More inspections due to rising drug imports from India: USFDA savita thakur thakur29 Feb 2016 5:50 PM ISTAhmedabad: The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on Saturday said its quality checks are part of surveillance system and the number...
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw backs move to have separate pharma ministry savita thakur thakur29 Feb 2016 5:49 PM ISTHyderabad: Leading industrialist Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has backed government's proposal to establish a separate ministry for pharma, expressing hope...
China says to speed up approvals for some drugs savita thakur thakur29 Feb 2016 5:48 PM ISTShanghai: China's drug regulator said it would accelerate approvals of new medicines, long a headache for pharmaceutical firms who complain it takes...
Sun Pharma MRs organise two day strike Geeta Sharma Sharma28 Feb 2016 11:48 PM ISTMumbai: Drug maker Sun Pharma's medical representatives organized a two day strike on 25-26 Feb to push for take back of transfer orders served on 54...
Sandoz Products to be Bought By ICIG from Novartis Geeta Sharma Sharma28 Feb 2016 11:47 PM IST26th February :Sandoz, a Frankfurt -Hochst , German based company's industrial Products will be purchased by the international Chemical Investors's...
UK:GSK facing lawsuits over side effects of Zofran Geeta Sharma Sharma28 Feb 2016 11:47 PM IST United Kingdom: GlaxosmithKline is facing 220 lawsuits for its anti nausea drug Zofran . Consumed by pregnant mothers, the drug has allegedly...
Power Supply A matter of Concern for Pharma : CMD, Biocon Geeta Sharma Sharma28 Feb 2016 3:46 PM ISTNew Delhi:In an Interview to The Economic Times this week, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon emphasised on power supply being a big concern for the...
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...
