Data and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Fred Jordan, CEO at AlpVision SA, explains how web-based server solutions can aid anticounterfeiting strategies and why such systems are seeing increased uptake.

GE Healthcare, the health business of General Electric, will dedicate $1 billion of its total R&D budget during the next five years to its technologies for manufacturing biopharmaceuticals and for cancer research. Part of the money will go toward expanding the company's cancer-diagnostic and molecular-imaging capabilities, as well.

Glass flaking or delamination can result in a failed quality-assurance test, thus bringing production to a halt and causing substantial revenue loss. If glass delamination remains undiscovered, it can pose a serious contamination risk to the drug product and a potential health risk to the public.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering will soon publish an update for its guide to sterile-product manufacturing facilities. The new publication will replace the original guide and contain practical information about technological advances in sterile manufacturing.

Smartphones could become the product-authentication tool of choice. Contains online bonus material.

Using information technology tools to enhance process understanding helps reduce variability that can affect speed to market.

This study demonstrates the beneficial use of a spatial-filter velocimetry particle-size analyzer during granulation.

Manufacturers are facing ever-increasing competition while end users are expecting better value and efficacy. The authors discuss these challenges and offer practical solutions.

Companies know they need regulatory information management, but they don't always know where to start and how to weave this capability across diverse technology applications.

President Obama unveiled an Advanced Manufacturing Partnership designed to reinvigorate the country's manufacturing sector.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has published a guidance that suggests best practices for managing adverse events and other pharmacovigilance data from the internet and social media tools.

FDA added a searchable database of inspection data to its website. The database lists the names and addresses of facilities that the agency inspected during fiscal years 2009 and 2010.

In January 2011, a new version of Annex 11 was released by the European Commission along with a revision of Chapter 4 of its GMP on documentation to reflect the actualities of electronic record keeping, all of which come into full effect in June 2011.

In January 2011, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced the new revision of EudraLex Volume 4 (GMP) - Annex 11 'Computerised Systems', and the consequential amendment of EudraLex Volume 4 - Chapter 4 ?Documentation?.

Can the semiconductor industry help Big Pharma develop therapies?

The authors developed automated equipment that uses functionally closed disposables to perform cellular and ribonucleic processing.

Axcan acquires Mpex Pharmaceuticals; Bend Research receives patent for improving bioavailability of low-solubility drugs; and More.

Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline are among several pharmaceutical companies using technology transfer as way to improve health outcomes in the developing world.

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

FDA recently sent sanofi-aventis two Warning Letters for its facilities in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Bridgewater, NJ.

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

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.

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

The European Medicines Agency has released a new Annex 11-Computerized Systems to its GMP Guide Chapter 4 on Documentation to account for the increased use of and complexity of computerized systems in the drug-manufacturing community.