The cake is a record of the cycle that made it
Lyophilisation does not stop degradation. It slows every pathway by removing the solvent that most of them require, and the residue of solvent that remains sets the rate.
Archive — August 2024
Page 3 of 5 of this archive, newest first.
Qingdao export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
France pharmacy body issues counselling standards for tirzepatide initiation
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
The consolidator trading as Meridian Freight Partners enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Two-thirds back: the extension nobody expected to be the headline
What was withdrawn, from whom, after how long, and what was measured afterwards.
The 26-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Denmark
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
From the floor in Chengdu: 22 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Spain health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Bone density during rapid weight loss: what is known, which is less than you would hope
Density is a proxy for strength and an imperfect one, particularly when soft-tissue thickness over the measurement site is changing.
We split six vials four ways and posted them
The Journal submitted split samples from single lots to three assay services, under names unconnected to this publication, and published each method alongside each result.
The quiet end of the online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
A shortage listing ends. 5 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
STEP 4 extension data: what happens after the trial stops
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
Monitoring intervals, and the case against measuring too often
A panel that will not change a decision is a panel that generates work.
One vial, four weeks, and the data that does not exist
An in-use period is established by a dedicated study on a specific formulation in a specific container at a specific concentration. Borrowing one from a marketed product is…
Calder Vale Peptides of Skipton closes after 10 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Why summer is a documented quality problem in this trade
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
What changed at BCH in August, and what the company says prompted it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Argentina caps liraglutide prescribing to 5 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
A schedule that bends does not break
Nausea and gastric delay attenuate over weeks at an unchanged dose. That single physiological fact is the entire justification for holding.
The limits of mechanism: why receptor data will not tell you who responds
The mechanism is well described. The variance is not.
A shortage listing ends. 17 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
SURPASS-2 misses on a secondary endpoint the coverage has not mentioned
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
Canada health authority warns on falsified liraglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Accreditation, scope, and the question nobody asks PeptideMeter
Two signatures — one who performed the work, one who approved its release — are the ordinary regulated convention and are almost unknown here.
What the placebo arms of the withdrawal trials actually tell us
The evidence on stopping is better than the evidence on almost anything else in this field, because somebody deliberately randomised it.
The four testing services and the study none of them can run
Storage instructions in this market are close to uniform and almost never accompanied by the study that would justify them. Uniformity is a sign of convention, not of…
What changed at QST in August, and what the company says prompted it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
A shortage listing ends. 13 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Diminishing returns, quantified
Where the curve flattens, what flattens with it, and what does not.
Homopeptide names the synthesis and fill sites behind its catalogue
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The 31-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Italy
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
From the floor in Xianning: 23 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Mexico caps dulaglutide prescribing to 18 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
The glycated haemoglobin assay, and the eight conditions that break it
The alternatives with shorter windows, what they measure, and why they are rarely ordered.
The empty half of every certificate of analysis
Purity, content, identity, sterility and endotoxin are five separate determinations. A single sheet of paper carrying one of them is not evidence about the other four.