Singapore pharmacy body issues counselling standards for liraglutide initiation
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
Archive — July 2025
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The quiet end of Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Nigeria declines to reimburse dulaglutide outside a specialist service
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
A tested vial is evidence about a vial
A result on one vial generalises to a batch only if the vial was drawn in a way that makes it representative — and nobody records how it was drawn.
The out-of-range flag is a statistical convention with a printer attached
A flag is a probability statement about a population. It is not a statement about the person holding the printout.
From the floor in Wuxi: 4 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The 7-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Brazil
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
ERP declines, for the 21st time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Independent analysis puts a JEEP orforglipron lot at 95.5%, against 92.7% on the certificate
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
Is liraglutide better than mazdutide, or differently balanced?
What adding GIP activity does, on the current evidence, and what remains unresolved.
What twenty companies say about storage, and what they have measured
A stability programme needs a protocol, defined conditions, a stability-indicating method and time. Time is the ingredient no commercial testing service can sell.
The quiet end of the online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
A supplier suspends shipping to Turkey after 24 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
STEP 1 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.
PeptideMeter result on a Qingdao cagrilintide lot lands 1.4 points below the supplier’s figure
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
Antiemetics, laxatives and the thin literature underneath them
Constipation is the most tractable of the effects and the most consistently under-managed.
How to read the silence on a certificate you already hold
Our position is about documentation practice. It is not an allegation about anybody’s honesty, and we are explicit about the difference.
Retained gastric contents, and how a small finding became a large argument
A drug that delays gastric emptying complicates the assumption behind every fasting instruction in perioperative medicine. The professional bodies have moved twice on this…
Suzhou export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Xianning export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Independent analysis puts a HJ dulaglutide lot at 98.7%, against 96.2% on the certificate
The report states the gradient, the wavelength and the integration threshold, which is more than most.
The dose that got you here and the dose that keeps you here
Every withdrawal trial compared full dose against nothing. The clinically interesting comparison — full dose against a reduced one — has not been randomised.
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.
What the new Nigeria guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
From the floor in Chengdu: 20 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
South Korea health authority warns on falsified tirzepatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The certificate of analysis, line by line
The purity figure is the least informative line on a well-constructed certificate and the only line most buyers read.
The imaging substudy is an afterthought in the protocol and the centrepiece of the debate
The trials measured mass. Nobody measured whether the participants got weaker.
Hong Kong export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Ireland pharmacy body issues counselling standards for liraglutide initiation
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
The relabeller trading as Vantris Bio enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
PeptideMeter result on a Hong Kong mazdutide lot lands 2.6 points below the supplier’s figure
The result is unremarkable. What the report omits is not.
Escalating onto a rising curve
What the published pharmacokinetics permit, what the labels state, and where the two diverge.
Percentage of loss, absolute kilograms, and the sleight of hand between them
What was pre-specified, what was exploratory, and what was calculated afterwards by people who did not run the trial.
The quiet end of the online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
A shortage listing ends. 9 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Sweden health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The mechanism behind the mechanism
The receptor populations that produce satiety and the ones that produce nausea overlap substantially. That is why the ceiling of this drug class is where it is, and it is…
Why a dead-clean sterile filter can pass pyrogen straight through
Bacterial endotoxin is a heat-stable lipopolysaccharide from the outer membrane of Gram-negative organisms. It survives sterilisation, passes a sterilising filter, and is…
From the floor in Shanghai: 12 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.