Pharmaceutical dosage forms contain both pharmacologically active compounds and excipients added to aid the formulation and manufacture of the subsequent dosage form for administration to patients. Indeed, the properties of the final dosage form (i.e. its bioavailability and stability) are, for the most part, highly dependent on the...

Pharmacists or their pharmaceutical equivalents have been responsible for compounding medicines for cen turies. Recently this role has been challenged in the pharmaceutical literature with suggestions and recom mendations that it is inappropriate for the pharmaceu tical practitioner to compound medicines in a local pharmacy...