you first think about it, but using 3D printing to fabricate pharmaceuticals actually makes sense for several beneficial reasons, including lower production…
Why Would We Think About 3D Printing Pharmaceuticals?
A few months ago coming home from a conference, the cardiac physician queued alongside me to board the flight back to the US was skeptical about the merits of 3D…
Study Shows High Accuracy of Medicinal 3D Printing
A study led by University of Cambridge Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Daniel Markl and Chemical Engineering professor Dr. Axel Zeitler demonstrated the viability of 3D printing technology in structuring and printing active…
Imagine Taking Just One Pill a Day for All That Ails You with 3D Printed Meds
Amidst the long list of pluses, there are a few things that are controversial in 3D printing with some of the light and dark and pros and cons frustratingly intertwined,…
3D Printing Customized Pills May Lead to More Effective Medical Care
In a presentation to American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (AHASS) a group of medical researchers from North Carolina’s Wake Forest University developed a method to 3D print custom medications in…
The FDA Approves the First 3D Printed Pill to Help Prevent Epileptic Seizures
One of the largest hurdles that healthcare practitioners treating epilepsy need to overcome is often with their own patients. It turns out that an estimated 30 to 50 percent of…
