Once youâre eligible for Medicare, youâll have an initial enrollment period to sign up for Medicare. For most people, the initial enrollment period starts 3 months before their 65th birthday and ends 3 months after their 65th birthday.
Excipient. An excipient is generally a pharmacologically inactive substance formulated with the active ingredient of a medication. Excipients are commonly used to bulk up formulations that contain potent active ingredients, to allow convenient and accurate dispensation of a drug substance when producing a dosage form.
Last, but not least, some excipients are used simply to make the product taste and look better. This improves patient compliance, especially in children. Although technically inactive from a therapeutic sense, pharmaceutical excipients are critical and essential components of a modern drug product.