Biosimilars: should they have a ‘similar’ system to the originator?
The safety of any medicine such as biosimilar is as dependent as much on the system that supports it as the biological properties of the medicine itself. Part of this system rests as proprietary...
High purity and excellent chemical resistance for syringes
In the past decade, Cyclo Olefin Polymer (COP) and Cyclo Olefin Copolymer (COC) based syringes, cartridges, and vials have attracted ever increasing attention from the pharma industry as a valid transparent plastic alternative to...
Pre-filled Syringe Technology and Injection Devices
The product development process for pre-filled syringes and injection devices is a little different from that of a ‘traditional’ pharmaceutical. There are essentially five steps (figure 1), and for many, the commencement of clinical...
Contributing to the success of injectable drugs
In an increasingly competitive landscape, pharma companies need to focus on their core competence of drug development. Hence, device manufacturers need to support their customers with a range of services beyond the development and...
Safe’n’Sound®, a customizable platform of add-on passive safety devices for prefilled syringes
In the parenteral industry, Needlestick injuries remain a global concern with over 3 million exposures to blood occurring every year according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Sharps injuries result in not only health issues...
Auto Injectors: Customer needs and future trends
Pharmaceutical industry might well be one of the most exacting industries on the market. In order to satisfy a very broad range of stakeholders, including patients, prescribers, payers, patient-care providers and other healthcare professionals,...
Human factors and prefilled syringes
Human factors is now firmly established at the heart of medical device development, and that includes prefilled syringes. Regulators, and in particular the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recently published guidance on...
Market place becoming more competitive
Popular as this technology is, there are others vying for a niche in the same markets with equal claims on convenience and popularity with patients and clinicians alike.
In 2011/12 Garcia-Diaz et al studied patient...
Advances in syringe technologies open up new opportunities
Interest in the convenience and safety of pre-filled syringes is growing to the extent that some commentators are suggesting they will largely replace the traditional syringe for standard medical care.
The technology has been around...
The Goldilocks Effect
Advances in the delivery of precision medicine trials in the UK have sparked interest in the commercial world.
The concept of precision medicine is not new, but generating the scientific evidence to drive the concept...
Bacteria research offers encouragement
Other fields of research are looking at an interesting and long-suggested proposition that the bacteria which inhabit human digestive systems, live on our skin and even in our mouths have an impact on the...
companies bring forward new treatments
Despite mixed results for the therapy, drug companies are continuing to seek approval for new drugs in this field.
In November 2015 Samsung Bioepis announced that the European Medicines Agency’s committee for medicinal products in...
Major steps being taken in battle against arthritis
Researchers from many disciplines are working together to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis patients and potentially save the NHS millions of pounds on ineffective drugs.
Doctors can waste a long time prescribing different therapies...
Remarkable breakthroughs that herald the age of bionics
He was one of the television hits of the 1970s, the Six Million Dollar Man with his super-enhanced vision and reconstructed bionic limbs that allowed him to run at incredible speeds and jump huge...
Next fifteen years could see the biggest breakthrough of all
Many of those involved in the bionics industry say that, impressive as the current breakthroughs are, much remains to be achieved and some of that will rely on the development of new technologies and...
Exciting times as developers reveal breakthroughs
Everywhere you look, there is cause for optimism with a number of companies developing devices designed to make life easier both for those who have lost limbs and those who have lost senses such...