Manufacturing & Packaging

When pharma deliveries involve a multicomponent kit, contractors offer dedicated services

Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting: Combating the Real Danger from Fake Drugs

Structured product labeling--along with more formalized methods of tracking changes--seek to improve patient safety

UDP proponents have solid data that demonstrate that this form of packaging maintains better compliance with treatment regimens

Leading specialty pharmacy expects to hire 1000, nearly tripling in size over the next five years

While all the market indicators point to healthy growth, managing the CMO relationship is a challenge. Industry collaboration might fill in the regulatory gap

Often mistakenly considered an afterthought, today’s packaging and delivery systems can powerfully affect the safety, efficacy and commercial success of injectables

TruScan and related optical technologies provide economical field testing of product identification or authentication

Although overshadowed by oral solids, oral liquids provide important benefits for pediatric, geriatric and specialized therapies

New device links healthcare providers to patients for reminder notifications

How Contract Manufacturers Can Help Pharma Through The Era of Divestiture

18th annual Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council meeting celebrates the benefits of unit-dose packaging

The types of delivery mechanisms that vary the uptake of a drug are multiplying

Parenteral (injectable) drugs gain user acceptance even as biotech brings more of them onto the market

How the many anticounterfeiting measures on the market today could turn into a means of connecting with patients

The dilemma: packaging a drug for a condition that makes self-administration difficult

Schering-Plough implements packaging line vision technology with a view toward future data collection needs

As more temperature-sensitive product move around the globe, industry and regulators intensify their efforts to improve packaging and manage safe shipping

FDA denies use of ‘calendarizing’ features when added to an ANDA

Blister card container has consumer-friendly features