Generics Drugs - news, views, reports

A generic drug (generic drugs, short: generics) is a drug defined as "a drug product that is comparable to brand/reference listed drug product in dosage form, strength, route of administration,...

The Top 100 Drugs

The pharmaceutical industry is massive, both in range of products and in financial values. These are the top 200 drugs (ranked in descending order according to total sales in 20010, $), and the co...

Fujifilm Earns Best Overall Manufacturer by KLAS

Fujifilm named best overall medical equipment manufacturer in Best in KLAS awards. Leaders were also selected in MR, CT, digital mammo and other categories.

MicroTech delivers Stingray wet process system to undisclosed medical device manufacturer

MicroTech, a US-based wet process and chemical distribution equipment manufacturer, has delivered its Stingray semi-automated intelligent wet process system to an undisclosed Midwest medical device ma...

Pii named as manufacturer of drug withdrawn by Sun Pharma

US CMO Pharmaceutics International (Pii) has been named as the manufacturer of the cranial bleeding treatment voluntarily withdrawn by India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries earlier this week.

FDA Cites API Manufacturer for Stability, Purification Violations

The US FDA has warned API manufacturer Abbey Color about its inadequate stability program and unreliable water purification system, both of which were cited as earlier violations.

Norwich Pharmaceuticals Awarded Chenango County, NY Manufacturer of the Year

Norwich Pharmaceuticals has been recognized as Manufacturer of the Year by the Chenango County, New York Chamber of Commerce.

Another manufacturer blocks drug for execution use (Update)

(AP)—A manufacturer of the anesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson's death said Thursday it won't sell propofol for use in U.S. executions, a setback for Missouri and other states looking for an alter...

Another Manufacturer Blocks Drug for Execution Use

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A manufacturer of the anesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson's death said Thursday it won't sell propofol for use in U.S. executions, a setback for Missouri and other states look...

Pfizer, Sanofi And Others Scramble To Comply With China Ex-Manufacturer Drug Price Survey

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has stepped up pressure by naming names – Bayer, GSK, J&J, Merck and others – in an effort to prompt drug manufacturers to submit ex-manufa...

Impairing loyalty: corporate responsibility for clinical misadventure.

A medical device manufacturer pays a surgeon to demonstrate a novel medical instrument in a live broadcast to an audience of specialists in another city. The surgical patient is unaware of the broadca...

Outcome of palliative self-expanding metal stent placement in malignant colorectal obstruction according to stent type and manufacturer.

BACKGROUND: Self-expandable metallic stents (SEMS) of varying designs and materials have been developed to reduce complications, but few comparative data are available with regard to the type of stent...

Industry involvement and baseline assumptions of cost-effectiveness analyses: diagnostic accuracy of the Papanicolaou test.

Background Industry involvement has been associated with more favourable cost-effectiveness ratios in cost-effectiveness analyses, but the mechanisms for this association are unclear. We evaluated whe...

Factor VIII Bypassing Activity (FEIBA) assays: standardization and development of the 1st NIBSC Working Standard for FEIBA - results from a collaborative study.

Factor-Eight-Inhibitor-Bypassing-Activity (FEIBA) is a bypassing-agent used to control spontaneous bleeding or cover surgical interventions in Haemophiliacs who develop neutralizing antibodies against...

Trabectedin for the Treatment of Advanced Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma: A NICE Single Technology Appraisal.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer of trabectedin (PharmaMar) to submit evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of this drug for the tre...