Indian top court to review drug pricing policy

New Delhi: India's Supreme Court has agreed to examine the new national pharmaceutical pricing policy framed by the c...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Academia Sinica signs deal with Indian academy

Singapore: Academia Sinica of Taiwan and the Indian National Science Academy have signed an agreement on scientific coop...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Pacmachine awards for ACG packaging products

Mumbai: ACG Worldwide has won recognition for multiple products at the Pacmachine 2012 awards. Organised by the In...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
India continues to attract FDI in pharma

Indian pharmaceutical companies continue to receive approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), a natio...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Waters to continue investing in India

Waters India, a fully owned subsidiary of Waters in the US, is celebrating its silver jubilee anniversary in India. Driv...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Groupe Athena, Eskayef Bangladesh join hands

Mumbai: Groupe Athena has entered into a multiyear contract with Eskayef Bangladesh, a leading Indian pharmaceutical man...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSIR, HP launch cloud-enabled eHealth initiative

New Delhi: India's premier research and development body, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Hew...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eppendorf expands product range in India

Bangalore: Eppendorf expanded its tissue culture consumables (TCC) product range with launch of new Easypet 3, cell coun...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | News
YM BioSciences appoints Kapil Dhingra to its board

Singapore: US-based YM BioSciences, a drug development company advancing hematology and cancer related products, appoint...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India gets new guidelines for distribution practices of drugs

Bangalore: India is being touted to play a crucial role in the domain of biologics and biosimilars, as their presence be...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Deadly outbreak of Swine flu grips India

Singapore: A deadly swine flu outbreak has gripped India, killing nearly 206 people in a single week, thus raising this ...

February 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Cipla launches first rheumatic drug biosimilar in India

Mumbai: Cipla launched the first biosimilar of Etanercept in India under the brand name, Etacept, indicated for the trea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Advinus gets $36 mn research funding from Takeda

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and Advinus Therapeutics jointly announced that they would be initiating a three-year d...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm, Dr Reddy's terminate generics JV

Hyderabad: Fujifilm and Dr Reddy's Laboratories have decided to terminate the memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enter...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Dr Reddy's launches generic fracture drug

Hyderabad: Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) launched Zoledronic Acid Injection (4 mg/5 mL), a bioequivalent generic vers...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
India budget 2013: A fillip for bioagri

Giving a boost to agriculture in India, the Finance Minister of the country, Mr P Chidamabaram, announced $4.9 billion (...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Torrent to acquire Eleder Pharma at $325 mn

Singapore: India-based Torrent Pharmaceuticals plans to acquire Elder Pharmaceuticals for approximately $325 million. El...

December 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Sanofi is top bidder for Elder Pharma

Mumbai: Sanofi has emerged, as the highest bidder for all brands of Mumbai-based Elder Pharma, valuing the Indian firm a...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioAsia 2013 kickstarts in Hyderabad, India

Bangalore: BioAsia, one of Asia's biggest technology and bio-business platform for biotechnology and life sciences, kick...

January 28, 2013 | Monday | News
Medical coding needs better documentation technology

In most US healthcare information technology (HIT) environments, the speed and accuracy of medical coding relies heavi...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Genome Life Sciences lab gets recognition in India

New Delhi: Chennai-based bioinformatics and biomarker company Genome Life Sciences (GLS) recently received recognition f...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
India's National Vaccine Policy: What next?

A year after India released its National Vaccine Policy, industry experts say it is time to draw up a plan to put the gu...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
KIRAN to encourage women scientists

Singapore: Announcing a special promotion scheme for women Scientists "KIRAN", the science and technology minister revea...

September 17, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Mr Steven Kaufman, SHL Group: 2013 will be an exciting year for drug delivery devices

Pharmaceutical companies in the region are starting to take more interest in biologics and biosimilars, and of course wi...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Trivitron to tap critical life support solutions market

Bangalore: Trivitron Healthcare, the largest Indian multinational in medical technology, has shifted its focus to the cr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News