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Researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule containers called voxels that could potentially deliver precise microdoses or even nanodoses of drugs.

Researchers Create Microstructures for Drug Delivery

Also, FDA removes OAI status for Watson's Florida facility, executive management changes as GSK, more...

Company and People Notes: Actavis Totowa Recalls "Digitek," Cynthia Schwalm Named President of Eisai Inc., More

Michelle Hoffman, editorial director of Pharmaceutical Technology.

Scientists are giving up on a preventive vaccine for AIDS, but there are lessons to be learned.

Requiem for a Vaccine

Getting IT, engineering, and manufacturing on the same page requires a delicate balance.

Converging InformationTechnology & Automation Teams

Enterprise process control and management (EPCAM) is a new strategy for healthcare manufacturers based on recent process-control breakthroughs in the electronics industry.

EPCAM: A Strategy to Enable Manufacturing-Process Control Transformation

ISA 100.11a and WirelessHART both seek to become the global standard for industrial wireless automation.

Unplugged: Developing Standards for Wireless Automation

Editors' Picks of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Innovations

In the Spotlight May 2008

Brief pharmaceutical news items for May 2008.

Pharma Capsules

The adoption of computers into every aspect of the pharmaceutical industry has been enormous. Some estimates would put productivity and efficiency gains across the pharmaceutical industry at 2–3 times what they were previously. However, they are only just beginning to have an effect in the areas of training and document management, which have traditionally been managed by people and paper systems. With increasingly strict regulations and the growing complexity of processes and training requirements, there are even greater efficiency gains, as well as cost savings, to be achieved by adopting electronic document management systems (eDMS), learning management systems (LMS) and systems for the electronic signing of documents.

Managing the future

Also, Genzyme to build R&D center in Beijing, Noven Pharmaceuticals appoints Peter C. Brandt president and CEO, more...

Data and Artificial Intelligence