You may or may not be surprised to learn that Lipitor, a prescription medication for lowering bad cholesterol and manufactured by drug giant Pfizer, is the top-selling prescription drug of all time according to recent reports, which indicate the medication has brought in $148.7 billion in sales over the drug’s 21 years since it was approved in 1996. What other …
Recently the DEA has issued warnings regarding counterfeit pills, particularly those used in pain management. A CNN report revealed that pill presses, used in producing counterfeit pills that often contain the deadly drug fentanyl, are reaching our country’s border in record numbers. In fact, customs agents claim the rate at which they are seizing the presses is 19 times higher …
U.S. President, Donald Trump, recently nominated Scott Gottlieb, a doctor, for the position of FDA commissioner, a nomination that most are happy about. According to news reports Gottlieb has a close relationship with the pharma industry as well as ties to Wall Street. Gottlieb is no stranger to the FDA either, having served under President George W. Bush as deputy …
In January of 2016, gene-sequencing giant Illumina created Grail, a startup focused on raising money to develop a blood test that screens for cancer and works proactively. Recent pharma news reports say the startup has reached an amount greater than $900 million, and is pulling in some of the biggest players in the tech, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries. Some of …
Nancy Warner, CEO at Assurpack LLC with more than 30 years of packaging experience and expertise in child resistant packaging, recently began a packaging firm dedicated to providing cannabis-infused product manufacturers with packaging solutions. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry after attending Michigan State, where she earned a B.S. degree in Package Engineering, Warner became interested in packaging solutions for …