Jubilant Life arm inks pact to acquire Inipharm Inc for around USD 28.5 mn
NEW DELHI: Drug firm Jubilant Life Sciences Thursday said its subsidiary Drug Discovery and Development Solutions Ltd (DDDSL) Singapore has entered into an agreement to acquire 10 per cent stake…
Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics
NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan…
FDA approves first biosimilar to Roche cancer drug Rituxan
Celltrion Inc’s Truxima on Wednesday became the first biosimilar to Roche Holding AG’s $7-billion-per-year cancer drug Rituxan to be approved in the United States to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The approval…
Govt Plans Database Of Drugs To Prevent Use Of Similar Brand Names
New Delhi : The government is considering a databank for all medicine brands to prevent pharmaceutical companies from using the same or similar looking and sounding brand names for drugs, especially…
Biotech company Moderna expects to raise up to $521.7 mln in IPO
Biotech company Moderna Inc said on Wednesday it expected to raise up to $521.7 million in its initial public offering, valuing the company at about $7.8 billion at the top…
Govt To Bring Out Norms For Collecting Drug-Resistant Microbes To Facilitate Research
New Delhi: The Central government is working on an extensive protocol to pinpoint multidrug-resistant microbes and will soon come out with a set of guidelines for clinicians and microbiologists to facilitate…
Chandigarh: Pharma institute comes a long way from Lahore
CHANDIGARH: At the start of the platinum-jubilee celebrations of the Panjab University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) on Monday here, its entire journey from 1944 in Lahore to 2018 in…
Alembic Pharma gets USFDA nod for insomnia treatment drug
New Delhi: Drug firm Alembic Pharmaceuticals has received approval from the US health regulator for Temazepam capsules, used for treatment of insomnia. The company has got approval from the US…
Severe Shortage Of Antibiotic Eye Drops & Vitamin C Tablets Across India
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority of India’s (NPPA) initiative to bring drugs under price control, thus making them affordable to all, seems to have backfired as chemists from across the…
Hospital To Pay ₹ 21 Lakh For Medical Negligence
New Delhi: A decade after his wife died due to medical complications, a man has won his battle with a city hospital for negligence. Slapping G M Modi Hospital with…
