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'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...ajor lawsuit has been launched against the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline on behalf of a group of people who say they became chronically addicted to an antidepressant drug in the same class as Prozac. The case, which has been filed in California, is the first ever to claim damages for addiction agains...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...bai. And who are the warring parties? They are the pharmaceutical industry of the country and the RDCA or the Retail...e latter’s domain.The trouble started when several pharmaceutical companies and large business groups decided to get into retailing, by opening their own outlet or ch...

Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

...ications market presents great opportunity. Indian pharmaceutical companies need to increase awareness levels about ...ly getting saturated. The time is right for Indian pharmaceutical companies to focus on the osteoporosis medications market. br>...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...million people world-wide, and has been one of the pharmaceutical industries biggest success stories of recent years... not to uncover evidence of side effects. However, pharmaceutical companies argue that because no evidence of side effects has been uncovered, that proves their drugs...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

... a boost, in the form of free drugs donated by the pharmaceutical giant Aventis. But scientists say free drugs are not enough. According to WHO estimates, some half a million people in Africa are currently infected by African Trypanosomiasis - but because of a lack of medical screening in rural areas, many do not...

Setting up a new pharmaceutical industry in India

Erweka Germany is setting up a new pharmaceutical company in India in the name of Erweka India Pvt L...es worldwide has a strong brand name in the Indian pharmaceutical Industry for the its precisions and accuracy. // At present it plans to start with importing from...

Genesis of SUPAC

...t Approval Changes (SUPAC) is an integral part of pharmaceutical product development but till a few years ago, no g...t regulatory body to address this issue. // Any pharmaceutical product developed by R&D team has to undergo various stages of scale-up from ‘laboratory-scale’ to ‘...

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

Medicis is the leading independent pharmaceutical company in the United States focusing primarily on...onditions. Based in Wilmington, Mass., Ascent is a pharmaceutical company primarily dedicated to the specialty of pediatrics. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation and A...

FDA's control is inherently weak

...uy products based on their results. The number of pharmaceutical researchers working outside the United States who voluntarily report their experiments to the FDA increased 16-fold from 1990 to 1999, dwarfing the agency's ability to inspect the test sites. More worrisome, is that the FDA does not know how many su...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...and are being used in many industrial syntheses of pharmaceutical products. // This year Nobel Prize in Chemistry concerns the way in which certain chiral molecules can be used to speed up and control important chemical reactions. In the early sixties it was not known whether catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation w...

Cure for Hepatitis B

...et by early next year, after which it will move to pharmaceutical counters around the world....

Andhra Pradesh to set up 'Pharma City'

...ity’, the state government hopes to attract global pharmaceutical companies to the city for outsourcing about 400 dr...cture development so that Indian and international pharmaceutical companies can undertake research and development, clinical trials, manufacturing and marketing in a ...

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

...dus Cadila Healthcare Limited, the Ahmedabad based pharmaceutical company has launched a revolutionary drug, Bonmax (raloxifene hydrochloride) consolidating its presence in the female healthcare segment. Bonmax is used in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO). The drug comes as third gen...

New drug may stop alopecia

...ssing side effects of the treatment of cancer. The pharmaceutical company Glaxo Wellcome has formulated a gel which which contains a drug known as GW8510, helped to prevent hair loss// in rats subjected to chemotherapy. Lead researcher Stephen Davis said the gel completely prevented hair loss in half of the rats t...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories launches Hyalosy

...er a co-marketing arrangement with Gland Pharma, a pharmaceutical company in Hyderabad well known for the production of pre-filled injectables. The introduction of Hyalosyn would further strengthen the company’s arthritis franchise in which it is already a leading player in the domestic market. ...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...sed by production problems, fewer drugmakers// and pharmaceutical companies choosing to stop making some products. The situation is so bad that 8 of the 11 recommended childhood vaccines are in short supply, including tetanus, diphtheria and a pneumococcal vaccine used to prevent bacterial meningitis. Another Merc...

Nicholas buys ICI’s drug business for Rs 70 c

...icholas Piramal India Ltd. (NPIL) has acquired the pharmaceutical business of ICI (India) Ltd. For Rs 70 crore in an all-cash deal, on a going concern basis. The amount includes Rs 14 crore towards acquiring net current assets of ICI and Rs 1 crore to NPIL by ICI towards transaction costs. The deal includes ICI’s k...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...rnative treatments and other key information. The pharmaceutical industry argues the ads inform and educate consumers, prompt many to see their doctor about an untreated health problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more faithfully. Sixty percent of the print and broadcast ads were for just 20 me...

Status of some prescription drugs

...sician about new cures and new treatments." Some pharmaceutical firms are cautiously supportive of the trend to increase over-the-counter availability of some drugs, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol medications. However, they cite safety concerns in objecting to making other drugs, such as bi...

Abbott Laboratories to buy Biocompatibles' cardiovascular stent business

...company's BiodivYsio coated stents since 1999. The pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer also will assume worldwide commercial rights for all potential drug-coated stent products in Biocompatibles' pipeline. Abbott Laboratories said it expects the deal to be completed in the second quarter. Abbott shares...

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