Strides receives FDA nod for skin disease drug

Singapore: Bangalore-based Strides Arcolab has received regulatory approval for its skin disease drug Methoxsalen. The d...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
India to get Hewlett-Packard health cloud centers

Bangalore: Hewlett-Packard (HP) and non-government organization (NGO), Share India, have signed a memorandum of understa...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Dr S Natesh: Indian R&D is excellent despite funding crunch

The Indian biotech industry has done remarkably well so far. The inventiveness and efficiency of the industry has contri...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
Sabin institute convenes scientists to discuss typhoid vaccine

Singapore: Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will convene scientists, resea...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NIH gets candid on Indian clinical trial cancellations

Singapore: Days after cancelling around 40 ongoing clinical trials in India, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
India's anti-malaria drug banned in Ghana

Singapore: The US drug regulatory body, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the distribution of Gsunate Pl...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
Nepal agri R&D is plagued with funding crunch

The physio-geographical location of Nepal has always favored agriculture as its main business. The country is highly dep...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
US FDA imposes import alert on Ranbaxy drugs

Singapore: The US FDA has issued an alert on import of Ranbaxy Laboratories drug products that are manufactured at its ...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Apollo Pharmacy cautions against Ranbaxy drugs' use

New Delhi: Spelling further problems for India's pharma giant Ranbaxy and its Japanese owners Daiichi Sankyo, Apollo Pha...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Introduction to digital health

The twentieth century was very typical and traditional. Though newer innovations ranging from penicillin and other drugs...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | Opinion
UK-India study: Arsenic in rice cause genetic damage

Bangalore: Scientists at the University of Manchester in collaboration with CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
India's BioTech industry reacts to Union Budget 2014

India's BioTech industry reacts to the country's Union Budget 2014...

July 12, 2014 | Saturday | News
Tobacco-use study reveals frightening data

Singapore: The world's largest tobacco use survey, titled 'The Global Adult Tobacco Survey', which has been published in...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
Mitra Biotech personalizes treatment for cancer

With medicine taking great leaps due to evolving drug discovery process, today the diagnosis of cancer is promptly follo...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Australian Life Sciences & Health Care Mission visiting lndia

Singapore: A 12 member Australian Life sciences & Health care delegation is visiting India from 15 to 19 September t...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca's gout drug completes Phase III trials

Singapore: AstraZeneca's drug candidate Lesinurd has successfully finished Phase III trials, as per reports. Three Phas...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | News
Bacterial protein azurin has anti-cancer potential

New Delhi: A relatively new potential anti-cancer agent in form of azurin, a bacterial protein called arsenate reductase...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News