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Pfizer planning yet another plant expansion

In yet another expansion of its manufacturing operations, Pfizer ($PFE) plans to lay out nearly $150 million to build a sterile manufacturing facility and warehouse at its site near Kalamazoo, MI. It is the third manufacturing project the drug...

WuXi Biologics completes construction of Asia’s largest perfusion biologics manufacturing facility using disposable bioreactors

WuXi Biologics, a leading open-access R&D capability and technology platform company dedicated to biologics and a WuXi AppTec company, announced today the opening of a new commercial-scale cGMP biologics perfusion manufacturing facility in Wuxi city, China. ...

Top 9 Things You Must Know About Naproxen

How often do you need pain relief? If you suffer from low back pain, an aching knee, strained muscles, arthritis, throbbing headaches, or any other myriad of painful conditions, you are not alone. According to the Institute of Medicine,...

Tramadol – Top 8 Things You Need to Know

Tramadol is a centrally-acting, oral narcotic-like analgesic and is approved for the treatment of moderate to moderately severe pain in adults. The extended-release form of tramadol is for around-the-clock treatment of pain and not for use on an as-needed...

DEA’s 10th National Drug Take-Back Day Set For September 26th

DEA began hosting National Prescription Drug Take-Back events in 2010. At the previous nine Take-Back Day events, 4,823,251 pounds (2,411 tons) of unwanted, unneeded or expired medications were surrendered for safe and proper disposal. The disposal service is free...

Imprint Codes for Oral Medications

What are Imprint Codes? All approved prescription and over-the-counter solid, oral dosage form medications in the U.S. are required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have a unique imprint. This also applies to biological drug products and homeopathic...

Antibiotics and Birth Control Pill Interactions: Fact or Fallacy?

Are you concerned when you receive an antibiotic prescription but you also take oral contraceptives? For many years, women were counseled that their birth control pill might become less effective if they also took a course of antibiotic. The...

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