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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ (Almost) Live from Austin!

President Donald Trump's proposed rule that would make it more difficult for immigrants to gain permanent status if they use government aid programs could have a major impact in Texas, with its large immigrant population.

28 Sep 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Health on the hill

As the start of the fiscal year draws near — along with pivotal midterm elections — Congress is picking up its pace on legislation. This week alone the Senate passed a comprehensive bill aimed at curbing the opioid epidemic and a nearly final bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services.

20 Sep 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ A detour on a smoking off-ramp

The Food and Drug Administration declared Wednesday that vaping among teenagers has reached "an epidemic proportion." The agency told ﬁve major e-cigarette manufacturers that they had 60 days to find ways to keep their products away from minors.

14 Sep 2018

Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ Health policy goes to court

A federal judge in Texas seemed sympathetic to the argument by GOP state officials that the Affordable Care Act soon will no longer be constitutional since Congress eliminated the penalty for not having insurance. The case was filed by 18 state attorneys general and two governors.

6 Sep 2018

Illicit drug supply at record heights

According to a 2018 World Drug report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) this week (26th June 2018) the supply of illicit drugs such as cocaine, opium and heroin have reached record heights.

28 Jun 2018

Distek, Inc. launches new product that extends the capabilities of the symphony 7100

Distek, Inc. announced today the release of their small volume conversion kit for the symphony 7100 bathless dissolution tester,

20 Jun 2018

Military and First Responder Applications of Raman Spectroscopy

Keith Carron talks about new Mira DS handheld Raman Analyzer, which provides a new level of safety and assurance when identifying unknown substances!

From Metrohm USA Inc. 27 Apr 2018

Enclosed point-of-use filter enhances quality of API for kidney dialysis

Amazon Filters reports a leading pharmaceutical company is using SupaPore PPG pleated depth filter cartridges to enable them to achieve a safe, enclosed point-of-use filter on their nitrogen gas distribution line used in the production of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for kidney dialysis treatments.

From Amazon Filters Ltd. 29 Mar 2018

Study confirms capabilities of SP Scientific’s new LyoCapsule Freeze Dryer

SP Scientific announces publication of an independent study evaluating their LyoCapsule Freeze Dryer for pharmaceutical product formulation and process development.

28 Nov 2017

Amazon Filters introduces corrosion-resistant filter housings for API manufacturing

Amazon Filters is a leading manufacturer of bespoke filter housings and high-performance filter media used in the manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients - vital building blocks for producing final pharmaceutical products.

28 Sep 2017

Pharmaceutical compound from leaves of coralberry may help combat asthma

The coralberry could offer new hope for asthmatics: researchers at the University of Bonn have extracted a new kind of active pharmaceutical ingredient from its leaves to combat this widespread respiratory disease. In mice, it almost completely inhibits the characteristic contraction of the airways.

14 Sep 2017

Optical Microscopy Resolution Revolution

I will talk about the simple but fundamental idea that allowed breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy as well as about MINFLUX nanoscopy, the latest development in the field that for the first time provides true molecular resolution with visible light and standard objective lenses.

From Pittcon 12 Sep 2017

Avantor opens new state-of-the-art Innovation Center in Bridgewater, New Jersey

Avantor, a global supplier of ultra-high-purity materials for customers across the life sciences and advanced technologies sectors, has opened a new research center in Bridgewater, New Jersey (USA) to help biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical customers with a full range of upstream and downstream processes, from gene to protein expression through final formulation and drug delivery.

20 Jul 2017

VoxelCloud raises $8M for expanding scope of AI-based medical image analysis services

VoxelCloud, a startup focusing on medical artificial intelligence, has raised $8M in series A financing led by Sequoia Capital. The startup utilizes artificial intelligence and cloud-computing technologies to provide automated medical image analysis and clinical decision support for medical practitioners.

17 Jul 2017

Uniqsis FlowSyn continuous flow reactor helps simplify scale-up of API batch processes

A leading Contract Research and Development Organisation – Arcinova has invested in a Uniqsis FlowSyn™ continuous flow reactor enabling them to develop and simplify the scale-up of a challenging API batch process.

19 Jun 2017

METTLER TOLEDO’s weighing and dosing solutions enable contract R&D lab to meet customers’ requirements

As pharmaceutical companies are held to increasingly aggressive product innovation targets, they rely on contracted partners to help with process innovation in drug formulation and manufacturing.

From Mettler-Toledo International Inc. 27 Apr 2017

Case studies for the role of in-process particle measurement to complement traditional API dissolution studies

Quantifying tablet disintegration profiles in situ and in real time enables scientists to reliably understand the breakage and dispersion mechanisms that govern API release rates. This essential process knowledge can support the prediction of in vivo drug release profiles during formulation development, and help identify the root cause of inconsistencies during release testing.

From Mettler-Toledo International Inc. 14 Mar 2017