The quiet end of Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Archive — July 2024
Page 5 of 5 of this archive, newest first.
Independent analysis puts a ERP cagrilintide lot at 95.3%, against 91.4% on the certificate
The result is unremarkable. What the report states alongside it is not.
ERP names the synthesis and fill sites behind its catalogue
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Seasonal use, holiday use, and the honest state of the evidence
The vocabulary is borrowed, the rationale is usually mechanistic, and the outcome data does not exist.
Why people actually stop, in the order they actually stop
A supply interruption is a discontinuation with no notice, no taper and no plan. That is a distinct clinical situation.
Benzyl alcohol is a preservative, not a sterilising agent
At low concentrations a measurable fraction of peptide can adsorb to glass and plastic surfaces, and the loss is largest exactly where it is least expected.
The 30-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Saudi Arabia
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
From the floor in Shanghai: 12 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
VendorInvestigate result on a Shenzhen dulaglutide lot lands 1.9 points above the supplier’s stated figure
The supplier confirmed the determination and supplied the method behind its own figure inside a week.
What a 41% rise in coupling-reagent prices does to a 5 mg vial
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.