Articles on key issues related to the pharma industry from the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies and pharma industry experts across the globe. The pharma industry articles' section focuses on current and emerging issues in areas such as Strategic developments in the pharma industry, pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
A working model for collaborative public-private drug discovery
In drug discovery the search for new chemical equity to be developed into valuable preclinical and clinical candidates is very time and costintensive This is a particular difficulty for academics or small and medium enterprises SMEs who are likely to have limited resources Additionally small compani...
The higher activity and potency of new Pharmaceutical APIs HAPI s and Sterile products brings the request for tailor made containment solutions to priority level This is required to continuously meet the safety standard and to assure the requested level of advanced technology supporting research act...
The lungs are the primary organ of the respiratory system The respiratory system works with the circulatory system to deliver oxygen from the lungs to the cells and remove carbon dioxide and return it to the lungs to be exhaled Respiration means exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air...
Generating global revenue of US billion biopharmaceuticals account for one fifth of pharmaceutical market The revenue grows at per cent annually which is double that of conventional pharmaceutical products The growing demand for therapeutic proteins and increasing focus from regulatory bodies have...
INTRODUCTIONParenteral preparations are defined as solutions suspensionsemulsions for injection or infusion powders for injection or infusion gels for injection andimplants They are sterile preparations intended to be administrated directly into the systemic circulation in human or animal body
All too often the design of pharmaceutical OSD production facilities fails to recognise the impacton and the opportunities for materials handling In this article Shaun Baker considers a range of different options for materials handling the benefits and challenges in each case and the relationship be...
A Growing Pharmaceutical Market with an increase in Clinical Trials
Southeast Asia is a growing pharmaceutical market with an increase in clinical trials in recent years With a population of about million and a total area of million kilometres it contains the regions wellrecognised study destinations of Malaysia Singapore and Thailand who are also members of PICS...
ONLY 5% OF RARE DISEASES HAVE TREATMENTS. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE TO PATIENTS?
Orphan drugs those medications that are typically produced in small quantities for limited patient populations are growing in importance worldwide Once largely considered too costly to produce given the limited number of patients affected by a particular disease new technology and new breakthroughs...
PROCESS WEIGHING AND RECORDING BY OBSERVATIONThis is the process flow for weighing the reference standard where the values are recorded by observation from the balance screen and written into a laboratory notebook by an analyst The subsequent calculations are performed using a handheld calculat...
In the total number of counterfeit pills and other medications seized by Interpols Pangea pharmaceutical investigation team reached milliona drastic increase over the million seized by the same team in In May alone a single Interpol operation lead to the seizure of million counterfeit medicatio...
