3d drug printing
The current world and technology have seen a lot of developments concerning 3D printing and this is fast becoming a norm in almost all industries. The medical field has not been left behind either.
The current world and technology have seen a lot of developments concerning 3D printing and this is fast becoming a norm in almost all industries. The medical field has not been left behind either. The biotechnology industry is currently researching further on printing of living cells. On the same vein, the 3D printing is being touted as the future of medicine and we are here to assure you that you will enjoy every bit of it, courtesy of our first-class medical facilities.
According to Trenfield et al. (2018), the technology is touted to be applicable across different fields and applications such as personalized drug dosing, complex drug release profile, customized implants and prostheses, anatomical models for surgical preparations, bio-printing of dosage tissues and organs as well as unique dosage forms.
In the year 2015, approval was granted for an epilepsy drug known as Spitam, created from 3D printers. The prints of the medicine are in powder form with a drug layer which makes is easily soluble than the average pills (Economidou et al., 2018).
Soon, the idea of queuing for hours at drug stores will be a thing of the past. With this new technology, all you have to do is emailing your prescription directly to a 3D printer at your home and have the drugs ready. You can choose to print them in any shape if you have issues with your kids not wanting to take drugs as seen in the report Awad et al. (2018). As from the year 2016, the value of 3D printing drugs has been on the rise, and the same trend is expected to continue up to the year 2025 as projected as shown in the graph below:
The projected global 3D printed drugs industry is as shown in the graph below, with North America, Asia Pacific and Europe among the greatest beneficiaries of the technology.
From the stats, it is clear that the world has already warmed up to the idea of 3D printing and at ******, we expect this to be a major force in the medical industry and applied to a great measure. All our facilities are ready for this technology and are slowly implementing it.
References
Awad, A., Trenfield, S. J., Goyanes, A., Gaisford, S., & Basit, A. W. (2018). Reshaping drug development using 3D printing. Drug discovery today, 23(8), 1547-1555.
Economidou, S. N., Lamprou, D. A., & Douroumis, D. (2018). 3D printing applications for transdermal drug delivery. International journal of pharmaceutics, 544(2), 415-424.
J., Awad, A., Goyanes, A., Gaisford, S., & Basit, A. W. (2018). 3D printing pharmaceuticals: drug development to frontline care. Trends in pharmacological sciences, 39(5), 440-451.