21-May-2008 - Big pharma's lust for biotech's pipelines appears to be continuing unabated with a record $27bn-worth of acquisitions and licensing deals being made last year.
21-May-2008 - The Indian government is close to rubber-stamping an $80bn industrial hub near Vishakhapatnam (Vizag) which is expected to attract pharmaceutical companies to the region.
20-May-2008 - The FDA has issued US drug maker Scientific Laboratories with an injunction preventing it from producing drugs until manufacturing operations are brought up to code.
20-May-2008 - A grim future awaits workers in the French pharmaceutical industry, with 32,000 jobs at risk between 2005 and 2015, according to a study commissioned by Leem, the French pharmaceutical industry body.
20-May-2008 - The European Union's 2007 pharmaceutical counterfeiting data shows that almost 40 per cent of fake medicines seized by the EU originated in Switzerland.
15-May-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
15-May-2008 - The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has revealed plans to tighten the drug registration review process as it attempts to improve standards in the nation.
07-May-2008 - UK-based Cambridge Consultants has developed a portable instrument which it says could "revolutionise" the way airborne drug delivery devices are tested.
05-May-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Merck & Co a warning letter saying it has failed to correct a number of manufacturing deficiencies at its main vaccine manufacturing plant in West Point, Pennsylvania.
05-May-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn its long-standing block on the manufacture of new products at Watson Pharmaceuticals' facility in Davie, Florida.
30-Apr-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
24-Apr-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in pharmaceutical manufacturing and development.
23-Apr-2008 - The European Commission has updated its annex covering computerisation of process control, documentation and data-processing systems to take into account developments in the field.
23-Apr-2008 - The problems facing companies trying to bring 'biosimilar' versions of biologic drugs to market were thrown into stark relief yesterday when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to approve Genzyme's genetic disorder treatment Myozyme made at the firm's Allston facility.
22-Apr-2008 - Draft legislation has been put forward which would require the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inspect foreign manufacturing plants every four years.
21-Apr-2008 - Frank Torti has been appointed to the newly created post of chief scientist at the FDA, with a brief to "oversee, coordinate, and ensure quality and regulatory focus of the intramural research programs".
17-Apr-2008 - Dr Hans Groeger has been appointed to the role of site manager at Roche Carolina's Florence facility.
17-Apr-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a document in an attempt to harmonise pharmacogenomic definitions and sample coding guidance.
10-Apr-2008 - Recent months have seen a number of different organisations call into question the effectiveness of generics in comparison to their brand name counterparts.
10-Apr-2008 - Pfizer has updated the US product labeling of its inhaled insulin treatment Exubera to include a warning of increased risk of lung cancer among those using it.
09-Apr-2008 - Stiefel Laboratories, Biopharm Services, Multisorb Technologies, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Catalent Pharma Solutions and Chromatide have all had people on the move in the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
09-Apr-2008 - A new set of draft guidelines aims to identify the core scientific competencies required by firms working in the UK's £3.3bn (€4.2bn) bioscience sector.
08-Apr-2008 - A rapid microbial detection kit presented as the only genetic-based test on the market to quantify yeast and mould has been launched by Switzerland's Lonza.
08-Apr-2008 - The Indian government has reacted to the enforced closure of three of its oldest vaccine manufacturing plants by launching a plan to convert them to drug testing laboratories.
07-Apr-2008 - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has scored a decisive victory in its efforts to head off new US patent rules that would strike at the heart of the way the drug industry goes about protecting its inventions.