Perceptive Informatics’ TrialWorks software has been upgraded to ease the uploading of information onto the ClinicalTrials.gov website.
Contract research organisation PPD will have to forego a scheduled $25m payment from Takeda of Japan in the fourth quarter after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held up approval of a product for diabetes.
The relentless commoditisation of glycerine ingredients prompted Dow Chemicals to all but exit the sector a few years back, but now the company says it is seeing a resurgence for its flagship synthetic glycerine brand.
Wyeth Medica, an Irish subsidiary of US drugmaker Wyeth, plans to cut 250 jobs at its manufacturing plant in Newbridge, County Kildare, according to media reports.