Manufacture of oral medicines by ... 3D printers

Aprecia Pharamceuticals has just released the US anti-epileptic drug produced entirely by 3D printers. The drug has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Anti-epileptic drugs are produced entirely by 3D printers.

And so, Aprecia became the first pharmaceutical company in the world to apply the drug production process with this unique technology. In addition to Aprecia, many other pharmaceutical companies have similar approaches but much research and production remains in the lab.

Aprecia used a 3D process called powder pouring to make pills in the mouth . With the fact that patients with epilepsy can hardly take medicine, especially at the time of the attack, the solubility in the mouth of Spritam is very necessary and effective.

The pharmaceutical company has received $ 35 million in capital to develop alternative medicine for patients with epilepsy. " Spritam is a key solution to change the way epilepsy is treated today ," said Don Wetherhold, Apercia's chief operating officer.

Drugs produced by 3D technology has been receiving a lot of interest of the professionals. At the present time, much of the process is focused solely on hardware, ie technology to produce drugs. So, the appearance of Spritam is a good news for professionals and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the development and improvement of this technology.