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Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

...Harm Reduction in Melbourne, Australia, said these pharma products were less expensive as compared to heroin and easily available in the grey market. "Addicts make a cocktail of these drugs for a better high. What is painful is that in northeastern states the interface between IDUs and sex workers is inc...

Ranbaxy Gets FDA Approval for Hypertension Drug

Indian pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited has received the approval from the US Food and Drug //Administration (FDA) to manufacture and market generic hypertension drug Atenolol in the country. Ranbaxy plans to market Atenolol tablets of 25 mg, 50 mg, and...

Bilcare Signs Pact With Honeywell for Packaging Solutions

...lopment collaboration with Honeywell//, a UK-based pharma packaging firm, to provide high-barrier packaging solution for the pharmaceutical sector. "The partnership with Honeywell's Healthcare Film Business would help Bilcare to provide state-of-the-art materials for ensuing safety of sensitive drugs," sai...

Cashing in on IT for Healthcare

...r and our clients include health insurance giants, pharma majors, healthcare providers and the like," G.K. Muralikrishna, CEO, Helios & Matheson (H&M), told IANS here. "And our tasks and deadlines are often extremely challenging," he added. The company is looking at offshore business to the tune of $120...

The Psyche Behind Drug Commercials

...a social approval angle. This study feels that the pharma companies should exercise caution in the content of the advertisement too. Reacting to this study, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturer’s Association said that the advertisements increase the awareness about a disease and its treatment amon...

Ambiguity In Patent Laws May Defer New Drug Launches

...livec, the cancer drug from Novartis AG, the Swiss pharma giant. As a result Novartis may not be able to conduct// their drug research here in India. Singapore and China are the countries where Novartis conducts its research now. While talking on this issue, Paul Herrling, who heads Corporate Research ...

Wyeth Pharma Wins Law Suit

...st cancer in her. But the lawyers representing the pharma company had argued that Rush’s genetic factors and smoking would anyway have led her to the disease irrespective of the drugs. Premarin and premro have been approved by US FDA and have remained in the market for quite some time. These drugs are int...

Verdict Against Wyeth Pharma in Prempro Case

...Jennie Nelson of Ohio had filed a case against the pharma giant accusing their drug prempro to have caused breast cancer in her. Prempro is intended as a hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Nelson has been taking this drug for six years. She later developed breast cancer and has undergone doubl...

Urban Poor in Dire Need of Proper Healthcare: Report

... urban poor. It has also recommended the leading pharma companies of the country, such as Nicholas Piramal, Pfizer, Sandoz, Elder Pharmaceuticals, Shalaks Pharma to supply medicines and other essential items at the urban healthcare centres at an affordable rate. "In 2005-06, the government allocated a s...

Actos Linked To Bone Fractures In Diabetic Women

...e to bone fractures. This was announced by Japan’s pharma giant//, Takeda Pharmaceuticals who had conducted a study on this drug. A similar note of caution was issued a few weeks back by Glaxo Smithkline also. The study was conducted for more than three years on 15,500 people. Actos which is generically ...

India Fast Become Prime Location for Clinical Trials, but Vigilance Called for

...f failures of clinical trials with many of the top pharma companies being forced to withdraw drugs after adverse reports. While Bristol-Myers Squibb terminated a new diabetes drug, Astra Zeneca halted work on a new drug for stroke patients. And Pfizer did so with its cholesterol-reducing Torcetrapib. They...

Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix

...ndigenously in Thailand. This was announced by the pharma company on Tuesday.// As per the offer made by S...d for Plavix and Kaletra, an AIDS drug from the US pharma giant Abbott Laboratories. But Abbott reacted sharply to this by refusing to launch new drugs in Tha...

Indian Pharma Industry Wants Customs Duty on Life-saving Drugs to Go

...its memorandum, the OPPI, an organization of major pharma companies, also suggests that the R&D incentives t...nge Benefit Tax (FBT) the expenses incurred by the pharma companies while hosting scientific and technical conferences for doctors and sales personnel. The...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

...ion could be considered a temporary setback to the pharma multinational. For it cannot hope for any early decision on the patent plea. The Appellate Board’s ruling too can be challenged it in the courts. To add to Novartis’ miseries the technical member of the new appellate court will be none other tha...

United Biotech Launches New Oncology Division

...he company is also in talks with four other global pharma companies for strategic tie-ups for its oncology business. With this launch, the company intends to manufacture and market molecules that are currently being exclusively marketed by multinationals. The company also intends to offer the products a...

Biocon Net Profit Up by 15 Percent for Fiscal Year

...strong reputation as a preferred partner to global pharma and biotech companies," she added. The company's subsidiary Syngene, during this period, entered into a partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb one of the world's leading pharmaceutical firms, to provide research and development (R&D) services for d...

Gilead's AIDS Drug Awaits Patent in India

...ntered into generic licensing deals with 10 Indian pharma firms to distribute its HIV drug Viread, is hoping...ght to protect its intellectual property. Indian pharma major Cipla has filed a pre-grant opposition against the patent application for Viread before the pa...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

...t by the Food and Drug Administration, the Purdue pharma of the US gave in, admitting it had made false claims about their popular painkiller Oxycontin. They have agreed to pay up $634.5 millions for making false claims about the drug to boost sales and also pleaded guilty to charges of playing down Oxy...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...f his birth. SubbaRow, who headed research at US pharma giant Lederle Laboratories in the 1940s, gave to the world some very vital drugs - folic acid, an anti-filarial drug, used widely even today, a wide-spectrum antibiotic and a drug to fight cancer. But he unfortunately died relatively young, at the ag...

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

A bio-technology pharma company from Zurich, Switzerland has developed a drug that can reduce high blood pressure for several months at a time . The drug cleans up angiotensin II, a natural peptide that raises blood pressure by contracting vessels, by inducing antibodies....

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