EU’s Clinical Trial Directive ‘put no brake on trials’
Contrary to fears, the European Union’s Clinical Trials Directive has not had an inhibitory effect on the number of studies carried out by publicly-funded researchers, at least in Denmark.
Archives for September 1, 2008
bioMerieux launches new clean room testing range
bioMerieux hopes that its new specially-packaged growth media products will help it “clean up” in the pharmaceutical industry’s lucrative sterility testing market
Chromatide signs HPLC deal
UK-based polymer technology specialist Chromatide and Akzo Nobel's Separation Products (SP) unit are teaming to develop a HPLC media for purification applications in the drug manufacturing industry.
Merck’s ADVANTAGE trial misled patients, claim researchers
Merck & Co has been accused of carrying out clinical trials of its Vioxx (rofecoxib) painkiller that were designed primarily for marketing purposes rather than to answer a clinical hypothesis.
Major expansion at Coating Place completed
Microencapsulation specialist Coating Place Inc has just completed a major expansion of its contract manufacturing capacity in Wisconsin, US.
Shionogi seeks US sales boost with $1.4bn Sciele bid
Japan’s Shionogi is paying $1.4bn (€959m) for US drugmaker Sciele Pharma as part of a plan to strengthen its sales position in the country’s $286bn a year drug market.