West outlines plans for Ireland insulin injector plant and future expanisons
West Pharmaceutical Services plans to expand its global manufacturing operations with a new site in Waterford, Ireland.
Archives for October 5, 2014
Quintiles to lay off 27 New York employees
CRO Quintiles is shuttering a medical education office in Hawthorne, NY, in December and will lay off all 27 employees at the office.
'Explosive' video from TechnoPharm
Safety concerns not blown out of proportion as APIs become more volatile, says Rembe
Including explosion protection in initial facility plans can save money in the long-term, according to Rembe, especially as drugmakers continue to work with more volatile ingredients.
Workers' fears come to fruition as Hospira receives US FDA Warning at Aus plant
Hospira has received a US FDA Warning Letter at an Australian injectables facility months after workers asked the firm not turn the site into “the new Rocky Mount.”
New EMA trial transparency policy may mean higher legal costs for CROs say campaigners
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Jan. 1 will begin publishing clinical trial reports, which underpin the decision-making on medicines.
Parexel acquires RTSM service provider ClinIntel
CRO Parexel International has acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of privately-owned and UK-based ClinIntel, a provider of clinical Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) services.
Generics competition: change patent law over FAST Act, says expert
As US Congress considers the FAST (Fair Access for Safe and Timely Generics) bill to tackle “smokescreens” preventing competition, an expert tells in-Pharmatechnologist.com the problems behind marketing exclusivity run deeper and could be solved with...