Opto firm to supply defibrillators to Chicago transit system

Bangalore: Cardiac Science, part of the India-headquartered Opto Circuit group, will supply medical devices to Chicago's...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
India to focus on diagnostics

New Delhi: Despite tremendous opportunities in the disease screening, the areas such as personalized diagnostics have no...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
DCGI nod for Zydus Cadila diabetic dyslipidemeia drug

Singapore: Days after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved Cadila Healthcare's new chemical entity, Lipa...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia bags $6.6 bn M&A deals in 2013

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region attracted around 101 M&A deals in pharma, medical, and biotech industry in...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
DIPP wants review of India's pharma FDI policy

New Delhi: Concerned over spate of acquisitions of domestic pharma firms by multinationals, India's Department of Indust...

June 17, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Cambridge University signs major MoU in India

Bangalore: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, will fund a new initiative for chemical biology a...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Afro-Asian event focuses on personalized cancer care

Bangalore: The Afro-Asian Conference of Transitional Research in oncology (ACTRO) kicked-started in Bangalore today. The...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Probi's Indian IBS study published in journal

Bangalore: Both the intensity and the frequency of the key symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) declined signific...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
India defers pharma barcoding until July 2014

New Delhi: The Government of India has increased the deadline for affixing barcodes on primary level packaging of pharma...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Shasun to focus on global regulatory markets

Singapore: Shasun pharmaceuticals an Indian pharmaceutical company, aims to focus on formulations manufacturing and mark...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
Will Ranbaxy, Wockhardt incidents affect brand India?

When the Indian generic sector forayed into the global arena almost two decades back, the affordability of its treatment...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
India boosting regulatory forces by double

Singapore: India has finally responded to the regular alerts issued by the top US drug regulator Food and Drug Administr...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
Sun Pharma acquires US-based Dusa

Bangalore: Sun Pharmaceutical has entered into a definitive agreement with Dusa Pharmaceuticals to acquire the latter, ...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
MK Bhan: Biotech is not a business, its a societal tool

Dr Maharaj Kishan Bhan, former secretary of India's nodal biotechnology agency, is an eminent pediatrician and clinical ...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Pharma companies focusing more on core areas'

Bangalore: On April 25, 2014, Biocon declared its FY14 performance results at its Bangalore campus, revealing 16 percent...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Company results
Pharma sector witnesses dip in hiring

New Delhi: The recruitment levels for the pharma sector in India witnessed a decrease of five percent in October 12, whe...

November 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
India may halt foreign investment in pharma

Singapore: As a resolution to the ongoing debate about whether to restrict foreign direct investment (FDI) in the existi...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
AIDS 2014 kicks off in Melbourne

Singapore: 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), kicked off in Melbourne on July 20th, with a gathering of ove...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News