Pharmacy compounding, local medicine production, close to the patient and adapted to individual needs, has been around for many decades but the techniques used have not changed much over the years. A more innovative option is the production of 3D printed tablets, and benchtop FDM printers would fit in any community or hospital pharmacy.
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Interview with Beatriz Pereira, University of Central Lancashire, for JakajimaTV hosted by Pieter Hermans. Current healthcare follows an ‘one size fits all’ approach, and it is associated with high variations in treatment outcomes, due to the high interindividual variability.
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