PTSM: Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management-09-05-2012

A look at PharmaCheck, a field-based tool in development that uses microfluidic chip technology for assessing the quality of medicine in the developing world.

Although serving niche areas, orphan drugs offer good market opportunities for pharmaceutical companies and their suppliers.

Budgets for biopharmaceutical activities are gaining in select functional areas except outsourcing.

The Generic Drug User Fee Act seeks to improve and enhance regulatory activities, including achieving parity of inspections between foreign and domestic drug-manufacturing sites for both finished dosage forms and APIs of generic drugs.

A roundup of the latest developments for drug delivery of parenteral drugs.

A roundup of developments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability from the bio/pharmaceutical industry, its suppliers, and other public and private organizations.