Pharmacy News Articles

Ecolab Opens Healthcare Advanced Design Center to Drive Innovation for the Medical Device Industry

Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, is opening the Ecolab Healthcare Advanced Design Center in Eagan, Minn.

Picocyl Expands Product Line and Production Capacity as Demand for Pico-Cylinders Soars

As new and novel drug therapies are developed to address areas where conventional medicines are limited, drug delivery innovators, designers and manufacturers have turned to Picocyl for its unique, patented power solutions for drug and implant delivery systems.

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Announces Groundbreaking Ceremony for Massachusetts R&D Facility to House the Advanced Development Center (ADC) for Vaccine Programs

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Announces Groundbreaking Ceremony for Massachusetts R&D Facility to House the Advanced Development Center (ADC) for Vaccine Programs

Berry Global Unveils the United States’ First Comprehensive, Commercial-Scale Clean Room for Nine-Layer Blown Film Manufacturing

The ISO 7 class clean room can produce nine-layer blown film. The new installation fully encloses commercial-scale production of Berry’s proprietary nine-layer blown film from extrusion to packaging, a first in the United States. The addition further enhances Berry’s ability to supply more sensitive applications such as sterile intravenous solution bags, pharmaceutical packaging, medical equipment manufacturing, and microchip packaging.

Boston Labs and Germfree Launch Mobile Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Manufacturing Platform

Boston Labs and Germfree Launch Mobile Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Manufacturing Platform

Clinical logistics and life science manufacturing leaders Boston Labs and Germfree Laboratories Inc. today announced their partnership to launch a new network of mobile CGT manufacturing facilities.

Precision Coating Announces Merger with N2 Biomedical to Expand Medical Device Coating Platform

Precision Coating Announces Merger with N2 Biomedical to Expand Medical Device Coating Platform

Precision Coating, a leading medical coatings service provider to interventional, orthopedic, and advanced surgical markets, is pleased to announce a merger with N2 Biomedical, a Bedford, MA-based company.

New Sterile Dry Powder Injection Cleanroom by Wockhardt

New Sterile Dry Powder Injection Cleanroom by Wockhardt

With an aim to grow and further establish their international presence in pharmaceutical manufacturing, Wockhardt inaugurated a ‘state-of-the-art’ sterile dry powder injection cleanroom manufacturing facility for the production and packaging of sterile dry powder injection in Dubai. On approval of the new drug by US FDA, this manufacturing facility will be commissioned for commercial production.

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Genomma Lab Receives US$100 million Financing Package

Genomma Lab Receives US$100 million Financing Package

Genomma Lab will be able to focus on lowering its production costs, and thus offering more affordable medicines and products across the region.”, said Mr Maximo Juda, CEO of the Company. “Both multi-lateral institutions will not only provide long-term financing but also key strategic advice given their extensive industry expertise in pharma and environmental matters”, added Mr. Antonio Zamora Galland, CFO of Genomma Lab

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Atropine Autoinjector Reaches FDA Approval Safeguarding Troops from Nerve Agents

Atropine Autoinjector Reaches FDA Approval Safeguarding Troops from Nerve Agents

The Atropine Autoinjector initially received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA in April 2017. Atropine is one of the most commonly used drugs for the treatment of chemical nerve agent poisoning. With the approved Atropine Autoinjector, U.S. troops can rapidly inject atropine into the thigh muscle following nerve agent exposure.

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Almac Group Launches GMP High Throughput Peptide Manufacturing Service

Almac Group Launches GMP High Throughput Peptide Manufacturing Service

Almac has manufactured multiple High Throughput batches of neoantigen derived peptides –branded by Almac as NeoPeptides™ – for compassionate use treatments, and for P-I clinical trials, from its Edinburgh facility. Over the course of the past ten months the facility has been upgraded and segregated to enable GMP supply.

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New Biosensors For Implantable Sensing

New Biosensors For Implantable Sensing

Biosensors are devices that can detect biological molecules in air, water, or blood. They are widely used in drug development, medical diagnostics, and biological research. The growing need for continuous, real-time monitoring of biomarkers in diseases like diabetes is currently driving efforts to develop efficient and portable biosensor devices.

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Nanomachine Robot Goes To Battle With Tuberculosis

Nanomachine Robot Goes To Battle With Tuberculosis

The Brock team’s latest technology builds on an earlier version of the microscopic robot — called the three-dimensional DNA nanomachine — they created in 2016 to detect diseases in a blood sample within 30 minutes.

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Drug-Filled Nanocarriers United With Immune Cells

Drug-Filled Nanocarriers United With Immune Cells

Scientists at the Mainz University Medical Center and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) have developed a new method to enable miniature drug-filled nanocarriers to dock on to immune cells, which in turn attack tumors.

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Prosthetic Heart Valves Design Inspired by Dragonfly Larvae

Prosthetic Heart Valves Design Inspired by Dragonfly Larvae

The dragonfly larva is the only insect that uses jet propulsion to move and the only arthropod known to use reciprocal jetting—inhaling and exhaling through the same orifice—for underwater breathing,” says Roh, the lead author of a paper on the larval jets that was published online by the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimeticson May 30.

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Moderna Opens Manufacturing Facility for mRNA Therapeutics

Moderna Opens Manufacturing Facility for mRNA Therapeutics

the manufacturing facility was designed to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Moderna is limiting energy use with advanced energy metering, LED lighting, and systems designed to reduce water usage by up to 25%.

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