Japan worried as Dengue infections rise

Singapore: Japan has confirmed a rise in dengue fever cases and the country's health ministry has said that with the rec...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
Alexion files NDA in Japan for Asfotase Alfa

Singapore: Alexion pharma has announced the submission of New Drug Application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health,...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda's multiple myeloma drug meets primary endpoints

Singapore: Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the randomized, double-blind, placebo-...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japanese pharma market to be $80 bn by 2020: Analyst

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical market value is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.3 percent fro...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | Analysis
Eisai botulinum toxin injection to help relax muscles

Singapore: Eisai launched NerBloc Intramuscular Injection 2500 Units (botulinum toxin type B, "NerBloc"), a neuromuscula...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Harvard, Sony collaborate for Organs-on-Chips

Singapore: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has collaborated with Sony DADC, d...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Takeda files NDA for multiple sclerosis drug in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour a...

December 26, 2014 | Friday | News
Ono pharma partners with Gilead lifesciences

Singapore: Japan-based Ono Pharmaceuticals recently announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Gilead...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Sanofi gets 3rd rank on Access to Medicine Index

Singapore: Sanofi has been ranked third among 20 pharmaceutical companies on the 2012 Access to Medicine Index (ATM Ind...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Akebia, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma partner for 'Vadadustat'

Singapore: Akebia Therapeutics and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC)has announced that they have entered into ...

December 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Intra-nasal vaccine: Answer to avian influenza threat

There is a fear that avian H5N1 virus could cause a pandemic of new influenza in humans without any warning. To prevent ...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Shionogi's constipation medicine proves effective in trials

Tokyo: Shionogi, one of Japan's century-old pharmaceutical manufacturers, has announced that its once-daily naldemedine ...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Asahi Kasei-SPI Pharma form alliance to market pharmaceutical additives

Tokyo: Japan's Asahi Kasei Chemicals and US-based SPI Pharma Inc. have agreed to form an alliance in the field of pharma...

December 16, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Aerocrine initiates pulmonary device sales in Japan

Singapore: Aerocrine AB, a Swedish medical products company, has launched its marketing and sales efforts of Aerocrine's...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Japanese nod for Bayer's thyroid cancer drug

Singapore: The ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved a drug for the treatment of patients w...

June 23, 2014 | Monday | News
Japan's new medical device receives FDA nod

Singapore: The US FDA has recently given its approval for a device that treats dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA), a com...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | News
FDA grants orphan status to Eisai cancer drug

Singapore: Eisai announced that the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational drug lenvatinib (...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Pluristem's regenerative medicine convinces Japan PMDA

Singapore: Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israel-based developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has announced that...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News