Company Makes Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meds

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Company Makes Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meds
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PHARMACY ENTREPRENEUR MEDICINE FORMULA TECHNOLOGY STARTUP FAST-DISSOLVING DRUG-DELIVERY
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A startup company is ready to market a new drug-delivery technology that will make it easier for people to take medicines in pill form. Researchers are developing technologies that improve the ways in which prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines and even vitamins are administered orally.



STORY AND PHOTO CAN BE FOUND AT:
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever...ark.Akina.html


NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: A publication-quality photograph of the Frosta tablets is available at http://ftp.purdue.edu/pub/uns/park.pills.jpeg.



Related Web sites:

Akina Inc.: http://www.akinainc.com

Purdue Research Park: http://www.purdueresearchpark.com

PHOTO CAPTION:

Purdue Research Park company Akina Inc. is developing Frosta(tm), a

Purdue-licensed technology that allows pills to melt in a patient's mouth in

as quickly as 10 seconds. This series of photographs shows a white Frosta(tm)

formulated tablet being dissolved in a drop of water containing red dye for

easy visualization..

A publication-quality photograph is available at http://ftp.purdue.edu/pub/uns/park.pills.jpeg.



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