GMP violation leads US FDA to warn two Indian firms

Singapore: Indian drug makers Promed Exports and Post Chemicals have been issued a warning letter from US FDA for violat...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Novartis pledges to eliminate leprosy

Singapore: Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) has launched a new leprosy strategy focused on interru...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
MenAfriVac wins BioSpectrum product award for fight against meningitis

Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a cause of the contagious bacterial meningitis that can lead to life-threateni...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
IDMA: Lift excise duty on R&D and samples

Singapore: The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) has sent a memorandum to the country's Finance Ministry req...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Arvind Remedies' net profit up by 70%

Chennai: Arvind Remedies (ARL), a leading producer of branded and generic pharmaceutical products revealed its financia...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Milestones in drug delivery technology in Asia

In 2007, Dabur Pharma, one of India's leading manufacturers of anti-cancer drugs, launched Nanoxel, a novel drug deliver...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India pledges unabridged eradication of Encephalitis

Singapore: The recent outbreak of Encephalitis in India has claimed 102 children in the past 14 days. Majority of the ca...

June 19, 2014 | Thursday | News
How to bridge the gap in Bt cotton cultivation

To keep pace with the growth story in cotton cultivation, the government needs to do more. New technologies, more stress...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
DST: We're India's largest life science player

India's Department of Science and Technology (DST), which was established in May 1971 with the objective of promoting ne...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Mr Denzil Benjamin, ICON: New guidelines by India's CDSCO will re-define the industry in 2013

Adapting technology and tools to address the issues of increasing research and development (R&D) costs, slow results...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
India strengthens clinical trial regulations

In a bid to strengthen the regulation and monitoring of clinical trials in the country, the Indian government has announ...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
GE launches system to treat infant jaundice

Bangalore: Wipro GE Healthcare, GE Healthcare's business arm in India, introduced its Lullaby LED Phototherapy System to...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
ClearPath aligner makes smiles brighter

Singapore: Be it the low cost benefit or the vast gene pool, the Asian market has for many years been able to, lure the ...

March 26, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Glass packaging poses lowest toxicity hazard

Bangalore: The green potential of glass as a packaging medium has the lowest hazard in Human Toxicity Potential (HTP: to...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | News
To stop drug production, inform 6 months in prior'

New Delhi: The Indian Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013 highlighted that pharma companies need to issue a public noti...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | News
India revises price of 154 drug formulations

New Delhi: In a move seen to benefit millions of people suffering from various ailments, the National Pharmaceutical Pri...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Lupin gets FDA approval to market Lutera

Singapore: Pharma major Lupin has received final approval for its Levonorgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets USP, 0.1...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Samsung's 5D technology ultrasound reaches India

Singapore: Leading global technology company, Samsung Electronics, a global leader in technology, has launched the UGEO ...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News