Outsourcing

Cephalon Buys Mepha; BASi's CEO Retires; and More.

Strategic rather than tactical considerations are driving biopharmaceutical outsourcing.

Sharing too much-or too little-information can have disastrous onsequences.

FDA impersonators and counterfeit drugs threaten the public's trust in online pharmacies.

Regulators and industry move to require inspections of API manufacturing facilities.

When it comes to healthcare rform, we must not overlook investment in innovative technologies.

Leading experts share insight on the current and future direction of process analytical technology. This article contains bonus online material.

We never thought implementing complex changes could become more cumbersome.

Novartis CEO To Step Down; DSM To Close Netherlands Facility; And More.

Lonza Group (Basel) plans to reinforce its presence in Asia, including its platform in Nansha, China, and to close its Conshohocken (Riverside), Pennsylvania; Shawinigan, Canada; and Wokingham, United Kingdom, sites in 2010.

FDA Issues Warning Letter To McNeil Healthcare; Charles River Laboratories Will Suspend Operations At Massachusetts Facility.

Bioject Medical Technologies establishes alliance with MPI Research; Biogen Idec CEO to retire; And More.

Grace McNally, in the Office of Compliance at FDA's CDER, discusses the role of QbD and pharmaceutical quality systems as it relates to contract manufacturing.

Team leaders in FDA's Office of Generic Drugs provide an overview.

Plus, novel dosage forms and emerging trends.

From healthcare to corruption to life expectancy, here's what we can learn from the past decade.

Directors and staff miss the mark when it comes to following procedures.

It's customary among columnists to begin a new year with some predictions about what's to come. We don't honour that custom every year, but with what the contract services industry went through in 2009, it seemed appropriate to share thoughts on what we expect for 2010.

BioNanomatrix (Philadelphia) names Edward Erickson president and CEO; and More.

Merck & Co. Acquires Avecia Biologics; Ambrilia Biopharma Closes Manufacturing Facility; And More.

Also, Abbott to acquire Starlims Technologies; GSK Biologicals to form alliance with Intercell.

Company and People Notes: Also, Pfizer and Protalix enter agreement; Watson acquires Arrow Group; and more.

Also, Merck & Co. extends collaboration with Idera Pharmaceuticals; Pfizer establishes R&D center in China; more...

Particularly in a more connected world, individual contributions can make a difference.

Dumbed-down presentations and poor speaker selections are destroying a valuable industry tool.