Pharmaceutical Technology-12-02-2010

Riding the Employment Roller Coaster

As we get ready to begin the New Year, let's hope some quality resolutions are made.

2010 came with pay raises for those still employed and anxiety for all. This article contains bonus online material.

Republican gains in Congress create uncertainty for healthcare reform, drug regulation, and biomedical research.

Global pharmaceutical companies have much to gain in Asia, and the good news is that it's a two-way street. Firms based in Asia are also expected to grow at the global level.

A new book aims to inspire pharmaceutical chemists.

Larry Kranking, president and CEO of Coldstream Laboratories, discusses industry trends and challenges.

Editors' picks of pharmaceutical science and technology innovations.

Supportive public policy is needed in order for innovation to flourish.

Outsourcing packaging functions can save time and money.

Tiered pricing is used throughout industry to help increase affordability and access to drugs in the developing world.

World AIDS Day 2010 reminds us that prevention and hope can help fight the disease.

Approaches in cyclization, palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, fluorination, and natural product synthesis help to optimize routes for select drugs.

Sometimes doing what you think is right ends up being completely and utterly wrong.

Covance's deal with sanofi-aventis demonstrates the power of scale and scope.

The author explains the idea of equivalence and describes how it can facilitate equipment validation.

IPEC extends its reach to Brazil and Argentina in an effort to harmonize excipient best practices.

The authors evaluated the effect of alcoholic beverages on the release profiles of sustained-release dosage forms containing metformin and diclofenac.