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Pfizer and Protalix’s Gaucher’s drug gets kosher status
Elelyso has been certified as kosher by a US Jewish group, which says the process used to make the lysosomal storage disease drug means it conforms to religious dietary laws.
Archives for July 2, 2014
Petition calls on FDA to amend informed consent requirements
The Center for Responsible Science has asked the US FDA to adopt informed consent rules which ensure that trial participants know the experimental drugs they receive may be unsafe or ineffective.
Zogenix adds abuse deterrents to Zohydro painkiller
Zogenix has modified its much-debated painkiller Zohydro with abuse-deterrent formulations.
Rechipharm contracted to make lidocaine formulation for IUD-related pain
Recipharm AB will manufacture commercial supplies of a topical formulation of the anaesthetic lidocaine called Shact that is soon to be launched by developer Pharmanest AB.
Bulk ingredient prices skyrocket in US as payers clamp down
Bulk pharmaceutical ingredients increasingly used by compounding pharmacies have seen astronomical price hikes over the past two years and now payers are catching on to the trend and stepping in.