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Oral Insulin: All Mouth, or an Injection of Hope for Type 1 Diabetes?

23-May-2013 - Can oral insulin succeed where other alternative delivery methods have failed? Dan Stanton, from in-Pharmatechnologist.com assesses its chances. 

DISPATCHES FROM INTERPHEX

New DFS Unit Built on Technology, R&D and Manufacturing, says Capsugel

22-May-2013 - Following a busy few months, Capsugel spoke about the formation of its Dosage Form Solutions Unit, its technology and the integration of Encap at this year's Interphex in New York.

Aspen & Local CMOs to Benefit from GSK's Aus Packaging Plant Closure

22-May-2013 - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) says some manufacturing from the shuttering of an Australian packaging site will be picked up by Aspen and local third-party contractors.

Live from Interphex

IHolland Talks Tabletting Solutions for Sticky Formulations

24-Apr-2013 - IHolland says tableting-focused research project will save customers time and money.

Drug Industry gathers for Interphex 2013 - Check for live updates

23-Apr-2013 - Pharmaceutical conferences are like buses - to paraphrase an old British joke - you wait for one and then three come along at once.

Metrics Latest Company to Offer Extrusion and Speronization Tech

18-Apr-2013 - Following its acquisition by Mayne Pharma, Metrics says it is to offer proprietary pellet form technology for advanced drug release and to increase bioavailability.

Chinese Drugmakers Still Suffering from Chromium Capsule Scandal

17-Apr-2013 - Biostar Pharmaceuticals has blamed end-of-year losses on last year’s chromium-tainted gelatin scandal though it is slowly recovering following a suspension of sales enforced by the SFDA.

Further Hope for Oral Insulin as Israeli Delivery Tech Gets Patent

04-Apr-2013 - Jerusalem, Israel-based drugmaker Oramed Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent approval for its oral insulin technology by the Japanese Patent office.

FDA’s Tablet ‘Scoring’ Guidance Aims to Bridge Generic, Brand Divide

19-Mar-2013 - Marketed drugs will not need to be tested under final guidelines  on 'tablet scoring' for branded and generic medicines issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week.

Maquet and GSK Boost Novozymes’ Albumin Business

12-Mar-2013 - Novozymes says a recombinant albumin product usually used to stabilize vaccines has been approved in Japan as part of a coating for medical devices.

Update

Ashland to Expand Delaware Formulation and Contract Manufacturing

11-Mar-2013 - Ashland says it is expanding its contract manufacturing business in order to offer its customers greater scope in drug solubilization.

Oral Dose Competition Intensifies as Qualicaps Expands Manufacturing

26-Feb-2013 - Following a bout of investments, the oral dose solution market has been described as “competitive” and “dynamic” by two of the major players.

Capsugel Launches New Oral Formulation Business Unit

21-Feb-2013 - Capsugel says it will focus on lipid-based formulations as it launches a new Dosage Form Solutions Business Unit.

PSL says demand for HPAPI containment growing

12-Feb-2013 - Powder Systems Limited (PSL) says the low OEL achieved by its redesigned containment technologies meet demands of HPAPI focused drug industry.

Find esophageal transit failure hard to swallow? Fuisz says new pill design can help

24-Jan-2013 - Fuisz Pharma says a new tablet design will be of interest to pharma formulators who find esophageal transit failures hard to swallow.

Predicting most effective non-stick coatings will save Pharmas money, says I Holland

17-Dec-2012 - The ability to predict which non-stick coating is best suited to a particular tablet production environment will save drugmakers time and money according to I Holland.

Indian regulations will hike costs but market will remain competitive, Government tells IPT

15-Nov-2012 - Domestic regulatory efforts to improve ingredient quality will increase costs but Indian industry will remain competitive, according to the Secretary of Commerce.

Disptaches from AAPS

Eliminate scale up by using R&D equipment for commercial production: GSK

18-Oct-2012 - Using the same equipment from R&D to scale up will cut costs, time and improve efficiency, according to GSK.

Sumitomo showcases combined coating and contamination assessment tech

08-Oct-2012 - Sumitomo Electric has launched a new tech that combines tablet coating assessment with organic materials detection capabilities.