Analytics

A history of the selection of the widely used significance level leaves much to be desired.

The authors discuss the statistical tools used in experimental planning and strategy and how to evaluate the resulting design space and its graphical representation.

After a spate of industrial disasters, the public seeks greater oversight of corporations-so does FDA.

Pfizer Suspends Tanezumab Program; Actavis Appoints CEO; And More.

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are complex products that can vary from their legitimate counterparts both chemically and physically.

Company and People Notes: Valeant and Biovail to Merge; GPhA Names Interim Director; And More.

GSK Acquires Laboratorios Phoenix; Catalent Makes Executive Appointments; And More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Fermentas; Pfizer Names Head of R&D; And More.

A timely new book explains techniques for conformational analysis.

Europe moves to place excipient GMP and GDP standards on the same level as active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Too much or too little control can actually lead to the same result.

The authors recommend a strategy for classifying similar nonstainless-steel surfaces into three groups based upon the analytical recovery that was observed in this study.

Bayer to Open San Francisco Innovation Hub; Lonza Bioscience Names COO; And More.

Lonza Acquires MODA; Sigma-Aldrich Exec to Retire; And More.

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) published its "Ten Principles on Counterfeit Medicines" last week to draw public attention to the issue.

Week Of May 10, 2010: Company And People Notes: Ariad and Merck Restructure Collaboration; Genzyme Changes Leadership; and More

FDA Approves AstraZeneca's and Pozen's Vimovo; Merck Announces Management Changes; And More.

A method for determining sample size is finally getting some respect.

FDA wants industry to talk to them about the science underlying process innovations-really.

In this case study of amines, the authors discuss several parameters to be considered in developing a headspace GC method.

The growth of Brazil's generic-drug market is on a fast track, but what are the projections for the sector's future?

A Pharma Business Imperative.

When vessels, seals, and cooling units go haywire, operators must get in the mix.

The author proposes techniques, based on Six Sigma methods, for monitoring such processes to discover their airflow patterns and reduce opportunities for spillage.This article is part of PharmTech's supplement "Solid Dosage and Excipients 2010."

Sample preparation before analysis is just as important as the analytical technique because poor sample preparation alters or skews the analytical result.

The needs of the pharmaceutical industry for powder testing technologies are changing, primarily for two reasons. The first is that global economics, and the economics and competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry itself, are driving manufacturers towards achieving greater efficiency.

Testing the dissolution rates of a pharmaceutical formulation (also known as in vitro availability) aids drug quality control and is a compulsory requirement of the British, European and US pharmacopoeias.

Bioanalysis has migrated from a very general vocation to one that requires more specialisation, particularly in GLP applications.

Why spray drying processes offer a range of particle engineering possibilities.

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a highly sensitive and specific analytical chemistry technique that is very commonly used in pharmacokinetic studies of new chemical entities.