Lilly to expand generics manufacturing facility in China

Singapore: Lilly and Novast Laboratories have commenced the expansion of manufacturing and development facility capaciti...

March 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Ranbaxy to market infliximab biosimilar

Singapore: Switzerland based EPIRUS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston-based EPIRUS Biopharmaceuticals, and Ranbaxy La...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
US FDA issues API bulk & tapped density guidance

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance to the Active Pharmaceutical ingredient industr...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Teva gets FDA nod for generics of Eli Lillys Evista

Singapore: Teva Pharmaceutical has recieved USFDA approval of the generic equivalent to Evista (Raloxifene) Tablets, 60 ...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Sun Pharma revenue touches $480 million in Q2 2012

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries reported a growth of 62 percent in its net sales for the quarter ending June 30, 2...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | Company results
FIPB clears seven pharma proposals, defers three

Singapore: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared seven out of the ten investment proposals in the ph...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Australia temporarily bans 19 synthetic drugs

Singapore: The Australian government has imposed a temporary ban on sales of 19 synthetic drugs pursuant to the product ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Generics market to touch $231 bn by 2017: Report

Singapore: The global generic pharmaceuticals market is likely to witness strong growth in the next few years owing to t...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Bayer to acquire China's OTC firm

Singapore: Bayer plans to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Dihon Pharmaceutical, a privately held pharmaceutical com...

February 28, 2014 | Friday | News
Actavis clocks $8.7 bn revenue in 2013

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company Actavis has clocked net revenue of $8.7 billion in the year 2013, marking an in...

February 21, 2014 | Friday | Company results
Indian market expected to grow 12% during 2011-15

New Delhi: The global business intelligence firm, ResearchandMarket has filed their latest report with their projections...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
US court lifts temporary injunction against Hanmi

Singapore: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has lifted a temporary injunction against the US launch of...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Indian firms get FDA approval for 110 generic drugs

Singapore: India pharmaceutical companies have yet again emerged as the biggest overseas sources of medicines sold in th...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Simcere Pharma sells Boda subsidiary for $65 mn

Singapore: Simcere Pharma has agreed to sell its 99.99 percent stake in Jilin Boda Pharma for $65 million. The company f...

July 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Actavis files ANDA for Reckitt generic with FDA

Singapore: Actavis has filed an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) with the US FDA seeking approval to market Bupre...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Teva restructures organization model

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Teva Pharmaceutical, is restructuring its management and organizational functi...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Bayer appoints a new President

Singapore: Bayer pharmaceuticals announced changes in the top management, declaring Mr Dieter Weinand as the president o...

June 11, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Lupin begins trial runs at Nagpur's Mihan unit

Mumbai: Indian drug giant Lupin Pharma has begun trial run at Mihan that it expects to become fully functional in two ye...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Dr. Reddy's launches generic of Singulair oral granules

Bangalore: India-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched its montelukast sodium oral granules, a bioequivalent gene...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo generics' unit to launch 5 drugs

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's pharmaceuticals subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha is all set to launch five generic products ...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Aurobindo receives FDA approval for Nevirapine

Bangalore: India-based Aurobindo Pharma has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration for Nevir...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Another Indian pharma company rapped by FDA

Singapore: After reports of Indian drug majors Ranbaxy Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Wockh...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe files NDA for Canagliflozin

Singapore: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma announced that the company has submitted an application for the manufacturing and ma...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Mylan to develop, market Biocon generic insulin

Bangalore: India's No 2 biotech company, Bangalore-based Biocon has announced a strategic partnership with global generi...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Australia's Mayne Pharma launches Doryx in US

Singapore: Mayne Pharma Group has announced the launch of Doxycycline Hyclate Delayed-Release tablet in the US through t...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
The US coaxing India to relax patent laws: MSF

Singapore: Medical Charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has condemned the US for mounting pressure on India's new gov...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | News
FDA approves Novo Nordisk haemophilia A drug

Singapore: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novo Nordisk's Biologics License Application (BLA) for r...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Sun Pharma settles Gleevec compound litigation

Singapore: Novartis Pharmaceuticals has reported to settle its litigation with US subsidiary of India based Sun Pharmace...

May 20, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Bayer's CEO to step down by 2016

Singapore: German drugmaker Bayer announced that Dr Marjin Dekkers will step down as the CEO, by the end of 2016. The fi...

June 5, 2014 | Thursday | News
Lupin gets FDA approval for Lyrica generic

Mumbai: Pharma major Lupin's subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, has received final approval for its pregabalin capsules,...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Indian state to slash prices of 348 drugs

Singapore: Tripura has become the first Indian state to announce its implementation of the country's health ministry's d...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi to work with US FDA to solve Ranbaxy quality issue

Singapore: As a strong reaction to the import ban placed on Ranbaxy Laboratories' third manufacturing unit in India, the...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy aiming to sell its generics in Japan

Singapore: Leading Indian generic drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories, along with its owners, Japan's second largest pharma...

November 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy claims FDA form '483' not a show stopper

Singapore: Soon after reports of Ranbaxy's Mohali manufacturing plant being issued a Form 483 by the US US FDA broke out...

June 28, 2013 | Friday | News
Astellas joins hands with Tecnofarma International

Singapore: The US subsidiary of Japanese drug major Astellas Pharma has entered into a distribution agreement with Tecno...

June 7, 2013 | Friday | News
Generic sodium tablets from Dr. Reddy's, Mylan hit US market

Mumbai: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India's leading pharmaceutical company, recently launched Montelukast Sodium Tablets a...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Generics take center stage in South East Asia

Singapore: The South East Asian pharmaceuticals industry is forecast to witness a boost to $3.9 billion by 2016. The in...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
China: GSK used sexual bribery to boost sales

Singapore: The police in China have made it official that four senior Chinese executives of GlaxoSmithKline have been de...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Mayne Pharma acquires generic drugmaker Libertas

Singapore: Mayne Pharma from Australia has made a second US acquisition by buying privately-held US-based generic drugma...

July 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Bribery inquiries rising in China: SPP

Singapore: Chinese prosecutors have received more than 600,000 inquiries about bribery records involving companies or in...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
China bans GSK finance head from leaving country

Singapore: Even as police in China are investigating claims of bribery against the British drug major for bribing doctor...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
UCB sues 15 firms for patent infringement

Singapore: In a move that is threatening to become a high profile patent infringement suit, global biopharma company UCB...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Deregulation will boost Japanese pharma sector

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical industry is the second largest in the world, worth $89 billion in 2011 or 10 percent o...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
50% of all drug firms have counter-generics team

Singapore: A report by Cutting Edge Information titled, 'Post-patent generic and biosimilar defense: Harnessing competit...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Diabetes drug Actos banned in India

Singapore: The Indian Health Ministry has banned the blockbuster diabetes drug Actos along with suspending sales of pain...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Reports: GSK staff detained in 'fraud data' case in China

Singapore: The Chinese police have reportedly detained employees of British pharmaceuticals major GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Dr Yusuf K Hamied: India's generics king

Dr Yusuf K Hamied, CMD of India's largest pharma company, Cipla, has earned many unflattering epithets for building a co...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
India to realign regulatory with pharma industry

India's top drug regulatory body, the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSO) is literally facing the heat, th...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Sun Pharma generic testosterone injection gets FDA nod

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries received final approval from the US FDA for its abbreviated new drug application (...

June 6, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
GlobalData: New Zealand focuses on generics

Singapore: A new study by GlobalData has revealed that New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Management Agency's (PHARMAC) is emp...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Lilly expands partnership with Novast

Singapore: In support of its commitment to maximize growth opportunities in China, Eli Lilly has decided to increase its...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Gulf nations woo Indian generic firms

Singapore: A new report by investment bank Alpen Capital titled, 'The GCC pharmaceutical Outlook', a number of Gulf Coop...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japan's Meiji Seika Pharma buys Medreich

Singapore: Japan's Meiji Seika Pharma is set to acquire Bangalore-based generic drug maker Medreich for $290 million. Th...

June 27, 2014 | Friday | News
China cracks the whip on big pharma

Two separate but equally important developments took place in China this month. One, intensification of investigations i...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | Opinion
Mylan to produce generic of Gilead's HIV drug

Singapore: Mylan signed a new agreement between its subsidiary Mylan Laboratories and Gilead Sciences. According top thi...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News
Actavis to sell generic AstraZeneca's Crestor

Singapore: US-based Actavis reached a settlement agreement with AstraZeneca resolving outstanding patent litigation rela...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, GSK sign productivity pact with Singapore's A*Star

Singapore: Pharma industry leaders Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline have joined hands with global engineering giants Siemens t...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
HIV generics to take over antivirals market

Singapore: Generics are predicted to take over the antiviral drugs market, especially in the case of HIV medication, as ...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | 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 versio...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
GSK executives confessed to bribery charges: China

Singapore: Two weeks after intense investigations into GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) operations across China, the country's se...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy to market Desvenlafaxine in the US

Bangalore: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories, has entered into an in-licensing...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India to review its pharma FDI policies

New Delhi: The Indian government will be reviewing the foreign direct investment (FDI) policies for the pharmaceutical i...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
DCGI nod for Zydus Cadila diabetic dyslipidemeia drug

Singapore: Days after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved Cadila Healthcare's new chemical entity, Lipa...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Gilead, Teva to settle patent case of HIV drug

Singapore: Biopharmaceutical companies Gilead Sciences and Teva Pharmaceuticals have decided to settle the ongoing paten...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Police: Sexual favours spurred GSK's $1.5 bn China sales

Singapore: A day after making the allegations against GlaxoSmithKline's senior executives public, China's Public Securit...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Shasun to focus on global regulatory markets

Singapore: Shasun pharmaceuticals an Indian pharmaceutical company, aims to focus on formulations manufacturing and mark...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
IOF, Fonterra grants $43K to Indonesian for bone R&D

Singapore: Global organization, International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), and New Zealand dairy firm, Fonterra have c...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mylan launches generic hypertension drug in US

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Mylan, has launched Telmisartan tablets-20 mg, 40 mg and 80 mg, the generic versi...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
New tech promises revenue boost for drug makers

Australian drug delivery technology company Imugene has developed Linguet, a drug delivery technology platform, to impro...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Abbott to sell branded generics business to Mylan

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm Abbott is planning to sell its developed markets branded generics pharmaceuticals ...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Another Ranbaxy plant faces US FDA ire

Singapore: The year 2014 is bringing back haunting memories of the way the year gone by had started for India's biggest ...

January 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda diabetes drug gets China's import license

Singapore: China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued an Import Drug License (IDL) for Takeda's type 2 di...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Dr. Reddy's launches Aricept generic Donepezil

Singapore: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched Donepezil Hydrochloride tablets, 23 mg, a therapeutic equivalent generi...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan pharma to grow at 2% CAGR from 2013-20

Singapore: Simplification of the regulatory process will prove to be the key to the growth of the pharma market in Japan...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
ULURU inks pact with Japanese medical firm

Texas-headquartered ULURU Inc has expanded its distribution network by entering into a cooperation agreement with Saraya...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
Japan approves generic drug for osteoporosis

Singapore: Actonel 75 mg tablets and Benet 75 mg tablets, a once-monthly formulation of risedronate sodium hydrate (gene...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Teva launches generic of cancer drug Temodar in US

Singapore: Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical and US-based Perrigo have launched generic version of cancer drug Temodar (t...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
Taiwan firm gets ANDA approval for generics of Pfizer's Procardia

Singapore: Taiwan's TWi Pharmaceuticals has recieved ANDA approval of the generic equivalent to Procardia XL (Nifedipine...

April 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Takeda gets Japanese NDA approval for obesity drug

Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical and Amsterdam-based Norgine has received Japanese Ministry of Health, Labo...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
MHRA issues import alert to Wockhardt's India plant

Singapore: About two months after the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) issued a Form 483 to Wockhardt for drug q...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Irish firm's track-&-trace system to curb fake drugs

Singapore: Horizon, an Irish engineerng consultancy firm, has completed testing of its new tracking system that aims at ...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mylan launches generic version of Sporanox

Singapore: Mylan Pharmaceuticals received final approval from the US FDA for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA)...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Daiichi Sankyo, Ranbaxy to leverage synergies in Thailand

Singapore: Japan's Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy Laboratories have plans to integrate their business operations in Thailand...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca, BMS gets FDA nod for diabetes drug

Singapore: AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb have recieved U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for diabe...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Ranbaxy advisory: All our products are safe and efficacious

New Delhi: Ranbaxy issued an advisory claiming that all their products in the Indian and global markets are safe and eff...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Rabies claims 100 lives annually in Vietnam: UN

Singapore: Vietnam has seen a substantial increase in the number of rabies fatalities from 34 deaths in 2003 to 131 deat...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Now Ranbaxy's Mohali unit under FDA scanner

Singapore: Merely a month after Indian drug major, Ranbaxy, pleaded guilty of having misled the USFDA investigations, se...

June 24, 2013 | Monday | News
Mundipharma, Shionogi tie up for pain treatment in Japan

Singapore: Mundipharma has entered a license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi for the exclusive rights to develop, ma...

November 22, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK files for approval on melanoma drug combo

Singapore: Britian's leading drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline has filed for US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) approval...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TB prevention faces gap of $1.6bn: WHO estimates

Singapore: WHO and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have stressed on strains of tuberculosis with resistance to...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Avanir Pharma settles patent litigation with Wockhardt

Singapore: US based Avanir Pharmaceuticals has entered into a settlement agreement with India's Wockhardt to resolve pen...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
TWi Pharma gets FDA nod for ADHD drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Pharmaceuticals has received tentative approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (AN...

May 15, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sandoz launches trial with Amgen biosimilar

Singapore: The generics unit of Novartis, Sandoz, has launched a late-stage trial with its biosimilar version of Amgen's...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | News
US company leverages on generics

Singapore: US based Par Pharmaceutical has entered into agreements with Watson Pharmaceuticals and Actavis Group to purc...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NATCO wins compulsory license for anti-cancer drug

In a landmark decision, Hyderabad-based NATCO Pharma has been granted compulsory license for Sorafenib Tosylate sold und...

March 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Mylan gets FDA nod for Thiamine Hydrochloride Injection

Singapore: Mylan Institutional business has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | News
Big pharma to drive R&D innovation with $4.4 bn

Singapore: The European Commission (EC) and other leading pharma giants have come together to invest $4.4 billion into p...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Multiple organzations join hands to curb fake drug business

Singapore: US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is gearing up its efforts to combat fake medicine circulating in the market...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Arvind sets up $42.37 mn plant top tap US market

Singapore: Indian pharmaceutical firm, Arvind Remedies has been gearing up to take the US market by storm. The company h...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | News

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