Articles in this Issue
As the medical device sector continues to rapidly evolve, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that patients and healthcare professionals have access to up-to-date product and safety information. E-labelling provides a ...
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Oral administration of peptides for systemic delivery offers convenience for patients and promotes better adherence to dosing regimens than injections. While this may seem obvious in principle, the preference of Type II diabetic ...
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Terahertz spectroscopy utilizes a spectral range that is characteristic of low-frequency vibrational modes, molecular rotational modes as well as intermolecular interactions. Hence, it is capable of molecular fingerprinting and a ...
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Going “Green” in today’s business climate where maximizing shareholder equity and conserving capital is a top priority can be difficult, especially if the project increases the overall cost of doing business. Unfortunately, when ...
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Driven by the 3Rs principle to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in the testing of pharmaceuticals, the European Pharmacopoeia Commission (EPC) announced in June 2021 that it would put an end to the rabbit pyrogen test...
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Long acting injectable (LAI) formulations have been the subject of continued interest in the recent past due, in part, to their longer systemic circulation requiring less frequent dosing of drugs. Less frequent administration as ...
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Industry 4.0 technologies and new innovative materials will disrupt the entire manufacturing value chain by enabling digital factories and smart supply chains. The future of drug substances and drug products manufacturing lies ...
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Quality excellence is a key factor in pharmaceutical manufacturing that differentiates the high performers from the less successful companies. Quality Metrics research identified that ‘high performer’ manufacturing plants excel ...
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We live in an age of medical exploration. Each day it seems a new drug, therapy, or clinical trial is underway to combat ailments of diverse complexities. From the latest over-the-counter treatments to advancements in cancer ...
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For decades, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries have waited for days to visually inspect microbiological colonies on agar plates to determine results. These results are not only slow to obtain, but they also leave ...
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The purpose of this column is to highlight and summarize recent key patents in the pharmaceutical arena issued by the US Patent Office in January 2023.
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Companies today face many new challenges following the COVID pandemic. One common challenge is determining whether to allow employees to continue working remotely. Alternatively, an assessment must be made regarding the kind of ...
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The latitude to optimize a manufacturing run in response to in-process test results is often omitted from cell therapy INDs in exchange for speed to clinic. My intent in writing this article is to convey the importance of ...
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