Nearly 100 medicines for sale in the U.S. have now received pediatric labeling reversing a period when not enough studies were being done in this population. This welcome development follows recent legislation to provide incentives for drug makers who focus on the pediatric segment.
The Case for Pediatric Formulations: The rights of children are coming to the forefront and altering the way clinicians, politicians and policy-makers view this vulnerable segment of population.
By Dr. Jon Bruss, MD, MSPH, FAAP

Knowing their products and customers well is helping many suppilers offer value-added formuation development services.
By Sangita Viswanathan

The pairing of the ESI/oa-TOF/MS and ion trap ESI/MS/MRM solves a number of vexing problems encountered in pharmaceutical formulation analysis.
By Edgar Nagele and Ralf Moritz

Degradation Analysis: From API Synthesis to Commercial Product
By Dr. Margaret McClure, Brian Lane and Joe Ludwig

On The Docket
- Access to Information for QA/RA Professionals: Services used by attorneys may also be useful to pharmaceutical quality and regulatory professionals.
By Edward J. Johnson

Drug Delivery
- Evolution of Transdermal Drug Delivery: Recent progress in active transdermal drug delivery technologies has helped miniature, powerful devices to generate required clinical responses.
By Drs S.A. Jones and M.B. Brown

Foreign Object Detection
- Magnetic Separation: How to select the best metal detector?
By Bill Dudenhoefer

GMP Notebook
- Control of Components - A Look to the Past: Take a minute to lok back and understand current practices and procedures.
By Dr. Efrem H. Zaret

PAT Standards
- Standards Processes at ASTM: ASTM's International Committee EFF defines standards development for pharaceutical manufacturing.
By Pat Picariello and Carolyn Sheahan

Training
- Making the Compliance and Procedural Training Touchdown: Companies have to be good at blocking and tackling to achieve winning compliance.
By Mark Starke

- Trials and Tribulations behind Training Initiatives: Assess, align, deploy, measure and reinforce-five steps to cultivating talent and skills in your organization
By Carol Ann Weiss & Suzanne Rabauer

Lab Analysis: Sample Prep
- Sample Preparation for Water Activity Analysis: It is important to understand the effects of sample preparation on water activity.
By Dr. Anthony Fontana

- Laboratory Water Challenges: Selection, installation, qualitfication and maintenance of a water purification system are key factors that present a unique challenge.
By Sean Murphy, Morgan Norris and Bruno Rossi

Electronic Records Management
- Control or be Controlled:The time is now to take a hard, careful look at your record retention policy.
By Tamar M. June

- After GMP and GLP, it's time for Good Clinical Practices: Increased clinical research data complexity and volume have resulted in greater need for electronic records management.
By Mark S. Ferrero

RFID
- An End-to-End Approach: RFID technologies can improve process quality and provide comprehensive protection against counterfeiting
By Wolf Bielas