Manufacturing

To expand coverage amidst the economic crisis, Obama will look for ways to cut healthcare costs.

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China's quality approach to domestic versus exported products seems to be a lose-lose situation.

A recent Pharmaceutical Technology survey examined the level, sources, and reasons behind innovation in drug development and manufacturing. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

A book about pharmaceutical analysis engages the reader with history and unexpected asides.

The authors review the current regulatory framework for the selection of drug substance starting materials.

The next president and the 111th Congress might change the extent of FDA's authority.

Results from Pharmaceutical Technology's Annual Employment Survey.

Pharmaceutical Technology is pleased to recognize the winners of its Innovations in Pharma Science Awards.

New research suggests calcium carbonate tablets are stronger and less porous when manufactured using a wet, rather than a dry, granulation process.

Hundreds of pharma–biotech deals have been announced during 2008 and many of these probably began at biopartnering conferences. Susan Aldridge examines some of this year's big buyouts and mergers.

It is a universally acknowledged truth that a biotech start-up in possession of little fortune must be in want of venture capital (VC). Perhaps less well acknowledged, however, is that VC investors operate in a way consistent with being rational economic entities...

Although realized in 1983, ASTM's standrad test method for determining bacterial retention of membrane filters used for liquid filtration is still hugely beneficial to today's pharmaceutical industry.

TranScrip Partners' Flic Gabbay explains why an approach that provides expertise on an 'as needed basis' is flourishing.

You don't have to spend any time in the company of its chairman to see that there is no other Big Pharma company like Servier.

Also, Johnson & Johnson will acquire Omrix Biopharmaceuticals for $438 million; Charles River Laboratories promoted Foster Jordan to corporate senior VP of endotoxin and microbial detection products; more...

Companies at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scieintists (AAPS) unveiled technologies, expansion plans, and services for formulation development, manufacturing, and drug delivery at the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Atlanta last week.

During its roundtable discussion titled "Follow-On Biologic (FOB) Drugs: Framework for Competition and Continued Innovation," The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) discussed likely effects, patent issues, and regulatory exclusivity periods concerning FOBs.

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance, Contents of a Complete Submission for the Evaluation of Proprietary Names, on Nov. 24, 2008.

Ranbaxy Laboratories (Gurgaon, Haryana, India) responded to an investigation of violations at two of its manufacturing plants, according to a Reuters Health report.

Although the number of annual new-drug approvals in the United States has steadily declined during the past ten years, pharmaceutical companies still prefer to introduce new products in the US first, according to a report published by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

The US Food and Drug issued a draft guidance on Tuesday, Nov. 18, titled Process Validation: General Principles and Practices for comment. The guidance is meant to serve as a revision to the 1987 Guideline on General Principles of Process Validation.

Also, BASi opens European office in Warwickshire, UK; Acusphere's Howard Bernstein Resigns; More...

US marshals seized 11 lots of heparin from Celsus Laboratories (Cincinnati, OH) at the request of the US Food and Drug Administration.

Novo Nordisk will invest nearly $400 million to build a new insulin plant in Tianjin, China.