Ingredients

During the 20 months before the crisis of contaminated heparin in early 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration did not inspect any Chinese heparin firms, according to a US Government Accountability Office, (GAO) report.

Roche Details Restructuring Plan; Sigma-Aldrich Names Successors after CEO's Death; and More.

Eli Lilly Acquires Avid Radiopharmaceuticals; EMA Recruiting New Director; and More

sanofi acquires BMP Sunstone; DCAT Names President; and More.

Abuse-deterrent combination drugs represent a niche area in formulation development.

USP is working to ensure quality standards and to increase public information.

IP rights and levels of innovation have opened a bit of controversy regarding decisions being made by Indian courts and legislators.

Industrial and academic partnerships forge new territory in solid-state chemistry.

As technology advances, industry's needs are growing.

The authors demonstrated that ODTs can be obtained by direct compression of a mixture of starch, fructose, and SMCC.

Post recession and beyond, which contract service providers will still be standing?

The authors present an update to the Wyeth/BASF experience with the IPEC Novel Excipient Safety Evaluation Procedure.

Stuart Needleman, president of active-ingredient development and manufacturing at Aptuit, discusses industry trends and challenges.

PPD and Bend Research Form Collaboration; Ricerca Makes Senior Appointment; And More.

Pfizer Forms Pact with Biocon; Baxter Makes Appointments; And More.

sanofi to Cut 25% of US Workforce; AMRI Names VP of Chemical Development; And More.

Company and People Notes: Novartis Settles with US Attorney's Office; Hospira Names VP, And More.

The reopened debate over embryonic-stem-cell research could stifle many other scientific pursuits.

A recently released industry guide outlines a science- and risk-based approach to control the risk of cross-contamination.

Public-private R&D partnerships are on the rise across Europe, but national goals and academia-industry competition could prevent their success at the European level.

The author describes the development of small-angle X-ray scattering and analyzes its advantages in the characterization of drug-delivery systems and large molecules. This article is part of a special Analytical Technology issue.

Using new co-processing technologies, the authors show that it is possible to formulate an 'all-round' excipient.

The European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration announced their individual regulatory decisions and resulting actions regarding the marketing of GlaxoSmithKline's (London) Avandia (rosiglitazone), a thiazolidinedione used to treat Type 2 diabetes.

Novartis Sells US Enablex Rights; Ricerca Names Chemistry Director; And More.

DSM and PolyTherics in Development Deal; Kite Pharma Appoints President and CEO, And More.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J, New Brunswick, NJ) announced last week that it was in "advanced negotiations" for a potential public offer for the Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell (Leiden, The Netherlands).

Genzyme Sells Genetics Business; Bausch and Lomb Names Vice-President; and More.

Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York) has agreed to acquire the biopharmaceutical company ZymoGenetics (Seattle) for an aggregate purchase price of $885 million or $735 million net of cash.

The generic-drug company Actavis (Hafnarfjordur, Iceland) is considering acquiring a 51% stake in the biopharmaceutical company BioPartners Holdings (Barr, Switzerland) from Bioton, a Polish biotechnology company.

Pfizer to Acquire FoldRx; Protalix Appoints COO; And More.