Id Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals with Portable Raman
Rigaku
| « Previous month | Next month » |
29-Aug-2003
Flamel shares surge on BMS deal
29-Aug-2003 - French company Flamel Technologies has added another high-profile client for its drug delivery technology, spurring another leap in its shares that have already climbed almost...
Study details best practice in QC
29-Aug-2003 - Focusing on quality initiatives helps top-performing pharmaceutical labs reduce manufacturing costs and minimise production time, according to a new study from pharmaceutical research firm Best...
Human proteins made in yeast
29-Aug-2003 - Researchers in the US have managed for the first time to produce a fully human protein - including complex sugar side chains - in a...
Sticky problem for Acambis
29-Aug-2003 - The delivery of millions of doses of Acambis' smallpox vaccine to the US government has been delayed because of a disagreement over the best glue...
Kyorin unveils new oral dose plant
29-Aug-2003 - Japan's Kyorin Pharmaceuticals plans to invest some 8 billion yen (€62.5m) in a new facility to produce tablet and capsule formulations. This will replace an...
28-Aug-2003
IBM unveils R&D productivity package
28-Aug-2003 - IBM has introduced its new InsightLink software, an application created by its IBM Life Sciences and IBM Research divisions to help pharmaceutical companies create searchable...
27-Aug-2003
Edible vaccines closer to market
27-Aug-2003 - Transgenic plant technologies could lead to a revolution in vaccine production and manufacture and, should plant-based vaccines prove effective in clinical trials, this will drive...
Rhodia to close US paracetamol plant
27-Aug-2003 - France's Rhodia is to close a production unit for paracetamol/acetaminophen located within the massive Monsanto manufacturing complex in Luling, Louisiana, US. However, the company re-affirmed...
UK relaxes salt/ester rules for generics
27-Aug-2003 - The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has stepped back from its requirement that generic products based on a different salt or ester...
New lutetium-177 source for cancer drugs
27-Aug-2003 - Supplies of a radioisotope that could provide the radiation payload for a new generation of cancer treatments have improved, now that International Isotopes has entered...
German health reforms drive out Pfizer, Merck
27-Aug-2003 - US pharmaceuticals major Pfizer is considering cutting some of its activities in Germany due to government health reforms, according to a report in Die Welt...
Long-term plasmid storage feasible
27-Aug-2003 - Germany's PlasmidFactory has published long-term stability data for its plasmid DNA, which the company hopes will become an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for drugs such...
26-Aug-2003
FP6 information day for biopharmaceutical SMEs
26-Aug-2003 - The European Union's group for emerging biopharmaceutical enterprises (EBE) will hold an information day on priority one of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) - life...
25-Aug-2003
S-P cuts jobs to slash costs
25-Aug-2003 - Embattled pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough has lowered its financial forecasts for the second time and unveiled a fresh round of cost cutting in an attempt to...
Amcor expansion continues apace
25-Aug-2003 - Australian packaging group Amcor has entered into a A$330 million (€198m) agreement to buy Rexam's healthcare flexibles packaging business and will also buy out Danisco...
Zengen claims a first with drug-laden oral strip
25-Aug-2003 - Zengen of the USA has said that its technology has been used in a melt-in-the-mouth oral strip product, the first time that such a product...
Granules India opens world's largest PFI facility
25-Aug-2003 - Granules India has started commercial operations at its new pharmaceutical formulation intermediates (PFI) facility at Gagillapur near Hyderabad. The new unit with a capacity of...
Major MS component deal for Oxford Instruments
25-Aug-2003 - Oxford Instruments has won a €3 million order from Thermo Electron for the supply of superconducting magnets that will be used in the latter's recently...
22-Aug-2003
Focus shift for Fugensoft
22-Aug-2003 - US e-business software company Fugensoft has revamped its product range, introducing a suite of new products and a change of focus, to meet the needs...
Capacity utilisation ups profit margins
22-Aug-2003 - Top pharmaceutical manufacturing plants strive to achieve efficient operations that result in increased profitability as well as superior product quality and satisfied customers. These are...
Aastrom gets go ahead for vaccine kits
22-Aug-2003 - US biopharmaceutical company Aastrom Biosciences has received approval to market and sell its DCV-II cancer vaccine production kits in the European Union. The third dendritic...
Market approval for SARS test
22-Aug-2003 - Abbott Laboratories and artus have gained European approval for their RealArt HPA Coronavirus LC RT Reagents, a diagnostic test for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)....
21-Aug-2003
S&N take stake in Portuguese brewery
21-Aug-2003 - Scottish & Newcastle, the UK brewing and leisure group, confirmed last week the acquisition of a 49 per cent stake in Central De Cervejas (Centralcer),...
Carlsberg bids for local rival
21-Aug-2003 - Carlsberg, the Danish brewer, announced last week a friendly takeover bid for Albani Brewery. The brewing giant offered DKr378m ($46m) for the company. But the...
Clariant beefs up clinical manufacturing support
21-Aug-2003 - Chemicals group Clariant has announced plans to establish a research-based Technology Centre that will support the pharmaceutical industry in the commercialisation of new drugs. The...
20-Aug-2003
BioProgress makes first system sales
20-Aug-2003 - BioProgress of the UK, which specialises in delivery mechanisms for the pharmaceutical oral dosage markets, has sold the first two machines in its line of...
Catalyst deal for Materia and Sigma
20-Aug-2003 - Sigma-Aldrich of the USA has negotiated an exclusive contract to distribute research quantities of a range of catalysts developed by Materia that are used in...
Fisher extends Perbio offer
20-Aug-2003 - Fisher Scientific International of the US has extended its SK5.3 billion (€573m) recommended offer for Perbio Science, the Swedish biotechnology company, after failing to win...
Sewage is full of drugs, says study
20-Aug-2003 - Sewage is known to contain varying levels of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs), but waste water treatment approaches are able to remove the chemicals...
The end of the blockbuster?
20-Aug-2003 - Pharmaceutical companies will be unable to rely on blockbuster products to drive growth in the latter half of the decade according to new research from...
18-Aug-2003
Xenova plans to buy KS Bio
18-Aug-2003 - Xenova has become the latest company to ride the wave of consolidation sweeping the UK biotechnology industry by offering to buy KS Biomedix in an...
Packaging case ends in victory for parallel traders
18-Aug-2003 - Companies which specialise in parallel imports of pharmaceuticals to European Union (EU) countries have escaped stringent limitations on the packaging they can use for their...
Bayer's Walothen subsidiary sold off
18-Aug-2003 - German chemicals and drugs company Bayer has said that it plans to sell its subsidiary Walothen to Finland's Wihuri as part of an ongoing restructuring...
Daicel forges US links to expand business
18-Aug-2003 - Japan's Daicel Chemical Industries has entered into an agreement with Thesis Chemistry of the US in a deal which will see the two companies collaborate...
Honeywell awarded GSK contract
18-Aug-2003 - Honeywell Industry Solutions has been signed up by GlaxoSmithKline to implement a software-based system designed to manage the multinational's clinical manufacturing operations. The POMS CMS...
New blister samples from PRG
18-Aug-2003 - MeadWestvaco's Packaging Resources Group has developed a range of blister samples and an educational brochure to demonstrate how its new paperboard substrates can be used...
Roche reports weak sales
18-Aug-2003 - Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, this week reported weaker than expected sales growth. This news, together with the statement that their respected chief financial officer,...
Oden rolls out digital blending system
18-Aug-2003 - Oden, a specialist in advanced liquid filling technology, has introduced its Mass/Blend Continuous Stream Digital Blending System, designed to eliminate problems associated with large batch...
Vitamin C good for the gums
18-Aug-2003 - People who consume less that the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for Vitamin C have marginally higher rates of periodontal disease, according to new research. The...
Seagram merger given U.S. go ahead
18-Aug-2003 - The proposed three-way merger between French groups Vivendi and Canal Plus and Montreal-based Seagram group has been given the go ahead by US regulators. Seagram,...
13-Aug-2003
Needle-free injection coming of age
13-Aug-2003 - Decades after being introduced, improvements in injector design and performance and evolving health care market forces have finally positioned needle-free injection as a serious alternative...
Crucell boosted by gene delivery deal
13-Aug-2003 - Dutch biotechnology company Crucell has signed up an additional client, GeneMax of the USA, for its PER.C6 biological drug production technology. Crucell shares closed 3.6...
Degussa sees sales, profits slump in second quarter
13-Aug-2003 - Degussa, the world's largest speciality chemicals company, today joined its peers in the industry by posting interim sales and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)...
Novartis may shut Indian rifampicin plant
13-Aug-2003 - Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis is planning to shut its only manufacturing facility in India, at Mahad in Maharashtra, because of increasing competition. Novartis makes the...
China Pharma triples net profit
13-Aug-2003 - China Pharmaceutical Group, a Hong Kong-based supplier of bulk pharmaceuticals and vitamins, has more than tripled net profit in the first half to HK$359.4 million...
Genetix makes first sale of cell picker
13-Aug-2003 - The UK's Genetix, which makes gene and protein research equipment, said it had received orders from leading pharmaceutical groups for two of its new products....
Swedish biotechs link up
13-Aug-2003 - Sweden's Pyrosequencing, a genetic analysis systems manufacturer, has acquired a 94.1 per cent stake in privately held chemical synthesis concern Personal Chemistry in an all-stock...
12-Aug-2003
USA speeds generic approvals
12-Aug-2003 - The pharmaceutical industry is facing the possibility of earlier generic competition for its branded products from 18 August, when new legislation in the USA comes...
11-Aug-2003
Japan follows suit on PPA ban
11-Aug-2003 - Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has ordered companies to stop producing over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceuticals containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA). The move comes nearly two years...
GSK licenses bioavailability patent
11-Aug-2003 - A patent covering a technology aimed at improving the oral bioavailability of cancer drugs has been licensed by GlaxoSmithKline. The patent application has been licensed...
EuropaBio names keynote speakers
11-Aug-2003 - The organisers of CORDIA EuropaBio 2003 have revealed the list of keynote speakers for the meeting, claimed to be the biotechnology industry's largest convention in...
FTC takes on alleged process control software monopoly
11-Aug-2003 - The US Federal Trade Commission has alleged that the $106 million (€94m) acquisition of Canada's Hyprotech by Aspen Technology in 2002 led to a dominant...
08-Aug-2003
BASF sees no recovery until fourth quarter
08-Aug-2003 - BASF, the world's largest chemicals company, has said that it will expand a restructuring program in North America after reporting lower-than-expected second-quarter sales and profits....
Caliper sheds jobs after Zymark buy
08-Aug-2003 - Caliper Technologies has said that it will reduce its work force by approximately 50 positions, or 9 per cent of its total head count, as...
Bayer sales on the slide in second quarter
08-Aug-2003 - German drug and chemicals major Bayer has reported a decline in net profits for the second quarter of 2003, but said comparisons were skewed by...
Cambrex sells non-core business
08-Aug-2003 - US life science chemicals company Cambrex plans to sell off its Rutherford Chemicals business for $64 million (€56m), in a move that will allow it...
New player Hikal offers gabapentin
08-Aug-2003 - India's Hikal has entered into an agreement with an unnamed US-based pharmaceutical company to supply gabapentin, a $2 billion (€1.76bn) antidepressant that is going off...
New contract manufacturer buys plant
08-Aug-2003 - KBI BioPharma, a biotechnology start-up that specialises in contract manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals, has signed a deal to buy a 300,000-square-foot facility in Durham, North Carolina,...
07-Aug-2003
Roche takes crystal-clear route to development
07-Aug-2003 - Swiss drugmaker Roche has succeeded in developing a crystalline form of one of its pipeline compounds with the help of a US company, TransForm Pharmaceuticals,...
06-Aug-2003
Transgenic production for the birds
06-Aug-2003 - US company AviGenics has successfully produced biologically active human interferon and human monoclonal antibodies in transgenic chickens. The news, reported at an IBC conference called...
Cobra signs cancer vaccine production deal
06-Aug-2003 - Cobra Biomanufacturing of the UK has signed an agreement to supply the USA's Advaxis with clinical and commercial supplies of the active ingredient for its...
Irish meeting on manufacturing excellence
06-Aug-2003 - A conference on batch process automation and asset management in the pharmaceutical industry is scheduled to take place in Cork, Ireland, on 22-23 October. Sponsored...
LIT spectrometer pushes back sensitivity barrier
06-Aug-2003 - A linear ion trap (LIT) spectrometer that is up to 10 times more sensitive than current products on the market will be launched at this...
04-Aug-2003
EU updates excipient labelling guidance
04-Aug-2003 - The European Commission has updated its guidelines on the labelling of excipients used in medicinal products. An Annex to the document provides a list of...
Azlon unveils double-secure bottles
04-Aug-2003 - Azlon Plastic Packaging, a subsidiary of Bibby Sterilin, has introduced a range of pharmaceutical screw top bottles that combine both tamper-evident and child-resistant closures. Most...
MSA plant at BASF goes on-line
04-Aug-2003 - BASF has completed the construction of a production plant for high-purity methanesulfonic acid, a chemical widely used in the chemical industry and in the synthesis...
Recordati planning pharmachem sale
04-Aug-2003 - Italy's Recordati has said that it plans to sell off its pharmaceutical chemical activities over the next few months in order to concentrate on its...
Schott patents coated container for drugs
04-Aug-2003 - Germany's Schott Glas has been granted a US patent on a glass container for storing medicines that incorporates an anti-adherent coating on its inner surface....
Pfizer pulls out of Phytopharm collaboration
04-Aug-2003 - Botanical drug specialist Phytopharm suffered a setback yesterday when Pfizer withdrew from a collaboration to develop P57, a drug for obesity and metabolic syndrome. The...
01-Aug-2003
Interims confirm turnaround at Flamel
01-Aug-2003 - French drug delivery specialist Flamel Technologies saw its second quarter revenues rise 14 per cent to $5 million (€4.4m) over the same period of 2002,...
Bayer contract aids Probitas expansion
01-Aug-2003 - Grifols Engineering has signed an agreement with the Biological Products division at Bayer Healthcare in the USA to supply patented pharmaceutical engineering equipment for its...
Nanotechnology advisory group set up in UK
01-Aug-2003 - A UK programme aimed at identifying the environmental, health and safety, ethical and societal implications of nanotechnology has appointed a working group to oversee the...
Biotech merger wave gathers up KS Bio
01-Aug-2003 - UK biopharmaceutical company KS Biomedix has confirmed that it is in negotiations that may lead to a merger and add to the mini-wave of consolidation...
Budget tablet press launched in UK
01-Aug-2003 - Isopak of the UK has introduced a single punch benchtop tablet press machine that is designed to answer the needs of small laboratories, pharmacies and...
| « Previous month | Next month » |
Most Popular News
Key Industry Events
Products
On demand Supplier Webinars
Discover innovative single-use mixer for efficient mixing of low shear and particulate sensitive solutions in cGMP environment
ATMI Life Science
ATMI Life Science
