Pharmaceutical Outsourcing covers news of importance to the contract services segment of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
The FDA has approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The FDA approved the first liquid biopsy companion diagnostic that also uses NGS technology to identify patients with specific types of mutations of the EGFR gene.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020
The FDA approved the first generic of Proventil HFA Metered Dose Inhaler, 90 mcg/Inhalation, for treatment or prevention of bronchospasm.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services announced the FDA has approved the first commercial drug manufactured using the company's AJIPHASE production process.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Narcan nasal spray, the first FDA-approved nasal spray version of naloxone hydrochloride, a life-saving medication that can stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ZEMBRACE™SymTouch™ (sumatriptan succinate) injection, a drug-device combination product intended for the treatment of acute migraine episodes, with ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Cotellic (cobimetinib) to be used in combination with vemurafenib to treat advanced melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body or can’t be removed by surgery, and that has a certain type of ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Rezon Bio announced that its Warsaw-Duchnice facility has received approval from the FDA for the commercial manufacturing of a biosimilar.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Biofrontera Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Biofrontera Pharma’s cGMP laboratory in Leverkusen, Germany, as a contract laboratory for batch control and stability testing of Ameluz® (aminolevulinic acid ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for Basaglar® (insulin glargine injection) 100 units/mL.
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Sterling Pharma Solutions, has announced that its customer, ADC Therapeutics SA, has received FDA approval for the antibody drug conjugate ZYNLONTATM that its Deeside facility contributed to developing.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
The FDA approved Abrilada (adalimumab-afzb), the 5th biosimilar to U.S.-licensed Humira (adalimumab).
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Last year was an exceptionally strong year for biopharmaceutical innovation as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 45 new medicines – the highest number of approvals in almost two decades - giving patients even greater hope for the ...
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Patients expect and deserve high-quality drugs – this means consistently safe and effective medicines, free of defects and contamination.
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The FDA has announced the retirement of the MedWatch to Manufacturer Program.
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