Posted on 08/03/2015 4:32:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has, for the first time, approved a drug that uses 3D printing technology, paving the way for potential customization of drugs to suit patients' needs.
The drug, made by privately held Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Co, was approved for oral use as a prescription adjunctive therapy in the treatment of epilepsy, the company said on Monday.
Spritam uses Aprecia's "ZipDose" technology, a delivery system that creates premeasured doses which disintegrate in the mouth with a sip of liquid.
3D printing could help companies make products "to the specifications of an individual patient rather than (take a) one-size-fits-all kind of approach," Wedbush Securities analyst Tao Levy said.
3D printers help make products by layering material until a three-dimensional object is created....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Change is good.
Pocketsful is better.
Can’t wait til they 3D print intelligence enhancing drugs.
They’re already working on functioning organs from your own cell so that there will be no rejection.
I had a printer on drugs before. It would go haywire and just keep printing page after page of gibberish. I unplugged it, brought it out back, and put it down with some buckshot out of a twelve gauge. There was ink everywhere I tell ya.
I’d prefer that over a pig liver..
INteresting Times INDEED..
LOL!
And since it’s experimental those of us on Medicare and Tricare Life will be LEFT HIGH AND DRY OUT OF THE PICTURE.
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