This Month’s Focus: Particle Characterization
Progress in particle engineering science: Towards advanced dry powder inhalation systems
Insight into characteristics of HPMC capsules and development of engineered particles to achieve targeted product characteristics and performance criteria.
Combined impactor and x-ray diffraction (XRPD) methodology for characterizing polymorph impurities in inhalation powders
Applied to typical DPI formulations, the methodology enables detection of polymorph impurities at levels comparable to, or better than, corresponding determinations using conventional synchrotron radiation.
General Features
Back Page: School-based telemedicine combined with in-school care helped children manage asthma
Children had more symptom-free days, fewer days with activity limitation, reduced airway inflammation, and fewer emergency department visits or hospitalizations for their asthma.
Cross-Industry Organizations: The Aerosol Society: DDL2018, student support and educational events
A first look at DDL2018 plus an overview of the society’s educational activities and student support.
A preview of the 7th Medicon Valley Inhalation Symposium and Workshop
The 7th Medicon Valley Inhalation Symposium and Workshop will take place October 1-4, 2018 in Lund, Sweden.
Previewing the Association of Inhalation Toxicologists 2018 Annual Meeting
The Association of Inhalation Toxicologists will hold its annual meeting October 16-18, 2018 at the Hilton Durham near Duke University in North Carolina, US.
October Content
Connected inhalers: Stakeholders’ potential benefits and possible concerns
Mannitol as a viable alternative for lactose in DPI formulations
Back Page: The Teal Pumpkin Project
Cross-industry organizations: RDD
Previewing PharmSci360
A preview of DDL2018
Issue Focus: Devices
Special Section: Outsourcing services
Issue Focuses
January: Reference and Buyer’s Resource
February: Product Development/ Contract Testing
April: Instruments
June: Nasal Delivery/Nebulizers
August: Particle Characterization
October: Devices
December: Quality/Compliance
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Inhalation Article Guidelines
Technical article requirements
The article should be technical and educational, but not promotional. It must be new, not previously published and must be at least 50% different from your previous articles or other articles you are simultaneously developing on the same subject.
All discussions of products or technologies must be in an unbiased, non-promotional, educational manner. If your article discusses products that have been commercialized or are in development, please be aware of the following: Inhalation takes a very limited approach in discussing products, usually listing only product name, delivered drug name and company name, unless a description is provided by the particular company that owns a product, such as in a case study article or product news release. In that way, each company can choose the information it wishes to discuss or disclose about its own products, rather than being discussed by an outside party with no ability to comment prior to publication. However, if an article is a case study, presentation of a novel technology or news article written by the owner company or its representative such as a scientist or consultant, we are happy to consider all information or data they wish to disclose, provided it is presented in a fair-balanced manner.
The article should be 2,500-3,500 words and must include at least five references or items for recommended reading.
We encourage images and/or data tables and have space for three or four of them. We’re flexible about that number so let us know if you need more image space. We also like to publish an additional photo or illustration at the beginning of the article. Images should be sent as separate files that meet the following specifications: high resolution, 300 dpi at a size of 7 x 7 inches and in only JPG, TIF or EPS formats.
Please be aware, due to copyrights, if you use figures or tables from articles that have been previously published in other journals, you must obtain permission from those journals in order to use the images. If you are an author on the published article in question, you may still need permission but there should be no fees from the other journal. If you are not an author and the other journal wants to charge you fees for usage, please contact us before proceeding. We do not want authors incurring costs in order to publish in Inhalation and there may be alternate approaches to citing information that could be used. Also, “open journals” do not charge for image use. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
Editorial board review and production
All of our articles are peer-reviewed and must be accepted by our editorial board or a designated reviewer in order to be published. When you send us the article, it will go to a member of the board and we will coordinate communication between you. Once an article is accepted, we handle production and you will see the final article in layout before it goes to print or is published in the digital edition.
Contract Testing
Excipients
