Schreiner MediPharm, working in conjunction with the Dutch technology firm Experts in Communications & Connectivity Technology (ECCT), has developed a smart blister pack for a global pharmaceutical company. The pack has been developed for ...
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Looking at the great growth potential of Taiwan's bio-technology industry, Henri Lenferink, the mayor of Leiden, a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, led a delegation to Taiwan earlier, discussing cooperation ...
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German pharma packaging company August Faller has developed new combination product for package inserts. Designed for a major pharmaceutical company, the new product is said to combine a package leaflet with a patient alert card in a ...
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US-based agricultural company Monsanto has secured an approval from its shareholders to merge its business with a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical company Bayer for $66bn. As per the terms of the merger deal, the shareowners will be ...
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Pharmaceutical company Merck is planning to build new pharmaceutical packaging facility in Darmstadt, Germany with an investment of more than €50m ($55.7m). The German firm said it intends to complement its pharmaceutical production ...
India based firm Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has introduced a new range of packaging for its syrup bottles and blister in order to make them patient-friendly. The company, in partnership with California-based design and consulting firm ...
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Irish food ingredients company Kerry Group has acquired three U-based companies Red Arrow Products, Island Oasis and Biothera Inc’s Wellmune for $735m, a move that will usher the company’s growth in nutritional solutions market. ...
Sales will continue to grow as major companies roll out new products with long-lasting flavors in a highly competitive market Wallace Chung looked as if he had just stepped off a movie set. Dressed in an electric blue jacket with matching ...
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Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen has partnered with the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees to fight skin cancer as the teams official sunscreen. This winter, the Blue Lizard mascot trekked across frozen Chicago and slushy Manhattan napping ...
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German industrial specialty glass products manufacturer Schott is set to launch adaptiQ ready-to-use pharmaceutical vials to streamline syringe production. The adaptiQ system full-scale production is being advanced at the company's US ...
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Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
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The FDA won’t let 23andMe sell its Personal Genomic Service tests to consumers in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped the company from selling its customers’ anonymous information to other companies for research. ...
Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
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Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on December 11, 2014 2014 has turned out to be a pretty decent year for the world’s 40 largest medical device companies: Only six of them have seen their stock prices decline, and ...
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US-based Unique Pizza and Subs (UPZS) has signed an agreement to distribute its healthy frozen pizzas in Asia. The company has signed the deal with Larasan Pharmaceutical, a Florida-based nature-based pharmaceutical company that produces ...
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