ISSN: 2474-9214
Authors: Fizza Batool*
Pharmaceutical field encloses a wide number of themes from drug discovery to manufacturing and regulatory approval and involves several disciplines such as chemistry, biology, physics, biotechnology, pharmaceutics and engineering. In the last 40 years the interest and scientific literature about pharmaceutical research has rapidly grown. Indeed, the attention on public health has been increasing, probably due to the birth of many new diseases and allergies, problems associated to antibiotic resistance, more cases of cancer associated to environment and wrong lifestyles, etc. Therefore, which are the current trends in Pharmaceutical Research? For sure, to overcome the problems that have arisen in the recent years, new drugs and overall new drug delivery systems have been studying from public as well as private institutions. DDS carry and protect a pharmaceutical compound improving its administration and efficacy. Oral pills and injections are the most common formulations that are used nowadays. Since the oral and intravenous administration routes show some drawbacks such as poor bioavailability and noncompliance of the patient respectively, new alternative administration ways have been explored (i.e. pulmonary, transdermal, ocular, and nasal).
Keywords: FDA; DDS; Drug; Nanoparticles
