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Biocon To Shift Focus On Innovation To Accelerate Growth

...ology firm, has made a paradigm shift from being a generic drug manufacturer to innovation to drive its future growth aggressively. // "We are rapidly transforming from a generics API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) manufacturer into an innovator for developing a robust pipeline of new molecules. "We...

More Than ￡500m Wasted On Drugs; MP Blames NH

...ct of these medicines. We have monitored prices of generic medicines after patent expiry and taken action when necessary, to ensure that reimbursement prices reflect market prices,' said a spokesperson for the Health Department. 'We do not believe the report to be accurate. We have been working with the De...

Raloxifene Better Than Tamoxifen For Breast Cancer

... Pittsburgh Medical Center. Tamoxifen is sold as a generic drug and is widely used to prevent breast cancer, but Lilly said it would seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market Evista for this purpose. "Tamoxifen will remain the drug of choice for reducing breast cancer risk in pre-menopausal w...

Bausch & Lomb Pulls Lens Solution From US Market

...f these people say that they used ReNu products or generic versions made by Bausch & Lomb. Most of them used ReNu with MoistureLoc that was produced in US factories. Bausch & Lomb said in a statement that it had not found any link to the infections in its plants after a through inspection, but asked users to...

Provigil Patent Extension Accorded To Cephalon

...‘provogil’patent infringement litigation with four generic firms, and under this settlement, each of the four...clusive royalty bearing right to market and sell a generic version of Provigil in the US, due to become effective in April 2012. ...

Ranbaxy Expands By Acquiring A Generic Company In Belgium

...ia for $324 million, GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Italian generic business and the purchase of the rights and assets... 20 product registrations and is ranked 10th among generic companies in Belgium. --Edited IANS...

NGO Files Pre-Grant Opposition Against Anti-HIV Drug, Combivir

...nd a majority of these are solely dependent on the generic drugs provided by the national HIV/AIDS treatment program. The issue of a patent can lead to domination with respect to drug manufacture, thereby restricting the production of effective and affordable drug alternatives....

HIV Patients Opposes Patenting Of AIDS Drug

... countries identified by the Global Fund for using generic Combivir. 'Decisions made by Indian patent offic...drugs and other essential medicines made by Indian generic manufacturers,' said Anand Grover, director of Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit. Last year, India ...

GlaxoSmithKline Agrees To Settle Paxil Claims For $14 million

...vely tried to delay competitors from releasing the generic versions of its star anti-depressant drug Paxil.//...legedly involved in a shady enterprise to keep the generic producers of Paxil in a bind of using frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits, thus managing to keep ...

Ambien and the Other Insomnia Drugs

...tention. It’s just a matter of time before cheaper generic versions of insomnia drugs hit the market. Sanofi-Aventis is hoping to withstand some of the threat. Ambien has the lion's share of the $2 billion prescription insomnia drug market. Sepracor's Lunesta, available since last April, accounts for abo...

Tamiflu to be examined on clinical efficacy for WHO

...ement that it is boosting output of Tamiflu, whose generic name is oseltamivir, by a third to meet increased demand from governments building stockpiles for a potential pandemic triggered by bird flu. There is no direct clinical trial evidence that shows that oseltamivir is effective in human H5N1 disease b...

ViroPharma Shares Fall As FDA Moves Towards Generic Vancocin

...od and Drug Administration will give a nod for the generic version of Vancocin caused shares in ViroPharma to...A's changed stance means that a clinical trial for generic vancomycin might not be necessary if it dissolves at the same rate as Vancocin. ViroPharma has intim...

Vaccine For Bird Flu May Not Be Effective

...f the companies developing such a vaccine named as generic H5N1 and it plans to enter clinical trials in April. It expects to be in production by the end of the year, and is marketing it to the British government, among others. The British government has ordered two to three million doses of this vaccine a...

India Can Become Major HIV Drugs Producer

...tential to produce both original branded drugs and generic drugs for any company in the world. India can also contribute towards developing the second-line ARV drugs, as 10% to 15% of the HIV patients are developing a resistance to the first-line treatment drugs. India has a HIV population of over 5 million ...

Generic Products Compete With GlaxoSmithKline

Stiff competition offered by generic drug makers may well eat into the profit figures o...ard to the 2006 earnings as a result of low priced generic competitors for the antidepressant Wellbutrin XL, hay fever medication Flonase, and Zofran. The per ...

Drug Makers Banned From Providing Gifts To Doctors

...sed drug care costs. The trend is unhealthy as old generic forms of the drug might still be effective compared to the new generation, expensive drugs. The study authors have recommended that doctors to forbid any gift to restore the integrity of the medical profession. Drugmakers are also prohibited from p...

US Government Calls For Better Drug Supplies

...e that an amount of over $ 2 was not charged for a generic drug where low-income beneficiaries are concerned, and $5 in the case of brand-name drugs. Public health emergencies were declared by several states in the country, with state governments offering to pay for prescriptions which is the responsibili...

Roche offers HIV drug expertise to poor nations

...tical giant Roche announced transfer technology to generic drug manufacturers in the least developed countrie...cturers with the technical expertise for producing generic HIV medicines. These countries are home for 69 percent of the HIV/AIDS population in the world. ...

Tamiflu substrate produced from Bioengineered Bacteria

...rugs and many countries have started producing the generic version of the drug Tamiflu manufactured by the Swiss pharmaceuticals Roche. Due to the gold rush for shikimic acid which is used for production of Tamiflu antiviral drugs, there has been a great shortage of Chinese star anise, which contains high ...

Australia to Show Leniency towards U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies

...as to prevent the delay in the introduction of new generic drugs. According to the amendment the Australian authorities have the power to levy heavy fines and ask the pharmaceutical company to reimburse for the lost sales. Apart from that the company has to pay extra cash to the federal and state governm...

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