Analytics

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.

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Arresto Biosciences; Sartorius Appoints Head of Lab Business; and More.

Expert and implementation working groups harmonize more guidelines and move Q11 forward.

Capable of great works, pharma as a whole still yields to the lesser angels of its nature.

A Q&A with Spectrum Laboratories President Tony MacDonald.

AstraZeneca and Abbott End Program; PhRMA Elects New Members; and More.

Pfizer Recalls One Lipitor Lot; Sanofi Aventis Names Head of R&D; and More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Dionex; Former SOCMA CEO Joe Acker Dies; and More.