The Pharmacovigilance Legislation Will Come into Effect in July As the European Medicines Agency’s new PV (pharmacovigilance) Legislation implementation date of July 2012 approaches, US and European pharmaceutical and biotech companies need to ask th…
Drug dispensing robots designed to quickly prepare intravenous medications in a sterile environment can harbor dangerous bacteria, according to a report in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiol…
A discovery published in the March 25 issue of Nature Chemical Biology reveals that biomolecular engineers from Cornell University have discovered that Escherichia coli, a bacteria that is considered to be a severe threat in terms of food safety by res…
Researchers at the Florida State University have developed a new technology which could substantially reduce the cost of drug discovery. The study, published in the recent issue of Biomaterials, could lead to better and improved access to high-quality …
North Carolina State University researchers have created specially engineered mammalian cells to provide a new “chemical handle” which will enable researchers to label proteins of interest more efficiently, without disrupting the normal function of the…
Preparations are underway at the European Medicines Agency together with European Member States and the European Commission, for the introduction of the new pharmacovigilance legislation in July this year. The new legislation will represent the biggest…
A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has devised a new method for making complex molecules. The reaction they have come up with should enable chemists to synthesize new varieties of a whole subclass of organic compo…
Novartis Consumer Health announced earlier today a recall on certain OTC medicines that were badly packaged and might have broken or chipped pills, as well as incorrect product mixed into bottles of pills. Rather worrying for consumers with risks of po…
Complaints of chipped and broken pills as well as inconsistent packaging have promoted Novartis Consumer Health Inc. (NCH) to recall certain lots of its products. Whilst there have been no reports of adverse effects to patients so far, Novartis has als…
In a move aimed at bolstering current systems for assessing and monitoring drug safety, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have created a new method that combines multiple forms of widely available data to predict adverse drug reactions. Unlike …
