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Building Pharma Quality: From The Top-Floor To The Shop-Floor

Vikas Bhadoria, Senior Partner and Vivek Arora,Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, emphasise on the need to build a strong quality culture, which will lead to superior performance and can build a company’s reputation to world-class levels

Connecting Diabetes Care To The Internet Of Things

New connected health technologies can boost medication adherence with smartphone apps and gamification. Heino Lennartz, Vice President and General Manager Global Pharma, West Pharmaceutical Services reveals more in an interaction with Viveka Roychowdhury

Bosch Packaging Technology Displays Industry 4.0 Solutions At Internetpack 2017

BOSCH PACKAGING Technology recently displayed how industry 4.0 solutions provide higher efficiency in modern manufacturing at interpack 2017. For instance, efficient and correct format changes with all format parts reliably installed in the right position, are a prerequisite for low downtime. In the future, machine operators will receive valuable support thanks to the Format Part Management based on RFID technology. The format parts are identified through an RFID tag. Via the format part ID, operators receive relevant information about the format change. This not only reduces changeover times, it also prevents potential mistakes.

An Advancing Sphere

Rising levels of COPD, including asthma are driving a lot of innovations in inhalers with an aim to improve the overall effective management of these diseases

iPHEX 2018 Held In New Delhi

CDSCO announces one year extension of WHO-GMP certifications.

Never Too Early For QbD

Excipients make up more than 90 per cent of each pill or tablet we consume but have not been a major focus of regulators in the past. With a significant number of drug recalls traced to inconsistent quality of excipients and faulty product design, the Quality by Design approach must be implemented as early as possible in the drug development lifecycle. Recent regulations and initiatives have attempted to modernise this segment of the pharma industry.

Compliance Guide To 21 CFR Part 11

The execution of 21 CFR Part 11 might look costly as well as might require a lot of work, but this has definitely standardised the process for electronic records.An insight by Pooja Patil, Corporate Communications, B&R Industrial Automation.

Export Excellence Awarded At Pharma CXO Summit 2017

The maiden Express Pharma Export Excellence Awards recognise and honour the resounding successes of Indian pharma companies and their untiring efforts in establishing India as a leading export destination

7Th DIA India Pharmacovigilance Conference Held In Mumbai

The two-day conference discussed the latest trends and developments in pharmacovigilance, drug safety and medical affairs and the impact of innovations like artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and real-world evidence on driving better safety outcomes

IVF Tied To Slight Increased Risk Of Rare Childhood Cancers

Kids conceived using IVF were 28 per cent more likely than other children to be diagnosed with embryonal tumours

Special Doors For Clean Rooms

GANDHI AUTOMATIONS offers a wide range of rapid roll high speed doors suitable for use in food processing, healthcare, leisure, pharmaceutical and research environments.

Appointments

Sanjay Murdeshwar of AstraZeneca chosen by Novartis to lead its India business

Netmed.com's expansion will ensure faster delivery and efficient order management

Less than five-year-old, e-pharmacy Netmed.co has already established its presence in almost every household and is continuously striving to grow bigger. The company is looking forward to operating within a conducive legal framework and having an organic as well an inorganic growth. Pradeep Dadha, Founder and CEO, Netmeds.com talks about the company’s business strategies and expansion plans with Usha Sharma

‘Our goal is to attain leadership in Indian veterinary vaccine segment'

Veterinary vaccine manufacturer Biovet plans to invest Rs 200 crore for further expansion and aims to capture 50 per cent market share in the next two years.Dr Panduranga Rao Pavuluri, Vice President Production, Biovet, talks about the company’s strategy to acheive this goal and its areas of focus in an exclusive interaction with Usha Sharma

Lupin Foundation Organises Dr Desh Bandhu Gupta Memorial Lecture In New Delhi

The event hosted over 200 dignitaries

Curtain Raiser Of 71st IPC Concludes In Chennai

AIDCOC is hosting the congress, institutes Dr Neha Shoree award for Best women Drugs Control Officer at national level

OPTIMA Pharma Inaugurates CSPE Center

The new building, with an area of 4,600 square metres, creates the space needed for large-scale complete pharmaceutical systems

Pharma Packaging An Evolving Sphere

Pharma companies are looking at newer methods and approaches to minimise packaging costs while addressing important goals like enhancing patient compliance

Gandhi Automations Bags Innovation Award At All India Cold Chain Seminar 2019

The company has a vision to help cold storage owners achieve maximum efficiency,energy savings, cost savings,faster loading and unloading time to increase their productivity

IPE 2019 Held In New Delhi

The expo provided eminent stakeholders in pharma industry a chance to generate new business leads and to maximise revenue potential

Self-Repairing PVC Door For Sterile Environments Clean Rooms

AN INCREASING number of defined standards require reliable special doors for clean room application, for example in the pharmaceutical, medicine, biotechnology, aeronautical, electronics, automotive and process engineering areas.

Mai Scheme Incentivising Exports In A New Avatar

The industry is very positive about the revisions introduced to MAI Scheme expects accelerated export growth as a result

B&R Hosts 5th Edition Of Innovation Day On Differentiation Through Digitisation

Thought leader from different industries and technology experts from B&R deliberated on various next generation automation concepts enabling Indian manufacturers to lay the foundation for digitalisation

Generic-generic Medicines Critical To Achieve The Vision Of Affordable Healthcare For All

In line with the government’s vision of affordable and accessible healthcare for all, it would be worthwhile for public and private players to come together and work on a roadmap to resolve some of these teething issues. Siddharth Gadia and Girish Agarwal, Founders, Generico, give an insight

The Most Important Thing Is What The Customer Needs

Presenting Japanese technology at Indian cost is the main aim of the joint venture between Tokyo-based Freund Corporation and Mumbai-based Parle Global Technologies. Iwao Fusejima, President & CEO, Freund Corporation and Mahendra Mehta, Managing Director, Parle Global Technologies spoke to Viveka Roychowdhury on the sidelines of the launch of the first product from this JV

Genetic Study Reveals Possible New Routes To Treating Osteoarthritis

Largest ever genetic study of osteoarthritis uncovered 52 new genetic changes linked to the disease

Lanxess Expands Range Of Membranes For Reverse Osmosis

SPECIALTY CHEMICALS company LANXESS is expanding its range of membrane elements for reverse osmosis (RO).

Disruptive Tech To Drive M&As In Healthcare Space

In 2019, healthcare firms need to focus on portfolio, informs Mahesh Singhi, Founder & MD, Singhi Advisors optimisation

India Pharma INC's Tryst With Modi Sarkar

Pharma sector got overlooked in the recently announced interim budget though there were some radical announcements for other sectors. The industry continues to await its due. Express Pharma garners a few reactions to the interim budget and looks at Modi government's significant offerings for the sector in the last five years

Quality: From Compliance To Culture

As custodians to ensure patient safety, quality teams in pharma firms must have a mechanism not only to comply but to consistently comply, says Rashida Najmi, Senior Vice President, Global Quality, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance and Patents, Piramal Enterprises. For this to happen, compliance to quality needs to become part of the culture of a company