From the floor in Nantong: 7 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The archive — 2024
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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.
The quiet end of Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Independent analysis puts a ERP cagrilintide lot at 95.3%, against 91.4% on the certificate
The result is unremarkable. What the report omits is not.
ERP declines, for the 10th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Seasonal use, holiday use, and the honest state of the evidence
The vocabulary is borrowed, the rationale is usually mechanistic, and the outcome data does not exist.
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.
Benzyl alcohol is a preservative, not a sterilising agent
At low concentrations a measurable fraction of peptide can adsorb to glass and plastic surfaces, and the loss is largest exactly where it is least expected.
The 30-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Saudi Arabia
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
From the floor in Shanghai: 12 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
VendorInvestigate result on a Shenzhen dulaglutide lot lands 1.9 points below the supplier’s figure
The supplier has not disputed the finding. It has not explained the gap either.
What a 41% rise in coupling-reagent prices does to a 5 mg vial
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.