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Why Do Pharmaceutical Glass Containers Break: The Underestimated Power of Strength Testing and Fractography
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Why Do Pharmaceutical Glass Containers Break: The Underestimated Power of Strength Testing and Fractography

Most times in our life we use products with little understanding of how and why the packaging was selected. We usually don’t think about the design specifications of...
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Automating the De-blistering Process
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Automating the De-blistering Process

This article, by Luke Beedle, Sales Support Manager at Sharp Clinical Services, provides an overview of why de-blistering is required, what issues this creates, and ...
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Improving Adherence: Packaging’s Synergistic Role in Delivery, Communication and Education
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Improving Adherence: Packaging’s Synergistic Role in Delivery, Communication and Education

On 9 February 2016, the European Parliament and Council published the amended version of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), detailing the characteristics of th...
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Cold Chain Outsourcing: A Simple Answer to a Complex Question?
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Cold Chain Outsourcing: A Simple Answer to a Complex Question?

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are facing a new challenge. The recent patent cliff and the exponential growth in the development of high-value pharmaceutical products,...
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Designing for Quality
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Designing for Quality

Over the past several years, there has been a steady rise in new biologic drugs coming onto the market for the treatment of chronic conditions such as multiple scler...
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Parenteral Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
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Parenteral Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 will be a game changer in how the patient will interact with all the partners who are involved in all aspects of the wellbeing of the end-user. Real-tim...
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Comparison of Good Manufacturing Practice Compliance Requirements – European Union, United States and India
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Comparison of Good Manufacturing Practice Compliance Requirements – European Union, United States and India

The intentions of the current study are to expedite the compliance requirements to support the regulatory approval for selected pharmaceuticals in the United States,...
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Digital Health: Increasing the Quality and Efficiency of Care
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Digital Health: Increasing the Quality and Efficiency of Care

New technologies allow for direct patient care and necessitate an overhaul in the focus of healthcare industry business models. It is becoming clear that in order to...
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The Digital Age: Tackling the Challenges and Embracing the Opportunity
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The Digital Age: Tackling the Challenges and Embracing the Opportunity

The life sciences industry has always been incredibly innovative in its R&D and bringing new life-saving and -changing medicines, devices, diagnostic tools and p...
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Reinventing Data Management, with R&D at the Centre
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Reinventing Data Management, with R&D at the Centre

R&D generates a wealth of vital data, which is pivotal to everything else a life sciences organisation does. Yet there is often great diversity in the way this i...
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