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Articles examine package design, child-resistance, senior-friendly, and tamper-evident features, as well as the materials and machinery used to develop packages that assist patient adherance to prescribed medicine regimens.

Financial incentives to encourage patient compliance

Noncompliant patients are adding to healthcare costs. Recent reports look to address that issue by paying patients to take their meds and comply with treatment regimens....

Drug delivery device developments

Film strips, electrical current, silicon particles, and gold nanorods: Futuristic drug delivery methods are in use or in development today....

New frontier emerging in use of packaging to differentiate pharmaceuticals

The time has come to view packaging as more than just a container, but a value-added element that can improve patient outcomes and offer on-shelf differentiation for pharmaceutical manufacturers....

Nurse medication errors and the role of packaging

Sixty percent of nurses polled identified look-a-like drugs and packaging as the sixth-leading cause of medication errors....

Video: Pharmaceutical adherence packaging machines

• third-generation pharmaceutical Blister Card Folder/Wallet Card machines emphasize modular stations and devices for flexibility and product changeover • available at speeds up to 300 packs/min, producing pharmaceutical wallet cards or assembly and folding of heat-sealed cards with field- or...

HCPC announces Packages of the Year

Four packages earn honors at the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s 18th Annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance....

Healthcare reform could boost use of compliance-prompting packaging

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s Symposium honors Pfizer, Anderson Packaging with its 2009 Package of the Year Award....

Keeping an eye on OTC switch developments

Switches from Rx to OTC flourish despite global recession. Companies are setting up OTC divisions, as non-medical products, regulatory changes benefit OTC sales....

HCPC revamps Web site, logo; symposium set for May 5

Adopting compliance-prompting packaging to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs is job one for the council....

Will you still need me when I’m 64?

My hat’s off to HealthPack 2010 for again including the input of nurses in evaluating medical device packages in a session called “The Voice of the Customer.”...

Expanded oral dispenser print option

• provides finer graduations on oral dispensers for more precise liquid dispensing or dosing applications • complements current print options typically used in measuring OTC medications; complies with ISO 7886-1:1993 (E) for delivered volumes • stock fine print calibrations offered...

Video report: Aging population adds to packaging costs, complicates sustainability

Seniors with strength and vision limitations may require larger, more costly packages that use more packaging. Those challenges provide opportunities for the packaging community....

Multidose eyedropper

• Novelia™ multidose, preservative-free eyedropper calibrates droplets to improve patient compliance • is compatible with existing filling lines; handles a wide range of drug viscosities • made of standard eyedropper bottle, with a one-way valve nozzle to prevent contamination in...

Applaud efforts for innovative packaging that benefits patients

To increase patient compliance, there’s a pill vial cap with a timer, a pill bottle that flashes orange and plays a melody, and a pill with a sensor chip that works with a cell phone. All demonstrate that innovation is...

Pediatric packaging design seeks medication compliance for kids

Children can and should be included as a partner in their healthcare, says Jean-Marc Aiache, emeritus professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Clermont-Ferrand, France....

Pharmapack announces 2010 award winners

Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan reports live from Paris, France, where the Pharmapack Awards 2010 were presented today for innovations in safety and compliance, in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and veterinary packaging....

Just a spoonful of medicine? Not so fast…

During the recent holiday season our teenage daughter Cassie was diagnosed with strep throat....

Sneaking a peak into futuristic device developments

If you think 2010 sounds futuristic, wait until you hear about these medical device developments....

Blister-card compliance package

• traditional fold-over, heat-seal Key-Pak® Blister Card is approved to be F=1 child-resistant, and is senior-friendly • push-through pull-tab indicator helps to reduce dosing errors; “zipper” design allows for simple removal of the rear blister-card panel and provide damage-free product...

Crestor closer to expanded use

FDA advisory committee voted 12 to 4 (one abstaining) to broaden use of cholesterol-lowering Crestor to people with normal cholesterol and no history of heart disease....

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