Recent Advancements in Technologies Involved in Formulation Development

Pharmaceutical sciences are comprised of a wide number of areas including drug discovery, formulation development, testing, safety and miscellaneous regulatory affairs. In the last four decades, the literature in pharmaceutical drug development has been increased in a surprising manner. There is a continuous development of variety of formulations which are designed according to the patient compliance, physical compatibility, and therapeutic efficacy and to overcome the shortcomings or adverse effects of the pre-existing formulations. In the present study, authors have summarized different types of advancement involved in different types of dosage forms like adhesive tablets, gels, ointments, patches, fast dissolving tablets, mouth dissolving tablets, or dispersive tablets etc. The advances in technologies involved in them has also been discussed in brief