After a much longer delay that I expected, I am back to blogging on a regular basis. Today I want to discuss a common topic among clinical pharmacologists. How do you properly design a drug-drug interaction study? Defining drug-drug interactions While these studies may appear complicated, they can be simplified very quickly to make the … Continued
Pregnant women are usually not part of the traditional drug development program. Pregnancy is associated with major biological and physiological changes that alter the pharmacokinetics (PK) of drugs. Prediction of the changes to drug exposure in this group of patients may help to prevent under- or overtreatment. We have used a pregnancy physiologically based pharmacokinetic … Continued
A large proportion of prescribed drugs to children are administered orally. Age-related change in factors affecting oral absorption can have consequences for drug dosing. For each process affecting oral drug absorption, a systematic search has been performed using Medline to identify relevant articles (from inception till February 2012) in humans. This review presents the findings … Continued
