Quality Systems

Indirect data suggest oral semaglutide outperforms orforglipron on weight loss and tolerability, with patients also favoring its treatment profile.

The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion on a new preclinical research methodology.

Contract development and manufacturing organizations can assist the sponsor company in ensuring sterility assurance in alignment with the EU’s Annex 1 guidelines.

The FDA approved a high-dose nusinersen regimen for spinal muscular atrophy, offering pharma teams key insights into dose optimization and lifecycle management.

During its March 2026 meeting, the agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use approved treatments for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, relapsed extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta syndrome, and oedema of cardiac, renal, hepatic origin, and hypertension in children.

Excipients contribute to more sustainable practices throughout the life cycle of a drug.

This article explores key engineering strategies that support this transformation, including hybrid reactor design, clean-in-place optimization, automation architecture, and modular scalability.

This week, three core themes have emerged: the digital transformation of quality systems through AI and hybrid cloud architectures; the pursuit of supply chain resilience via onshoring and advanced mapping; and a regulatory push toward real-time data and flexible approval pathways.

FDA approves first therapy for Hunter syndrome's neurologic symptoms via surrogate endpoint, signaling evolving rare disease development standards.

New legislation will improve patient access to innovative medicines in Europe and the United Kingdom.

In this episode of Ask the Expert, Susan J. Schniepp and Siegfried Schmitt discuss how companies should approach preventing product recalls.

Malav Parikh, director, Quality Risk Management, Global Quality Compliance and Systems, Takeda, spoke with PharmTech about the technologies being used to fight counterfeiting and how predictive modeling can be used to validate transport conditions.

Quality control for pharmaceuticals is evolving with the assistance of digital tools, sustainability practices, and a push to move manufacturing onshore.

The FDA approved higher-dose semaglutide (7.2 mg) in 54 days under its new priority voucher program, signaling faster reviews for drug developers.

FDA's March 2026 draft guidance outlines a validation framework for non-animal drug testing methods, signaling a shift in nonclinical submission expectations.

Industry experts explain how incorporating sustainability into the early development phase creates greener pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The FDA will evaluate tildrakizumab-asmn for psoriatic arthritis. A 2026 decision is expected based on Phase III clinical trial data.

This week, the industry experienced accelerated digital transformation, regulatory evolution, and a strategic shift toward complex, patient-centric modalities.

This article reviews the use of Raman spectroscopy in a series of case studies to quickly identify the iron oxide compound(s), including magnetite and hematite, on the surface of representative endcaps or piping spool pieces. The article also provides a strategy using a detergent additive to remove magnetite without performing costly electro- or mechanical polishing.

The 2mg/kg every-4-weeks dosing regimen for pegunigalsidase alfa in adults with Fabry disease who are stable with an enzyme replacement therapy has been approved in Europe.

Developments across the sector highlight a period of rapid acceleration and structural modernization.

The author discusses analytical techniques for cleaning and disinfection, clean room operation, packaging component preparation, water-for-injection production, sterile product preparation, and aseptic filling, stoppering, and sealing.

The companies have extended a commercial supply partnership for the manufacture of Sohonos (palovarotene), which is a treatment for the ultra-rare disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

It is necessary to search beyond the term “data integrity” to stay abreast of developments in this field, says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice president, Technical at Parexel.

In this episode of Ask the Expert, Susan J. Schniepp, Nelson Labs, and Siegfried Schmitt, Parexel, discuss the benefits of orphan drug development and how a mid-sized company can work with regulators through the pathway to approval.