Analytics

At a conference on preserving national security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center last week, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg stressed the importance of medical countermeasures for responding to natural and deliberate threats to public health.

The author presents a method to calculate the relationship between supply air volume flow and airborne particle concentrations.

The unit selected for wet granulation, whether it be a high shear mixer or a fluidised bed, has a marked impact on granule properties.

Pfizer Completes King Acquisition; ViiV Healthcare Names Chairman; and More.

New product reviews from March 2011.

The authors evaluated the manufacturing data of 40-mg tablets of furosemide, a potent diuretic.

A revised book on process analytical technology could be valuable to novices and experts.

The author describes key considerations for drug manufacturers when evaluating packaging partners.

Q&A with Robert Hardy, chief executive of Aesica

INTERPHEX 2011 aims to address the industry's unique characteristics.

Use of in-process particle size analysis has enabled pharmaceutical scientists and process engineers to track the progress of a granulation process and detect its endpoint.

In wet granulation, many companies used to rely on empirical data and quality control, but processes and technologies have improved in a variety of ways in recent years.

Gilead to Acquire Calistoga; Bayer Healthcare Appoints Former Pfizer Exec; and More.

Company and People Notes: sanofi to Acquire Genzyme; Lilly Makes Senior Appointments; and More.

My drug failed a light-obscuration test, but after I filtered the drug for microscopic particle counting, I couldn?t see any significant particulate on the filter. What might have caused the failure, and why is it not visible?

The way in which a suspension nasal spray product interacts with the body depends not only on the droplet size of the delivered droplet, but also on the particle size of the suspended API.

Pfizer Acquires Ferrosan's Consumer Health Business; Patheon Appoints Former Biogen Exec as CEO; and More.

Company and People Notes: Pfizer Completes King Tender Offer; Cook Pharmica Names VP of R&D and CSO; and More

Follow-ons were all the rage at this year's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.

New products in tableting and granulation.

Q&A with Magnetrol International's Dan Klees

Using risk assessment properly can provide industry with a unique tool for quality control.

How to adapt a real time release approach to powder processing during drug-product manufacturing.

A roundtable moderated by Angie Drakulich.

Novartis Acquires Genoptix; Lilly Exec Becomes Savient CEO; and More.

FDA published its long-awaited guidance titled Process Validation: General Principles and Practices this week.

Merck Teams with Parexel; Roche CFO to Retire; and More

A company's contamination-control plan is an important document designed to formalize the rationale, methods, and validation of contamination-control procedures in a manufacturing facility. The author describes the role of bioburden in the contamination-control plan.

Improvements in analytical techniques may call for a re-evaluation of the biopharmaceutical industry saying that "the process is the product."

UHPLC offers increased performance compared with HPLC, including shorter analysis times and increased sensitivity.