The relabeller trading as Vantris Bio closes after 24 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
The archive — 2024
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What changed at QSC in December, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Australia caps liraglutide prescribing to 10 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
The specification sheet says 500,000. The report says conforms.
Every instrument specification quoted in an advertisement is a best case obtained on a calibration mixture, not on a submitted vial.
Reading a certificate for what it does not say
The most consequential features of most certificates in this market are the tests that do not appear on them at all.
Calder Vale Peptides of Skipton enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
Independent analysis puts a SGN survodutide lot at 97.0%, against 92.8% on the certificate
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
KP declines, for the 13th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
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.
The badge economy, and what it is actually certifying
What a verification mark would have to carry to be checkable: a date, a lot, a method, a submitter and a link to the report.
From the floor in Xi'an: 9 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Norway caps liraglutide prescribing to 9 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
SURMOUNT-OSA 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.
Poland pharmacy body issues counselling standards for liraglutide initiation
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
Freezing a reconstituted vial: the ice-water interface problem
An in-use period is established by a dedicated study on a specific formulation in a specific container at a specific concentration. Borrowing one from a marketed product is…
Rapid weight loss moves eight analytes for reasons that have nothing to do with the drug
Three different explanations for the same abnormal number, and how to tell them apart.
Argentina declines to reimburse exenatide outside a specialist service
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Inspectors cite Calder Vale Peptides of Skipton over sterility assurance
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
What the new the United Arab Emirates guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
The 9-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Singapore
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Oxidation, and the peroxide that came in with the surfactant
An isoaspartate rearrangement changes the molecule and not the mass. A method that confirms identity by molecular weight alone will report it as the parent compound.
Benzyl alcohol is a preservative, not a sterilising agent
We set out what is known, what is inferred and what is simply assumed about the fortnight after a vial is opened.
Least significant change: the number your body-composition printout omits
The compartment called lean mass contains water, glycogen, viscera and skin. Only some of it is the tissue anybody is worried about.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
A supplier suspends shipping to New Zealand after 21 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.
Antiemetics, laxatives and the thin literature underneath them
Constipation is the most tractable of the effects and the most consistently under-managed.
Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine closes after 11 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
What the new South Africa guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
SURPASS-2 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.