Pharmaceutical Tech

Feb212022 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Diffractor Maintenance Tips

Assay and Screening, BioPharma, Laboratory Instrumentation

When you are using a diffractor on a regular basis, you want to ensure that you maintain it as well as you possibly can. Good, correct, and proper maintenance will ensure that your diffractor lasts your business or company for many years to come. However, where do you start with diffractor maintenance? What do you need to be looking out for, and what should you be focusing tour time on? Cooling Maintenance Always check the condition of the cooler. The X-ray tube heats up, and when it is operating, you want to be sure that it is not overheating.The ideal water-in temperature for X-ray tubes is 20-25 °C and up to 30°C in warm and humid conditions. It is best to always be above the dew point An x-ray tube must always be properly cooled and, if it does not, you may well experien...

Feb142022 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Going Remote: A Look at How the Medical Industry Is Shifting Post-COVID

Pharma Industry, Pharmaceutical Business Development

The challenges of COVID caused every industry to pivot, introducing remote work and adjusting even basic operations. However, the medical sector faced unique challenges in making this shift, as treating patients, protecting health data, and performing lab-based research all present particular difficulties. As the initial two weeks of shifting to remote work stretched into two years of a new reality, working in an office is no longer necessary. As a result, many medical IT departments expedited technological upgrades and began rolling out innovative new processes to allow employees to remain remote as the pandemic drags on. New Opportunities for the Medical Industry to Go Remote One of the pandemic’s surprises was how remote and hybrid working benefitted patients and cut overall co...

Mar102020 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Chronic Disease Is What Primary Care Is Mostly Made Of—Here’s How FNP Programs Should Be Preparing You for It

Articles

Walk into any primary care clinic in the country and look at the appointment schedule. A significant portion of those visits—often the majority—involve patients managing diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or some combination of all three. These aren't acute presentations requiring emergency intervention; they're ongoing relationships between a provider and a patient working together to slow disease progression, manage symptoms, prevent complications, and maintain quality of life over years or decades. For family nurse practitioners, chronic disease management isn't a subspecialty. It's the core of the job. This reality makes the chronic disease curriculum in any FNP program worth examining carefully. For nurses considering FNP online programs Texas and elsewhere, understand...

Feb272020 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Automation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Benefits of Automated Cell Counters

Articles

The pharmaceutical industry is popular for implementing a deliberate approach concerning new technologies. Automated cell counters involve crucial tools used in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and bioprocessing. This is especially because drug manufacturing usually involves strict regulatory controls, thus the need for automation in the manufacturing process. Automated cell counters help keep track of manufacturing approaches, thus guaranteeing reliability. Also, they elevate precision in cell counting. This article explains the benefits offered by automated cell counters. Improved Precision Understanding cell count is critical in the biopharmaceutical industry. Precision involves the closeness of recurrent measurements to each other. T...

Aug102018 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Working With a Genetic Counselor for Prenatal Care

Articles

Genetic counselors are healthcare professionals who work with couples and individuals for a variety of reasons, including: Prenatal care: Helping women and/or couples who are planning a pregnancy, or who are pregnant, learn more about their pregnancy. Pediatric care: Diagnosing a child who shows physical signs of a genetic condition. Adult risk assessment of inherited genetic disease: Helping individuals understand if they are at risk of passing on a gene associated with a certain genetic condition to their children. Cancer risk assessment: Helping individuals understand whether they have inherited a gene that may increase their risk of developing a certain type of cancer. This article will explore the reasons why women and couples may seek help from a genetic counselor ...

Aug12017 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Would Virtual Clinical Trials Work?

Clinical Trials

Further into the future, clinical trials to test the efficacy of new drugs would not require the test subject physically traveling to a clinical research facility or hospital. Mobile devices – smart phones, watches or glasses with inbuilt wearable sensors – would be enough to connect one to the clinical research study and report general information and adverse events. These sensors would record data such as body temperature and blood glucose levels, which would be sent to the Electronic Data Capture (EDC) record. The clinician would then visit the subject at home for drug administration and follow-up. One could even postpone or pre-pone the visit using automated reminders in their devices but within a time frame permitted by the study protocol. The future of pharmaceutic...

Jul252017 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Issues with Detecting Counterfeit Drugs

Drug Counterfeiting

Counterfeit medicines have been pervading the pharmaceutical industry, with a sharp increase by 51% between the years 2011 and 2015 as per the Pharmaceutical Security Institute in Vienna. The high reimbursement costs of medicines due to the higher R&D risks have attracted a massive chain of drug racketeers that sell spurious medicines at prices too good to believe. Even legitimate pharmaceutical supply chains, including community and online pharmacies, haven’t been spared by adulterine medicines. Counterfeit drugs pose a serious health threat to the public and cause serious financial damages to pharmaceutical companies. Fake medicines are of two kinds – contaminated, contain the wrong or no active ingredient; or could contain the right active ingredient at the wrong dos...

Jul112017 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

The Future of Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Research and Development

The inter linking of medicine and technology is paving way for newer opportunities in pharmaceutical medication, surgery, and health monitoring. Medicine is increasingly being interspersed with fields such as computer science, nanotechnology and biotechnology to give hybrid fields that are slowly taking over traditional pharmaceuticals. Some of these fields are set to redefine the future of pharmaceuticals. Precision Medicine Precision medicine is a field that attempts at discovering the biological basis of disease using clinical and molecular information of a patient, obtained by converting DNA into data through genome sequencing. This data is used for identifying specific gene abnormalities that help understand which types of patients a drug would be most effective on, an...

Jul42017 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Dealing With Vaccine Allergies

Cure & Prevention, Pharma Treatment, Vaccinations and Antidotes

According to a research conducted by the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), allergic reactions to vaccines are extremely rare among people. The most dangerous form of reaction to vaccine components is anaphylaxis shock. However, the redeeming quality of a vaccine-triggered allergy is that it is temporary, which means most patients outgrow it within a matter of two to five But these allergies and the myths surrounding them are often used to avoiding immunization altogether, which can have severe consequences for the patient and their progeny. As per experts in the field, the most common symptom of an allergic reaction to vaccines is fever, which shouldn’t contraindicate future doses. However, any other serious symptom must be reported to concerned au...

Jun222017 by Pharmaceutical TechNo Comments

Gene Therapy For Disease-Free Society

Biotechnology, Cure & Prevention, Medicine

As per several genome research organizations, a sizeable percentage of diseases acquired by newborns are genetic, which means the diseases were acquired through hereditary or mutations. In simpler terms, when the egg and the sperm (genetic material) fuse, the embryo formed will acquire some hereditary traits that may carry diseases. A random mutation, although rare, may cause an extremely rare genetic condition. Rather than making futile attempts at discovering newer drugs for genetic disorders, in May 1989, scientists made the first successful attempt at modifying human DNA by injecting favourable genes into the nucleus of the cell. This method, called gene therapy, ever since has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Coupled with the latest genetic editing tool called CRISPR/C...