Bayer received conditional approval from the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice to acquire Monsanto in a deal worth $66 billion.

The new draft guidance addresses the premarketing assessment of a drug’s effect on blood pressure.

FDA sent a warning letter to Jilin Shulan Synthetic Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. after an inspection found CGMP violations including a lack of data integrity.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s capsule filling machine for small batches of hard capsules uses a fully automated, washable containment process.

The updated version of Schubert-Pharma’s Flowmodul unit for packing units into flowpacks features cleanability.

Bosch Packaging Technology will present its new modular freeze dryer at Achema 2018.

GE Healthcare and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) will support scale-up efforts by DiscGenics for a new cell therapy intended to treat back pain.

World Health Organization’s Ebola ring vaccination uses Merck & Co.’s investigational rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine to protect high-risk communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Ebola.

This marks the third FDA approval for the company’s second biomanufacturing plant in Incheon, Korea.

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik has added compact continuous agglomeration equipment and new control systems to its "modular plant engineering" portfolio.

Optima will also display the freeze dryer CS and the sterility test isolator STISO at the show.

The gene therapy company is expected to invest $55 million in a new manufacturing facility that will produce therapies for rare neurological genetic diseases.

GEA and Perceptive Engineering will collaborate to promote and deploy multivariate monitoring and advanced process control (APC) solutions for batch and continuous pharmaceutical process units.

Spectrum Pharmacy Products celebrated the one-year anniversary of its compounding education center, Spectrum Pharmacy Institute, which offers compounding training for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

In adding a Vanrx Pharmasystems aseptic filling isolator, FUJIFILM adds fill/finish for gene therapies and viral vaccines.

Right-to-Try bill sent to White House for President’s signature after passage by Congress.

WuXi Biologics will build a biologics manufacturing facility in Singapore that will use both fed-batch and continuous perfusion-based single-use bioreactors.

The agency issued guidance on over-the-counter topical drug products that address maximal usage trials.

The new drug offers rapid and sustained control of patients’ potassium levels.

Allergan will buy a potential depression treatment from Aptinyx.

The new company will develop proprietary RNA-based therapeutics and will provide broad lentiviral development and manufacturing expertise and support.

The company has leased and purchased facilities in the United States and Europe to expand its cell therapy pipeline.

Hapa addresses the topics of four-color printing on blister packages, serialization, and digitalization at Achema 2018.

The agency approved Amgen and Novartis’ Aimovig (erenumab-aooe), the first FDA-approved preventive treatment for migraine in adults.

The acquisition of AurKa Pharma will help strength Eli Lilly’s oncology pipeline.

Pharmaceutical machine concepts for large and small factories of the future need to be readily available, flexible when it comes to processing variation, and modular in design.

Netzsch will present a new compact grinding/separating system, LabCompactPlus, for chemical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic laboratories at Achema 2018.

CoorsTek will highlight two new ceramic membrane filter technologies at the show-the multi-tube system, which consists of four single ceramic tubes connected together into a single ceramic part, and the hollow fiber system, which consists of ceramic tubes assembled into a high-density module.