Dosage Forms

GSK's investigational Ebola vaccine is in Phase I safety trials.

Johnson& Johnson is collaborating with WHO and others on clinical testing, development, production, and distribution of an Ebola vaccine.

Contract Packaging Resources issued a voluntary recall of naproxen sodium tablets because some cartons contain bottles of ibuprofen.

The agency recommends that companies developing drugs to treat Ebola apply for orphan drug designation.

PharmaSpray delivers a consistent, validatable amount of dry lubricant.

Manufacturers using highly potent APIs must examine cross-contamination routes and determine acceptable limits.

IDT Biologika completes large-scale biologics finishing facility in Dessau, Germany.

The total market for biopharmaceuticals in 2013 was $36.8 billion according to Kalorama Information. Meanwhile, Frost & Sullivan estimates that the biosimilars market, which it pegged at just $1.2 billion in 2013, will grow to $23 billion in 2019, or more than 20-fold increase.

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe spoke with Piero Iamartino, R&D director at Micro-Macinazione, about the role of micronization in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The last 12 months have seen a number of major acquisitions in the contract manufacturing space.

LABOCHIM SpA completes construction on multipurpose high-potent API plant in Milan.

Demand for new therapies and vaccines spotlights production challenges.

Romaco Kilian's KTP 420X tablet press compresses up to 360,000 tablets an hour.

Fette Compacting America FE75 Tablet Press is designed to produce up to 1.6 million tablets per hour.

Weighing the pros and cons of hot-melt extrusion and spray drying.

Regulatory agencies in Europe are working to harmonize the marketing approval pathway of generic medicines.

Advances in solid and liquid formulation techniques are providing more options.

NIH seeks new therapeutic products to bolster the protective properties of vaccines.

Partnership is awarded for licensing of low-cost vaccine for the treatment of bacterial meningitis.

USP expresses its support for a consensus-based global approach to the naming of biologics.

I Holland, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and experts from the Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, United Kingdom, recently completed a two-year tableting science anti-stick research (TSAR) project, which sought to understand why certain formulations stick to tablet tooling.

Leading global tablet tooling manufacturer, I Holland has a range of multiple tip punches and dies optimised to meet the requirements of modern tablet production.

CALIXAR and VirPath use new manufacturing techniques to create a vaccine for the pandemic flu, influenza A (H1N1), available in 2015.

Texas A&M dedicates national pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing facility.

Micronization and other processes are used to obtain optimal particle characteristics for pulmonary and oral solid-dosage delivery.

A GPhA report says generic drugs saved the US health system $239 billion in 2013.

Molecular Profiles has expanded its capsule filling capability following significant investment into new equipment at its clinical manufacturing site in the United Kingdom.

FDA approved XTANDI for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

PDA will publish a technical report on quality risk management aspects of drug shortages in early 2015.

PDA surveys are designed to evaluate quality metrics practices at member organizations.