LC at CERAWeek 2013
CERAWeek 2013, one of the energy industry’s most important events, once again brought together many of the world's top leaders and delegates to discuss solutions to the new risks and challenges facing the energy industry. Presentations from over 300 speakers, including senior industry executives and government officials, were focused on ...
Tips to Multilingual Labeling for Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are increasingly multinational, involving up to ten study centers and several different countries. As a result, and to meet both local and international good manufacturing practices (GMP) regulations, bio- pharmaceutical products often must have multilingual labels. This can be daunting for companies conducting multinational trials or expanding into international ...
South Korea Promotes Biosimilars Market
The global biosimilars market has grown exponentially over the past few years primarily due to rising medical care costs and the high cost of developing and testing innovative drugs. Asia is fast becoming a center for biosimilars manufacturing, currently responsible for 34.1% of the world market share. With the expiration ...
India’s New Patient Compensation Plan Against Inadequate Care
In an effort to improve the nation's reputation for inadequate care and compensation of clinical trial victims, the Indian government recently laid out a structured new patient compensation plan. With this plan the government announced that there will be stricter enforcement of the new regulations such that violation will result ...
China Boosts Its Chinese Biotech Industry
China’s government recently revealed more information regarding their plans to expand the Chinese biotech industry. Chinese officials announced that with this plan they believe they can double the sector's contribution to the national GDP by 2015 and establish China’s biotech sector as a major industry by 2020 ...
Effects of New Drug Law in Clinical Trial Research in Russia
The clinical research sector in Russia has been growing exponentially over the last decade, largely as a result of increased outsourcing to emerging countries. To facilitate this growth, the Russian government has created several incentives for foreign companies including regulatory reforms ...
6 Tips for Patient Informed Consent Form Translation
As a language service provider that also specializes in the life sciences, we would like to share some tips from our years of experience working with CROs and bio- pharmaceutical companies that conduct international clinical trials. Below are six tips on how to best prepare for patient informed consent form translation ...
Friends Greeting Around the World
Greeting in China Unlike in western societies, the handshake was not introduced to China until the beginning of the last century and is still not a very common practice, and hugging is almost never seen. Traditionally, the acceptable greeting is to bow and cup the right hand over the left ...
India’s New Plan for the Biopharmaceutical Industry in 2020
The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, recently revealed the country's new science, technology and innovation policy at the 100th Indian Science Congress. The primary goal of this policy is to make India "one of the world's top five science powerhouses by 2020". Government and foreign investment, as well as ...
FDA Increases Approvals in 2012
As we start the new year, a look at the past year helps to shed light on the industry's future. One indicator is the number of new products that have successfully reached the market. With industry trends towards New Molecular Entities (NMEs) and Biologics, the rising number of new products ...