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Traditional pills are made from powdered medicines, smashed together under high pressure to stabilize into a pill. But 3D printing could stack up medicines layer by layer, specially shaping and ...

The 3-D printing process creates a pill that has "a porous formulation that rapidly disintegrates with a sip of liquid," the company says. Aprecia says it based its printing platform on technology ...

For the first time ever, the FDA has approved a 3D-printed prescription pill for consumer use. This 3D-printed pill, which will sold by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals under the name Spritam, could be ...

the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced. The FDA has previously approved medical devices - including prosthetics - that have been 3D printed.

This, alongside a tablet’s interior structure and shape, successfully controlled a given printed pill’s release rate and dosage amount. They then 3D printed 55 additional individualized pills ...

A new technique for 3D printing medication has enabled the printing ... not being controlled or properly treated. A single pill approach would simplify taking multiple medications at different ...

He now believes it is possible, and that the answer could lie in 3D printing ... and cocaine into pill form. It’s been suggested that users could eventually print their own drugs, and experiment ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August gave the go-ahead for a 3D printed pill. The drug, Spritam (levetiracetam), a version of a widely used drug for controlling seizures ...

In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced. The FDA has previously approved medical devices - including prosthetics - that ...

A new technique for 3D printing medication has enabled the printing ... not being controlled or properly treated. A single pill approach would simplify taking multiple medications at different ...