Download or read book Fine Particles in Medicine and Pharmacy written by Egon Matijević and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmaceutical manufacture is very exacting – for example, drugs must be uniform in size, shape, efficacy, bioavailability, and safety. The presence of different polymorphs in drug production is a serious problem, since different polymorphs differ in bioavailability, solubility, dissolution rate, chemical and physical stability, melting point, color, filterability, density, and flow properties. Fine Particles in Medicine and Pharmacy discusses particle size, shape, and composition and how they determine the choice of polymorph of a drug.