What is Cold Chain and Why Does it Matter for My Products?

Drugs, like any other molecule, are affected by exposure to temperature extremes. Hot and cold can both be the enemy of your product’s quality. How much of a risk is this in the ordinary course of events? Let’s think about how a product moves through the supply chain....

How to ask the FDA questions

In recent blog posts we have analyzed recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance topics regarding formal meetings with the FDA and best practices for communicating with FDA during drug development. One topic which we have not addressed is just how to ask...

The Strange Story of How the Orphan Drug Act Happened

For a long time, people spoke about the problems involved with delivering drugs to people with rare diseases. Development costs were high and regulatory hurdles even higher. Costs were not economically justified by the limited returns expected from a medicine to treat...