Clinical Comparisons Between ADHD Drugs Are Less
...ness and safety profiles of different drugs within pharmaceutical classes. The majority of the head-to-head trials identified by the Oregon reviewers compared the widely prescribed ADHD medication Ritalin with other drugs. Most of these comparative trials were short in duration, included only a small number of pat...Pharmaceutical industries grant for R&D to be monitored
...r checking the profits and safety of the drugs the pharmaceutical //manufacturers sell to the NHS. They have to moni...[ABPI]. THE PPRS sets a margin for the profit each pharmaceutical manufacturer’s gains from the sale of the drug. The OFT wants the PPRS to be very strict and maintai...Japanese And Chinese Pharmaceutical Companies Join Together In Drug Testing
...China will be the world’s second and fifth largest pharmaceutical markets,” says Christopher Savoie, GNI’s chief executive. (Source: Nature Biotechnoogy)...AIDS Generic Drugs Approved by FDA for Sale in US
...heaper compared to branded drugs, some critics and pharmaceutical giants worry about the quality and safety of using the generic drugs. Now that those patents have expired, versions of drug manufactured by Roxane Laboratories of Columbus, Ohio; Ranbaxy Laboratories of Gurgaon, India, and Aurobindo Pharma of Hyderab...Dr Reddy’s Strikes Deal With Rheoscience For Type 2 Diabetes Dru
...sing our vision of becoming a discovery-led global pharmaceutical company," he said. The deal with Rheoscience came a day after Dr Reddy's announced the formation of India's first integrated drug development company - Perlecan Pharma Private Limited - with equity capital commitment of $52.5 million from India's ...Merck and Takeda to collaborate in the sale of Cancer drug Matuzumab
.... "This collaboration with Takeda, Japans largest pharmaceutical company, will allow us to move ahead quickly with development and commercialisation of this potentially important product for cancer patients," said the head of Merck Ethical Pharmaceuticals, Elmar Schnee. Source: Indo-Asian News Services...‘Inflammation Gene’ identified by scientit
...ly to be of immense use to doctors, biomedical and pharmaceutical researchers, as it is now known that inflammation plays a role in many human disorders. The research study found that when cells are under stress mis-folded proteins build up and ‘SEPS1’ gene acts as a type of “garbage truck” that helps in clearin...Historic trial for tuberculosis launched together by leading drug companies
Two leading pharmaceutical companies, The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and Bayer Healthcare have announced a partnership to coordinate the study to uncover the potential of an existing antibiotic, //Moxifloxacin, to shorten the standard 6-month treatme...Top Pharmaceuticals Influence Doctors Prescriptions
...shed in the journal Nature which suggests that top pharmaceutical companies are influencing decisions of doctors abo...ial connections and incentives from the benefiting pharmaceutical industry. Currently it is the norm of publication of a scientific article in a peer reviewed journa...India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.
...gates including government officials, researchers, pharmaceutical companies' representatives, NGOs and advocacy groups are attending the workshop. It is being held in the backdrop of debates on methods employed in high-risk clinical trials by pharma firms and the concern on outsourcing of such trials to developing ...Impotence drug such as Viagra may cause Vision Loss
... long for the FDA to give necessary actions to the pharmaceutical companies regarding change of labels and informing the public. (Reuters 2005) Information on Side effects of Viagra in Medindia: With viagra, the most common side effects are headache, facial flushing, and upset stomach. It may also briefly ca...Generic Drugs Usage In US Can Save $20 Billion – Express Script Surve
...s are also governed by big companies which include pharmaceutical industries, who would not accept this fact but the reality is that billion of dollars can be saved by using generic drugs. On average, a generic drug costs approximately $60 less than a brand name drug. Consumers also pay a lower co-payment for gener...New anti-aging molecule could be coming up in way
...anti-aging drugs, the ultimate goal of mankind and pharmaceutical companies alike. ...Judgment In Favor Of Merck For Vioxx Drug
... is favorable for Merck and has also pushed up the pharmaceutical sector in general and although this is a big victory, they still face a lot of pending lawsuits." Irwin Mitchell – Sheffield law firm: Irwin Mitchell is the law firm in Sheffield that is pursuing cases against Merck on behalf of the affected Pe...Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?
..., yogurt, and tabletop sweeteners, as well as some pharmaceutical products like vitamins and sugar-free cough drops. More than 200 million people worldwide consume it. The sweetener has been used for more than 30 years, having first been approved by the FDA in 1974. Studies of the carcinogenicity of aspartame perfo...A Step Towards Unraveling The Schizophrenia And Depression Mystery
...rgh and Glasgow, together with scientists from the pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp & Dohme Limited, report the d...by the two Universities and by scientists from the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharpe and Dohme reveals that damage to the gene PDE4B is also seen to increase the ri...US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths
...ug Administration has concluded. Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant which markets the // drug standing in the front line of defense against a bird flu pandemic, agreed to work on changing the drug's labeling to warn of potential dermatological side-effects, reports AFP. But the powerful US medicines regulator ...Controversy: Malaria Vaccine - Future Possibility Or Just A Dream?
...led the results of a trial of a malaria vaccine by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), that has halved the incidence of severe disease in children, Pierre Druilhi, a French // entist, warned that malaria vaccination is still a far off dream failing better international coordination. Shunning claims of a...Bird Flu: India faces threat from China this winter
.... India plans to allow one of the Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company to produce Tamiflu, a drug by Swiss pharmaceutical major Roche that covers all the three existing human influence virus.......eous raids on some government hospital doctors and pharmaceutical companies in Delhi and three other cities on Monday.// The raids were conducted in Chennai, Goa, and Thiruvananthapuram, besides the national capital, an official of the investigating agency said. The houses of Sudha Talan, head of Safdarjung Hospi...