September 3, 2019
care delivery

Innovations in Care Delivery

Let´s Start with the Definition The integrated management and delivery of quality and safe health services to people in need, along the continuum of disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease-management, rehabilitation and palliative care services, through the different levels and sites of care within the health system, is the universally accepted […]
August 8, 2019
antibiotics

Innovations in Antibiotics – Hope or Too Little Too Late?

A brief history Even though Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic penicillin in 1928, it was introduced into the market as a commercial therapeutic for bacterial infection, only in 1940. It was Gerhard Domaghk who developed the first commercial antibacterial Prontosil, a sulfonamide, in 1930s. The introduction of penicillin marked […]
July 29, 2019
drug_delivery

Innovations in Drug Delivery System – Injectables

Since 2015, the global injectable/parenteral drug delivery market is growing at a compounded rate of 11.8% and is forecasted to reach $640 million by 2021. It has the potential to soon eclipse oral delivery as the primary route of administration of pharmaceuticals, driven by the increased use of biological drugs.1 […]