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Medical marketing has ‘skyrocketed’ in the past two decades
Medical marketing increased substantially from 1997 through 2016, especially direct-to-consumer advertising for drugs and health services…
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Clinically relevant dissolution specifications: selection and assessment
Setting specifications for new oral products can be challenging. Too lenient, and there is a risk of passing batches of inadequate quality; too stringent, and there is a risk of rejecting acceptable batches.
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Pharmaceutical corridor between Hong Kong and Brussels opens
The pharma corridor between Hong Kong and Brussels Airport assures handling quality for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals.
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Ustekinumab could be approved to treat ulcerative colitis
Ustekinumab has been submitted to be the first interleukin (IL)-12/23 inhibitor licensed for the treatment of ulcerative colitis...
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Real-time PCR detection of S. aureus in pharmaceutical products
The contamination of pharmaceuticals by microorganisms represents a major threat to public health, not just in the USA and Europe, but all around the world. Pathogenic microorganisms cause morbidity and in some cases mortality when present in products.1,2 Spoilage due to microbial breakdown of formulations can affect potency and shelf…
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Navigating roadblocks to clinical success: from molecule to clinic
For emerging biotech and small companies in early-stage clinical development, accessing the market as quickly as possible is of paramount importance. Biopharma executives must make important decisions at this stage that will impact the success of their commercial strategy. The key to success is making the right decisions at the…
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CPC – Ideal for your natural product purification
Centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) is a silica-free method, using two immiscible liquids as stationary and mobile phases...
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Data integrity and compliance with drug current good manufacturing practices
The FDA has provided guidance on data integrity and compliance; two areas extremely important for pharmaceutical businesses and manufacturers to adhere to...
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Nanoscale blood test could discover more from cancer patients’ blood
A nanoscale blood test could be used to gain more information from the blood of patients in order to help the identification of cancer in its early stages...
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Whitepaper: ABCs of reference standard management
Reference standards play a critical role in pharmaceutical drug development from preclinical to commercial analytical support.
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Recent BPT acquisitions
Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing expands its footprint of GMP testing laboratories with recent acquisitions, including Astellas Analytical Science Laboratories, Inc. (ASL) in Japan, PHAST Gesellschaft für Pharmazeutische Qualitätsstandards mbH (PHAST) in Germany, and Bactup in France...
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Whitepaper: The impacts of Brexit on the bio/pharmaceutical industry
On 23 June 2016, the decision was made on the European Union referendum for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.
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Aspirin enteric-coated tablets market report 2018-2023
A market report on the aspirin enteric-coated pharmaceutical industry outlines current trends and opportunities for growth from 2018 until 2023...
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Most FDA required post-marketing drug studies are missing
The FDA requires drugs to be tested on children after they have been approved for adults, however two thirds of these are not happening...
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Shedding light on norovirus outbreaks
By investigating norovirus outbreaks, US researchers at the University of Rochester in New York hope that the development of a norovirus vaccine will occur...
