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Child-resistant packaging for medical and recreational cannabis

Denali: Kinder-Safe Child-Resistant Compliant Packaging for the Cannabis Industry

The Kinder-Safe systems include zippers, boxes, and an official badge to allow consumers to know the product is secured in child-resistant packaging.

Xcelerate optimizes the active packaging development process through end-to-end insight and expedites speed-to-market.

Aptar CSP: Xcelerate Development Services to Fast-Track Active Packaging Systems

From stability challenge to commercial launch, Xcelerate expedites the packaging process for medicines sensitive to moisture, oxygen, and volatile compounds.

TriFlex “to promote joint health,” comes as functional beverage, functional food in the form of soft chews, and caplets. Cartons, rigid containers with tamper-evident seals, and flexible pouches offer the consumer a variety of packaging and delivery systems. PMMI’s research predicts the move from rigid containers to flexible pouches, but there are still plenty of vitamin bottles on the shelf at GNC.

E-Commerce and Personalization Drive Packaging Changes in Nutraceuticals

E-Commerce is necessitating a movement away from rigid plastic and glass containers, while personalized supplement packs gain steam.

Global Packaging Research

Overall value of packaging in Asia will hit $377.5 billion in 2019. It will be the fastest growing major world region to 2024 reaching $458.2 billion in that year, according to a new study from Smithers

Emilie Peltre, Senior Principal Packaging Engineer for Abbott opens the Abbott Connected Health Challenge at the AIPIA World Congress.

Live from AIPIA: Abbott Connected Health Challenge

Thirteen smart packaging technology providers pitch their solutions to Abbott to help them create connected packaging that links its consumers to services.

ACGcaps HA have heightened suitability for hygroscopic and moisture-sensitive ingredients

ACG Capsules: ACGcaps HA Meet Global Cultural Requirements and Are Vegan Friendly

The company’s plant-based, GMO-free HPMC capsules are designed for encapsulation and high-speed production environments.

Partnership to Manufacture the Emergency-use ‘Maverick’ Auto-injector

Partnership to Manufacture the Emergency-use ‘Maverick’ Auto-injector

The glass cartridge-based auto-injector possesses a needle-retraction safety feature and is mechanically robust.

60% of people globally over the age of 50 have purchased products online

E-Com Expanding Convenience, Compliance and Customized Healthcare Packaging for Seniors

The convenience of online ordering, delivery and personalized packaging has the added benefit of increasing senior compliance with medications.

Hulio wins PDA award for device innovation.

PDA’s First Drug Delivery Innovation Award Winners at 2019 Universe of Pre-Filled Syringes and Injection Devices Conference

One award winner includes a thinner needle to reduce injection pain, while a partnership resulted in a precise microliter dosing syringe.

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Competitive Drugs Demand Innovative Delivery Devices

Vial and syringe might be fine if you’re the only game in town. But as competition grows, so does the demand to make drug delivery easier and more convenient for patients. In many cases, your best bet is to partner for that innovation.

FDA Comments on Potential Device Shortages in the Face of ETO Facility Interruptions/Closures

FDA Comments on Potential Device Shortages in the Face of ETO Facility Interruptions/Closures

Acting Commissioner Sharpless: “…in addition to our shortage mitigation efforts, we have also been addressing the broader need for innovation and improvements to medical device sterilization techniques in general.”

Activ-Blister Packaging / Image: Aptar

FDA Approves Activ-Blister™ Packaging for HIV Drug

The FDA has approved AptarGroup’s packaging solution for oral solid dose HIV prevention medicine.

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FDA Finds Asbestos in Baby Powder, Recall Ensues

Johnson & Johnson recalled thousands bottles of their famous baby powder after the FDA found trace amounts of asbestos.

Metrics completes installation of ACG Engineering high sheer mixer.

CDMO Incorporates New High Shear Mixer

Precision granulator helps manufacturer transition from development to process validation and commercial production.

2-for-1 Prosthetic Control / Image: Johns Hopkins

Man Mind-Controls 2 Prosthetics at Once For the First Time

For the first time, researchers have proven that it’s possible to simultaneously control two separate prosthetic arms via brain-machine interface.

vincristine shortage / Image: Getty

U.S. Faces Shortage of Childhood Cancer Drug

Teva Pharmaceuticals stopped production of vincristine, which is used to treat multiple forms of childhood cancer.

Vision-Correcting Eye Drops / Image: Getty

Vision-Correcting Eye Drops Coming Soon

New eye drops proved to improve farsightedness in clinical trials, and will soon be brought to market.

CIPM China 2019: the Marchesini Group showcases the Integra 520, the perfect solution to pack blisters into cartons at high speeds

CIPM China 2019: the Marchesini Group showcases the Integra 520, the perfect solution to pack blisters into cartons at high speeds

Integra 520 combines a thermoformer and a cartoner for higher speeds and higher precision.

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Mayo Breast Cancer Vaccine Coming Soon(ish)

Mayo’s breast cancer vaccine is in the early phases of research, but could be widely available in as little as eight years.

Digital Network Platform to Further Transform the Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

TraceLink: Digital Network Platform to Further Transform the Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

The platform is designed to allow users to rapidly design and deploy network orchestration and analytics applications, enabling patient-centric orchestration across the end-to-end life sciences value chain.

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Yale Team Develops Immune Therapy for Cancer

Researchers at the prestigious university have developed a therapy that stimulates immune cells to attack tumors in mice.

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PrEP and PEP Go Prescription-Free in CA

California signed a bill that will make PrEP for HIV prevention available without a doctor’s prescription.