Pharmaceutical Outsourcing covers news of importance to the contract services segment of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Unique Pharmaceuticals, a 503B current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) Outsourcing Facility, has announced its licensure approval in Florida.
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SGS Life Science Services has announced the completed construction of its Shanghai, China, cGMP chemistry and biotechnology testing laboratories.
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Decades of inaction to curb the overuse of life-saving antibiotics by physicians, dentists, patients, and farmers has created hard-to-treat "superbugs" that are spreading and growing stronger, with dire consequences, according to Consumer Reports.
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Huntingdon Life Sciences and Harlan Laboratories have announced that the combined companies will be called Envigo.
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Juniper Pharma Services, a subsidiary of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has entered into a long-term collaboration with OxSonics Limited to support the development, scale-up, and GMP manufacturing of OxSonics' proprietary "sono-sensitive particles."
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The current global discovery outsourcing market of cancer immunotherapy is about $2.8 B. In the past five years (2010 - 2014), its CAGR was about 37%. Based on analysis, Research and Markets forecast that the global cancer immunotherapy-focused drug ...
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Aeterna Zentaris Inc. has executed a definitive agreement with Ergomed to manage the new, confirmatory Phase 3 clinical study to demonstrate the efficacy of Macrilen™ (macimorelin), a novel orally-active ghrelin agonist for use in evaluating adult ...
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PwC US announced that the firm has been awarded a government contract to aid in the mission of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the advancement of global health.
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The makers of the potent painkiller OxyContin have pulled out of a federal meeting to review the company's harder-to-abuse version of the much-debated drug.
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From research dollars to free lunches and junkets, drug and medical device companies paid doctors and leading hospitals nearly $6.5 billion last year, according to government data posted Tuesday.
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Industry Standard Research (ISR) has announced the availability of the "Contract Manufacturer Quality Benchmarking (2015)" report, providing a comprehensive assessment of CMO service quality.
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Ampersand Capital Partners has appointed Patrick D. Walsh as Chief Executive Officer of Avista Pharma Solutions and Accuratus Labs.
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Recently. FDA issued the DSCSA Implementation: Product Tracing Requirements for Dispensers–Compliance Policy Guidance. This document announces that FDA does not intend to take enforcement action against dispensers who, prior to November 1, 2015:
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Capsugel has completed construction of a new pharmaceutical spray-dried dispersion (SDD) commercial manufacturing facility at its site in Bend, Oregon.
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One vaccine used in Europe during the 2009 swine flu pandemic was linked to rare cases of a baffling side effect — the sleep disorder narcolepsy. Now new research offers a clue to what happened.
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