Japanese, Korean firm to jointly develop breast cancer drug

Singapore: Japanese company, Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Korean firm, Syndax Pharmaceuticals, have entered into a license agre...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Cook gives Zilver PTX to doctors in US, EU, Japan

Singapore: US-based medical device manufacturer Cook Medical is again shipping its Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral St...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis' Cosentyx receives Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry for Health and Welfare has recently given its nod for Novatris' Cosentyx, that treats p...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
UK delists breast cancer drug, eribulin, from Cancer Drug Fund

Singapore: Halaven (Eribulin), indicated for the treatment of advanced or metastatic breast cancer, developed by Japanes...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Pronova, Takeda launch Lotriga in Japan

Singapore: Pronova BioPharma and Takeda's Lotriga granular capsule 2g is now available for the treatment of hyperlipide...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Takeda to distribute Kaketsuken's influenza vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has partnered with Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute for the distribution of Ka...

May 21, 2015 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo exits Sun Pharma

Singapore: The board of directors of Japanese pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited approved a resolution ...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Asthma therapy market to touch $23.1 bn by 2023

Singapore: Asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately USD15.9 billion in 2013, across eight major countr...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
New device promises to detect cancer in 3 min!

Singapore: Japanese researchers claim that they have developed a new device that can detect cancer from a drop of blood ...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | News
Mochida seeks Ulcerative Colitis drug approval in Japan

Tokyo's Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has filed for a new drug application (NDA) for MD-0901 with the Japanese Ministr...

November 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Investors eye Japan's pharma law reformation

Singapore: Assuming the role of Prime Minister of Japan in December 2012, Mr Shinzo Abe has provided a boon for Japanese...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Yokohama sets platform for 700 bio-pharmas to convene at BioJapan 2015

The seventeenth edition of BioJapan 2015, one of Asia's largest partnering events, will be held for three days from Octo...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Eylea by Bayer gets Japanese nod for myopic CNV

Singapore: Bayer's Eylea (aflibercept) injection for myopic choroidal neovascularization (myopic CNV) has received an ap...

September 23, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Japan: 1 out of 27 babies born through IVF in 2013

Singapore: Revealing that one out of 27 babies born in Japan in 2012 were through test-tube fertilization, Japan's Assoc...

September 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Astellas inks a pact with Immunomic therapeutics

Singapore: Astellas pharma recently announced collaboration with Immunomic Therapeutics to develop and commercialize JRC...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Pharma sector may lose $65 bn by 2019: Analyst

Singapore: Pharmaceutical companies will suffer an estimated $65 billion drop in sales by 2019 worldwide due to the pate...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Astellas, UMN: Recombinant flu vaccine is better

Singapore: Astellas Pharma and UMN Pharma have highlighted that the summary results for phase III clinical trial showed...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves Novartis' psoriasis drug

Singapore: Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Novartis' Cosentyx (secukinumab, formerly...

December 26, 2014 | Friday | News