Budget 2016:Health Ministry asks for Excessive Taxation on Tobacco Products savita thakur thakur29 Feb 2016 11:39 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Health Ministry is seeking excessive taxation on tobacco products in the up coming budget for the year 2016. Its demand is based on a...
Tax group blasts Pfizer, urges stop to its tax-cutting deal savita thakur thakur27 Feb 2016 4:00 PM ISTA consumer group is accusing Pfizer of seeking to avoid $35 billion in U.S. taxes with its plan to buy fellow drugmaker Allergan in a deal structured...
US jury awards USD 72 million in Johnson & Johnson cancer suit savita thakur thakur26 Feb 2016 3:18 PM ISTSt Louis: A jury in the US state of Missouri has awarded USD 72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer, which she said...
Drug price regulator finds 4,700 medicines illegally over-priced savita thakur thakur26 Feb 2016 1:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: The national drug price regulator NPPA has warned of action against companies violating its pricing norms as it found prices of more than...
Drug distributor McKesson to buy two cancer care firms for $1.2 bln savita thakur thakur26 Feb 2016 12:43 PM ISTDrug distributor McKesson Corp said it was buying two privately held cancer care service providers, Vantage Oncology LLC and Biologics Inc, for a...
AstraZeneca's $4 billion Acerta deal endorsed by orphan drug status savita thakur thakur26 Feb 2016 12:40 PM ISTLondon: AstraZeneca's bold move to buy 55 percent of privately held biotech firm Acerta Pharma for $4 billion in December has been vindicated, at...
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals starts studies on new drug aimed at cancer treatment savita thakur thakur25 Feb 2016 4:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced discovery and initiation of enabling studies of an investigational new drug (IND) molecule targeted at...
U.S. and EU regulators urge Indian drug companies to step up standards savita thakur thakur25 Feb 2016 2:59 PM ISTU.S. and EU drug regulators called upon Indian drug companies to step up efforts to improve manufacturing standards and ensure the reliability of data...
Cipla launches generic hepatitis C drug Hepcvir-L in India savita thakur thakur25 Feb 2016 2:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Drug major Cipla has launched generic tablets used for treating of hepatitis C under the brand name 'Hepcvir-L' costing Rs 25,000 for a...
Glenmark gets USFDA nod for contraceptive tablets savita thakur thakur25 Feb 2016 1:13 PM ISTNew Delhi: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received the final nod from the US health regulator for generic oral contraceptive norgestimate ethinyl...
Ministry redrafts national policy for drug demand reduction savita thakur thakur24 Feb 2016 4:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: The national policy for drug demand reduction, which seeks to address the problem of drug and substance abuse in the country was redrafted...
Fast acting anti-rabies drug set for an India launch savita thakur thakur24 Feb 2016 1:27 PM ISTAn instantly activated drug, in other words a fast acting anti-rabies drug to rapidly deactivate the rabies virus is soon to be launched in India. It...
