What the trials adjudicated, and how
We give background rates alongside trial rates, because an event occurring during treatment is not thereby caused by it.
TheCompound Journal
Reporting on incretins, compounding & the peptide supply chain
Page 143 of 170 of this archive, newest first.
We give background rates alongside trial rates, because an event occurring during treatment is not thereby caused by it.
The evidence is real, modest, and mostly retrospective. The guidance is correspondingly cautious and has been revised toward individualisation.
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The supplier has not disputed the finding. It has not explained the gap either.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
Chromatographic purity is cheap, fast and comparable-looking. Those three properties, and not its usefulness, explain why it became the industry’s single figure of merit.
What the in-vitro data supports, what it does not, and where the extrapolation to a person begins.
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The Journal has read several hundred certificates from twenty companies. We set out what the documents actually cover, and what a reader is filling in from imagination.
What the labels permit, what clinicians do, and the size of the gap between them.
The condition on arrival is recorded by some services and not others, and it is one of the more informative lines in a report.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Three compendial method families are in routine use and a fourth, based on a recombinant enzyme rather than crab lysate, is now compendial in its own right.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
The Journal submitted the sample and paid for the analysis. The vendor was told in advance.
Nothing on this page is difficult. It is simply unfamiliar, and unfamiliarity is what makes a weak certificate look like a strong one.
The rule that a quarter of weight lost is lean tissue has been in textbooks for decades and does not survive close reading.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The evidence on stopping is better than the evidence on almost anything else in this field, because somebody deliberately randomised it.
Where the curve flattens, what flattens with it, and what does not.