What changed at QST in July, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Archive — July 2024
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Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
From the floor in Nantong: 24 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Why people actually stop, in the order they actually stop
Real-world persistence figures, with their definitions stated, because the definitions are doing most of the work.
Glass, elastomer, aluminium: a three-material argument about one closure
Particulate matter is the oldest quality attribute in injectable manufacture and the one a private buyer is best placed to assess without instrumentation.
Independent analysis puts a QYB mazdutide lot at 95.1%, against 91.4% on the certificate
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
WWB declines, for the 17th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The 12-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Ireland
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Inspectors cite the online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply over sterility assurance
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
Gallstones during rapid weight loss: drug, or weight loss?
Pancreatitis is rare, was adjudicated in the outcome programmes, and did not show the imbalance early case reports suggested.
Randomised withdrawal is the cleanest design in this field and the least discussed
The regain trajectories, arm by arm, with the estimands named.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
STEP 3 extension data: what happens after the trial stops
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
Brazil pharmacy body issues counselling standards for dulaglutide initiation
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
The advice is mostly reasonable. The certainty is not earned.
Almost every practical recommendation in circulation was established in a population that does not resemble the people now following it.
Why people actually stop, in the order they actually stop
A supply interruption is a discontinuation with no notice, no taper and no plan. That is a distinct clinical situation.
From vial to bench: what is recorded and what is assumed
The condition on arrival is recorded by some services and not others, and it is one of the more informative lines in a report.
A shortage listing ends. 16 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Why summer is a documented quality problem in this trade
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
From the floor in Nantong: 7 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
From vial to bench: what is recorded and what is assumed
What a laboratory can and cannot know about the provenance, storage history and representativeness of what lands on its bench.
What the new Argentina guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
What changed at CPC in July, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Spain caps liraglutide prescribing to 23 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Pass, conform, comply: three words for three different claims
Statements of conformity are supposed to rest on a stated decision rule. Almost nothing in this trade states one.
Reading the dulaglutide titration schedule as a regulatory artefact
The published ladder exists because a protocol needed a single number. Practice has never followed it exactly, and the regulatory file never assumed it would.
A supplier suspends shipping to Singapore after 24 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
SURMOUNT-3 misses on a secondary endpoint the coverage has not mentioned
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
France declines to reimburse tirzepatide outside a specialist service
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine closes after 11 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Check the vial, not the box
The interval between manufacture and analysis is the most under-read figure on the page, and the one most likely to matter by the time a vial is opened.
The intramuscular injection nobody intended
The insulin injection-technique literature is large, well conducted and directly transferable on questions of depth and tissue. We say where it stops transferring.
The 9-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Spain
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
From the floor in Wuhan: 6 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The convention nobody explains before handing over the vial
Dead space in the needle hub is a real and calculable loss, and it matters more at small volumes than anybody expects.
How a claim degrades between the bench and the listing
The Journal does not treat a badge as evidence and states so wherever it reports one.
A shortage listing ends. 23 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.