USFDA panel votes against Nektar painkiller MD bureau15 Jan 2020 9:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: Independent advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unanimously voted against Nektar Therapeutics' opioid painkiller...
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma agrees to provide proprietary research, other data Medical Dialogues Bureau25 Aug 2019 9:00 AM ISTOKLAHOMA CITY: The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin has agreed to provide access to proprietary research and other data to researchers at...
Bayer sells Animal Health unit to US drug firm Elanco for USD 7.6 billion Medical Dialogues Bureau21 Aug 2019 9:00 AM ISTBayer said in a statement that the sale, aimed at sharpening the company's focus on life sciences, was expected to be concluded in mid-2020 pending...
Families say OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must be held accountable for its role in opioid epidemic Medical Dialogues Bureau5 Aug 2019 9:00 AM ISTThe parents and their supporters rallied outside a Boston courthouse Friday as a judge heard arguments in Massachusetts' lawsuit against Purdue...
NPPA fixes retail price of 14 combo drugs including Aspirin, Paracetamol, Vitamin D3; Details Farhat Nasim27 Jun 2019 4:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Through a recent notification, the government regulatory agency, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed the retail...
Teva Pharma to settle $85 million opioid claims of Oklahoma Medical Dialogues Bureau27 May 2019 9:00 AM ISTOklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has alleged that JnJ and Teva Pharma, along with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP, carried out deceptive marking...
Rochester Drug Cooperative fined $20 million in criminal case against drug distributor over opioids Medical Dialogues Bureau24 April 2019 9:00 AM ISTThe company where the executives worked, Rochester Drug Cooperative (RDC), is one of the country's largest distributors of prescription opioids. It...
Lower dose of Pfizer, Eli Lilly blockbuster painkiller tanezumab misses target in late stage study Farhat Nasim20 April 2019 10:00 AM ISTThe drug, tanezumab, belongs to a new category of pain medications that target nerve growth factor, a protein involved in the growth of nerve cells,...
US to wrap criminal trial of Insys Therapeutics' executives tied to opioid crisis Medical Dialogues Bureau6 April 2019 8:59 AM ISTBOSTON: Prosecutors on Thursday will present their closing arguments in the trial of the wealthy founder of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics...
New York sues billionaire family behind maker of OxyContin Garima30 March 2019 9:00 AM ISTNEW YORK: New York is suing the billionaire family behind the company that created OxyContin, joining a growing list of state and local governments...
Purdue Pharma agrees to pay $270 million to settle opioid case Medical Dialogues Bureau28 March 2019 9:15 AM ISTPurdue Pharma introduced OxyContin in the 1990s and marketed it hard to doctors, making tens of billions of dollars from the drug. But the company has...
Supreme Court lifts ban on Saridon, major relief to Piramal Meghna A Singhania21 Feb 2019 6:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a major relief to Piramal, the Supreme Court has exempted the popular painkiller drug Saridon from the list of Fixed Dose Combinations...
