Harleysville-based Colorcon Inc., a manufacturer of pharmaceutical film coatings and specialty excipients has purchased a majority share in Ideal Cures Pvt. Ltd., an India-based manufacturer of excipients and ready-to-use coating systems for pills and capsules. 

An Allentown pharmaceutical manufacturing company, U.S. Specialty Formulations, is expanding again to continue its work developing a COVID-19 vaccine in partnership with VaxForm of Bethlehem.

INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Plymouth Meeting-based pharmaceutical company, will test the first dose of its COVID-19 vaccine today on a healthy volunteer.

Pennsylvania's top attorney is defending his efforts to make drug-maker Purdue Pharma pay for the way it marketed the painkiller OxyContin to doctors in Pennsylvania.