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Scientific Insight Enables Risk Mitigation: Why West is By our Customers’ Side
As regulations increase across the pharmaceutical industry, reliable scientific evidence is needed to support the decisions being made during the drug development process in order to achieve the safe delivery of medicines to patients.
Recent regulations around issues such as particulate and heavy metals, require a strong understanding of the testing and analysis to move drug products to the market.
Collaboration with strategic suppliers is critical to managing issues associated with bringing a sensitive drug molecule to market. By supporting our customers from molecule to market, West works to build a close partnership that can provide the scientific analysis, data and regulatory support needed to mitigate risk, speed drug development, and get drug products to market to support patient health.
No matter what challenges our customers face during the drug product life-cycle, chances are West has faced them before. With nearly a century of industry leading experience, West may already have the answers you need, and if not, we can develop a scientific approach to find what you’re looking for. Working together, we can address issues quickly and effectively, helping to mitigate risks as early as possible in the development process by helping customers navigate regulatory and technical challenges.
To learn more about how West can help, check out our video here on our Integrated Solutions Program page.#WestByYourSide
Imagine self-administered cancer treatments in the comfort of a patient’s home. How close are we to making this a reality? During this unprecedented time, immuno-compromised patients can benefit from receiving a self-administered, home-based treatment option. One major factor into making home-based cancer treatment a reality is a focus on shifting the route of administration from intravenous to subcutaneous delivery. Due to an emphasis on patient involvement in shared decision making for health care policy and medical approaches, understanding the intravenous to subcutaneous transition in medical injections has garnered increased importance. If therapeutic efficacy is not compromised, the less invasive nature and convenience of subcutaneous injections is often the preferred route of administration.<sup>1-2,4-6</sup>
Aaron Chapman, PhD
Program Manager, Commercial Technology Development
West’s SmartDose® platform has been selected as a finalist in the 19th Annual <a href="http://mdeawards.mddionline.com/">Medical Design Excellence Awards</a> (MDEA) competition. Considered the medtech industry’s premier design competition, MDEA recognizes significant achievements in medical product design and engineering and the many people behind the scenes—engineers, scientists, designers and clinicians—who are responsible for the cutting-edge products that are improving patient healthcare.
The first thought that you may have when you hear the word “rubber” is natural rubber – a poly-isoprene-based polymer, which has as its origination the latex fluid drawn from rubber trees (most prominently in Indonesia and Malaysia). Although natural rubber has been used in the past for pharmaceutical applications, potential issues with latex allergies resultant from proteins from the original latex, have led to the almost complete adoption of synthetic rubber.<br />
West's contract manufacturing team has once again reached a record level of support for Temple Street Children’s Hospital and recently presented a check for €18,000 that was raised by employees in 2015.
<em>As we continue the 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the West without Borders fundraising campaign, let’s take a look back at what the partnership with Camp Victory. The partnership has existed formally for West since 2007 when “Uncle Walt’s Treehouse” was built thanks to donations from West team members, and informally for many volunteers long before that, has meant to team members from the Jersey Shore and Williamsport plants.</em>