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 I...

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
Taconic Biosciences expands its pact with Japan's Micell

Singapore: Taconic Biosciences, a global leading provider of genetically modified animal models to researchers, recently...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Zecotek receives $500,000 order from Hamamatsu

Singapore: Zecotek Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific ...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca to commercialize Daiichi Sankyo's OIC drug

Singapore: AstraZeneca has partnered with Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo to co-commercialize Movantik (naloxegol) in the US,...

March 20, 2015 | Friday | News
Astellas to axe 300 jobs in home country in FY14

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Astellas Pharma has announced that it would cut down its group workforce in hom...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | News
R&D Antibodies gets nod from Japan Patent Office

Singapore: Research & Diagnostic Antibodies (R&D Antibodies) received a notice of allowance from the Japan Paten...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Takeda gastro norovirus vaccine shows +ve results

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has achieved positive reponse from its phase I/II study of its intramuscular bivalent (...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Targeted Medical Pharma assigns J-Network as distributor

Singapore: US-based Targeted Medical Pharma has signed an exclusive product distribution agreement with J-Network, a Cal...

February 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
DSP, Edison sign deal for mitochondria disease

Singapore: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) has signed a research, development and commercial license agreement for th...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan approves extended indication of CryoLife's BioGlue

CryoLife Inc., a leading medical device and tissue processing company focused on cardiac and vascular surgery, announced...

July 10, 2015 | Friday | News
World's most powerful microscope ready for use

Singapore: The world's most powerful microscope, which resides in a specially constructed room at the University of Vict...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sosei buys Heptares Therapeutics

Singapore: Sosei Group Corporation, a leading Japanese biopharmaceutical company with operations in Japan and the UK, ha...

February 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News