Despite creating plastic waste, the disposables option is better for the environment.

The country is reeling from US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout. In appealing for support, Paulson stressed this was a crisis. This sense of urgency is reminiscent of the way millions of Americans without health insurance cope with medical problems—in the emergency room, because they have no access to routine and preventive care.

The complexity of Quality by Design leads naturally to questions of how much work it requires, how many companies have the resources to do it, and what the payoff is for anybody.

GMPs in Phase 1 is more important now than ever before.

Pushing frontiers in a maturing biotechnology industry.

A stronger FDA will benefit both the industry and the public. And it now looks like we are starting down a path to build up that strength.

Now is a good time for companies to know their suppliers well.

The cause of the heparin crisis is still unknown. We do know, however, that the FDA is severely underfunded.

In our increasingly global industry; foreign manufacturing inspections are more important than ever.