Ingredients

Analysis of crospovidone as a superdistingrant.

The main drivers for innovation in film coatings in the last 5 years mainly relate to optimising the film coating process itself, as well as to the need for film coating materials with enhanced functionality.

Excipient purity is critical in all applications of drug formulation. Typically, the more sensitive or reactive an API, the more critical excipient purity becomes.

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.

Company and People Notes: GlaxoSmithKline acquires Nanjing MeiRui Pharma; Cephalon's CEO to remain on medical leave; and more.

Approaches in cyclization, palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, fluorination, and natural product synthesis help to optimize routes for select drugs.

IPEC extends its reach to Brazil and Argentina in an effort to harmonize excipient best practices.

The authors evaluated the effect of alcoholic beverages on the release profiles of sustained-release dosage forms containing metformin and diclofenac.

Developing and implementing true collaboration in customer/supplier relationships. This article is part of a special section on sourcing and corporate social responsibility.

Genzyme Sells Business Unit to Sekisui Chemical; Ablexis Names VP of Research; and More.

During the 20 months before the crisis of contaminated heparin in early 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration did not inspect any Chinese heparin firms, according to a US Government Accountability Office, (GAO) report.

Roche Details Restructuring Plan; Sigma-Aldrich Names Successors after CEO's Death; and More.

Eli Lilly Acquires Avid Radiopharmaceuticals; EMA Recruiting New Director; and More

sanofi acquires BMP Sunstone; DCAT Names President; and More.

Abuse-deterrent combination drugs represent a niche area in formulation development.

USP is working to ensure quality standards and to increase public information.

IP rights and levels of innovation have opened a bit of controversy regarding decisions being made by Indian courts and legislators.

Industrial and academic partnerships forge new territory in solid-state chemistry.

As technology advances, industry's needs are growing.

The authors demonstrated that ODTs can be obtained by direct compression of a mixture of starch, fructose, and SMCC.

Post recession and beyond, which contract service providers will still be standing?

The authors present an update to the Wyeth/BASF experience with the IPEC Novel Excipient Safety Evaluation Procedure.

Stuart Needleman, president of active-ingredient development and manufacturing at Aptuit, discusses industry trends and challenges.