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How your skin tone could affect your meds

Perspective paper offers insights into impact of skin pigmentation on drug efficacy and safety
By Iqbal Pittalwala | | Science / Technology, Health
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Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud

Colorful nonpareils can uniquely identify drug capsules and counterfeit fashions
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
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Implantable piezoelectric polymer improves controlled release of drugs

Repeated tests showed a similar amount of drug release per activation, confirming robust control of release rate
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology
A piece of glass tubing bend like a tuning fork is used to measure dissolution of time release drugs

Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs

Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution
By Holly Ober | | Science / Technology