Market News & Trends
Enterprise Content Management; Answer to Clinical Data Boom
The introduction of mandates involving meaningful use of data and various governmental eHealth initiatives across the globe are fuelling the adoption of electronic medical records…
UPM Signs Long-Term Agreement With Amerigen
UPM, a division of Gregory Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc., has reached an agreement with Amerigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to commercially manufacture two ANDA products for a 10-year…
Wearable Injectors: A Small Device That Can Make a Big Difference for IV Infusion
By: Alan Shortall, Chairman and CEO of Unilife. As part of a campaign to draw attention to the rising costs of healthcare in the U.S.,…
EMD Millipore Introduces New CEO & President
EMD Millipore recently announced the appointment of Udit Batra, PhD, as its incoming President and CEO, responsible for the organization’s strategic direction to drive growth…
Mystic Pharmaceuticals Receives Patent for Packaging & Delivery Technology
Mystic Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced it has been granted US Patent No. 8,683,995 Dose Dispensing Containers for its latest innovations in pharmaceutical packaging and dispensers.…
USPTO Grants New Inhaler Patent
Hovione recently announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent for a capsule-based, low-cost dry powder inhaler (DPI) to…
LTI: A Better Resource on Lyophilization
Lyophilization Technology, Inc. (LTI) recently announced the official release of its enhanced website: www.lyotechnology.com. The website’s new homepage welcomes you with a clean functional design…
Vetter Launches New Clinical Syringe Packages
Vetter, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), recently introduced two clinical syringe packages that make it easier to start syringe development earlier in…
PolyTherics & MacroGenics Extend ThioBridge Collaboration
PolyTherics Limited recently announced an extension to its ThioBridge antibody drug conjugate (ADC) collaboration with MacroGenics Inc. PolyTherics has developed ThioBridge for site-specific conjugation of…
Indonesian Pharmaceutical Market Sees Rapid Expansion
Driven by increased government healthcare spending and growing life expectancy, the Indonesian pharmaceutical market value will climb from approximately $5 billion in 2013 to $9.9…
Growth Foreseen at All Levels of the Oral Solid Dosage Form Excipients Market
On a global scale, the oral solid dosage form (OSDF) excipients market is growing sustainably, historically exhibiting a robust increase. This market is valued at…
Monitoring Degree of Agglomeration in Aqueous Suspensions Subjected to Various Environmental Conditions by Raman Imaging
By: Oksana Olkhovyk, Senior Scientist, Gateway Analytical, Gibsonia, PA, USA Outsourcing the development and manufacturing of generic drug products is a very common strategy…
Type 2 Diabetes Next-Generation Therapeutics Create Vast Opportunities in Europe
Type 2 diabetes is one of the most significant global health concerns of modern times. According to the International Diabetes Federation, more than 55…
FDA Endorses, Pushes for Abuse-Resistant Opioid Formulations: Transition to Disrupt Pain Market
The opioid market is dominated by non-tamper-resistant formulations (TRFs), but the FDA’s promotion of TRF therapies could well result in the departure of non-TRF therapies…
Automated Anatomic Pathology Labs Transform Global Tissue Diagnostics Market
Growth in diagnostic test volume conducted across hospitals worldwide is lending momentum to the global tissue diagnostics market. In addition, the shortage of pathologists to…
Bladder Cancer Market to Witness Moderate Growth by 2017
The bladder cancer therapeutics market in the six major countries (6MM) - the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK - is forecast to climb…
Entirely Novel Strategy to Molecular Anticancer Therapy Tricks Malignant Cells
A ground-breaking study spearheaded by Scientific Director Giulio Superti-Furga at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences shows that…
Noxilizer & Weiler Announce Exclusive Agreement for Blow/Fill/Seal Market
Noxilizer, Inc., the company advancing a room temperature, NO2-based sterilization process for life science manufacturers, and Weiler Engineering, Inc., a leader in the global Blow/Fill/Seal…
EMD Millipore Develops Simplified Protocol for Rapid Purification of Recombinant Proteins
EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, recently introduced a new recombinant protein purification protocol that combines lysis and purification…
Novozymes’ VELTIS Technology Used in GlaxoSmithKline Drug Approved in Europe
Novozymes Biopharma DK A/S recently announced that its albumin-based VELTIS half-life extension technology is being used by GlaxoSmithKline in the recently authorized Eperzan (albiglutide) for…