From the CEO

While Catalent’s acquisition is definitely about making drugs, it’s also very much about making money.

Given its positioning at each new year’s commencement, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference helps establish the tone with which the pharmaceutical industry is viewed.

GSI shortages result from how hospitals buy GSI drugs, and the underinvestment in manufacturing operations that follow.

Pharmaceuticals are entering a transition into a far more complex era of patient therapies, and patient segmentation.

Industry investments indicate increasing trust in the newest modalities, including mRNA approaches.

It has been a long wait, but for Alzheimer’s at least, this is the beginning of renewed hope.

A proposed database includes key information about critical drugs, such as the country of origin and quantity, so supply chain weaknesses can be identified.

The debate surrounding drug pricing changes rages on.

COVID-19 has raised the specter of pandemic planning and the question of what can be done now to prevent future disaster.

The engine that drives pharmaceuticals forward, its workforce, is now very low on fuel.

Direct-to-consumer drug advertising has developed as a cottage industry which has been used to increase prescriptions immensely.

That wave beginning to crash over PhRMA’s gunwales may well emanate from a startup mindset, rather than Big Pharma or government policy pundits.

The restraint to not target solely the major disease groups has provided good proportion and balance for our industry.

Cell and gene therapies is unequivocally viewed as the biggest opportunity in the bio/pharma space.

Science news can be just so weird, or weirdly useful, that everything else recedes as we ponder whether it is true and what consequences it might bring.

Next year's "FDA Voices" series will cover core topics FDA staff are prioritizing.

The 1VQ papers advocate for the idea that certain post-approval changes should be streamlined and expedited.

While the cost of certain medicines are alarmingly high, they can be considered a bargain measured against a lifetime of traditional costs.

How can we fix the quality manufacturing issues that come with product shortages?

Systemic inefficiencies in the pharmaceutical industry undermine problem-solving efforts.

AI could provide solutions to critical manufacturing inefficiencies.

Spring has returned, and with it comes INTERPHEX.

Advances in pharmaceutical neuroscience present an opportunity for pharmaceutical companies to stay ahead of the curve.

Reducing US dependency on overseas pharma manufacturing may prove critical in navigating supply chain disruptions.

Busy is good for business.