Fight against neglected tropical diseases needs Big Pharma push: WHO supriya kashyap kashyap23 April 2017 11:54 AM ISTGeneva : Progress has been made in tackling diseases that blind, disable and disfigure millions of poor in tropical areas each year, but drug...
Unfortunate: Biotech firm pulls pioneering gene therapy due to no demand Ruby Khatun Khatun23 April 2017 10:17 AM ISTBy Ben HirschlerLONDON: The biotech company behind the Western world's first gene therapy and the most expensive prescription medicine in history is...
EMA panel recommends nod for Sanofi, Regeneron's arthritis drug Ruby Khatun Khatun22 April 2017 12:47 PM ISTA European Medicines Agency panel said on Friday it recommended granting marketing approval to Sanofi and Regeneron's experimental drug to treat...
Valeant prices psoriasis treatment at $3,500 per month Ruby Khatun Khatun22 April 2017 12:21 PM ISTCanadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc said it had priced its recently approved plaque psoriasis treatment at $3,500 per month,...
FDA approves Samsung Bioepis' copy of J&J's Remicade: company Ruby Khatun Khatun22 April 2017 12:20 PM ISTSouth Korea's Samsung Bioepis Co Ltd said on Saturday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its copy of Johnson & Johnson's rheumatoid...
US drug Regulator links Sanofi epilepsy drug to child deformities Ruby Khatun Khatun22 April 2017 10:06 AM ISTBy Matthias BlamontPARIS: Up to 4,100 children in France suffered major malformations in the womb after their mothers took a treatment against...
Pfizer subpoenaed in US intravenous saline solution probe supriya kashyap kashyap21 April 2017 11:02 AM ISTBoston : Pfizer Inc has received grand jury subpoenas from the U.S. Justice Department in connection with an antitrust investigation focusing on drug...
Sandoz must face wrongful death claim over heart drug - judge supriya kashyap kashyap21 April 2017 10:57 AM ISTNovartis AG's Sandoz unit must face a wrongful death lawsuit accusing it of promoting a generic version of Pfizer Inc's cardiac arrhythmia drug...
NPPA to penalise companies offering freebies on stent sales supriya kashyap kashyap21 April 2017 10:55 AM IST New Delhi : Drug price regulator NPPA warned coronary stent manufacturing firms of strict action if they are found giving freebies on sale of the...
GSK to pay $3 million to wife of lawyer who committed suicide after taking generic version of Paxil: US Court Ruby Khatun Khatun21 April 2017 10:42 AM ISTBy Nate Raymond and Barbara GrzincicChicago : GlaxoSmithKline(GSK.L) must pay $3 million to a woman who sued the drug company over the death of her...
As AstraZeneca chases rivals, immuno-oncology gets complicated supriya kashyap kashyap21 April 2017 9:57 AM ISTLondon : Three years after Pfizer's failed bid for AstraZeneca, the British drug maker aims to prove in the coming weeks that its cancer immunotherapy...
Teva's new asthma inhaler poses first competition for GSK's Advair Ruby Khatun Khatun21 April 2017 9:06 AM ISTBy Divya GroverTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Thursday launched an asthma inhaler that will be the first direct competition to...
