Pharma Articles
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.
The Impact of Materials Handling on Facility Design and Operation
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...
Untapped Opportunities in Southeast Asia
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...
When Orphan Drugs Make All the Difference
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...
The Unknown Sources of Error in the Pharmaceutical Weighing Process
PROCESS WEIGHING AND RECORDING BY OBSERVATION This 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...
A BITTER PILL: Exploring the Realm of Drug Counterfeiting
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...
Delivering On The Vast Potential Of Personalized Medicine
Patients in the st century have joined an increasingly visible group of empowered consumers These consumers are techsavvy informed handson global and increasingly in control of when where and how they are treated Personalized medicine is the exciting result of these empowered patients seeking hig...
Immature Platelet Fraction- A Clinical Parameter In The Management Of Thrombocytopenia
Thrombopoiesis is a dynamic process which has varying physiologic responses in different clinical conditions In newly diagnosed thrombocytopenic patients or patients that have thrombocytopenia secondary to disease or drug therapy it is crucial for a clinician to understand its underlying mechanism T...
The Significance of Process Validation in Pharmaceutical Industry
The documented verification of specific processes and systems against required specifications is known as process validation Validation is an integrated process in the pharmaceutical industry as it is mandatory to comply with national and international standards of FDA and EMA Validation ensures tha...
Better ways to handle tablets using IBCs
Still handling tablets in drums It is common to find Intermediate Bulk Containers IBCs being used for handling powders and granules in solid dosage manufacturing processes from initial Dispensing through to Tablet Compression or Capsule Filling The benefits of using IBCs for efficient and flexibl...
Personalised cell therapy
Personalised treatment Personalised medical treatment has matured to integrate into biopharmaceutical drug development pathways This type of treatment targets patients with a specific drug that matches the specific disease physiopathology andor patient characteristics eg genomic profile and disea...
Pricing Pharmaceuticals in India
Pricing Pharmaceuticals in India
The issue of striking an optimum level of drug pricing so as to favor both the customers as well as the producers has been one of the most volatile subjects at the hands of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority NPPA for the last one year A major determinant of drug pricing policy at a global sca...
A Practical Approach to the Selection of Cleanroom Disinfectants
A Practical Approach to the Selection of Cleanroom Disinfectants
Introduction Cleanrooms play an important role in hospitals from special environments for the preparation of medicines in pharmacies to providing clean air zones for operations Cleanrooms are designed with special air filters high efficiency particulate air to provide clean air have positive pr
Biosimilars Perspective and its Challenges
Biosimilars Perspective and its Challenges
Introduction Although currently small and narrowly focussed on a few disease areas and countries the Biosimilars landscape is set to expand as patents expire on leading biologics US legislation comes into effect vision for pharma emerging markets and payers push for their wider adoption to manage...
Why is Good Tablet Design so Important and how to Achieve it?
Why is Good Tablet Design so Important and how to Achieve it?
Detailed design of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical tablets is essential in order to produce robust tablets with bespoke designs Tablet manufacturers should not overlook tablet design because it is key to the quality of the end product With sufficient forethought and consideration most potential...
