Is diabetes a disease of the brain?

American Diabetes Association defines diabetes mellitus as a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia ...

August 14, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
BMS releases $3.5 mn fund for Hep B&C in India, China

Singapore: Bristol-Myers-Squibb Foundation has released nine new grants totaling to around $3.5 million towards hepatiti...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
SII seeks WHO consent to export flu vaccines

Singapore: Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied for permits to export flu vaccines produced using Australia's BioD...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Zydus Cadila launches indigenous diabetes drug

Singapore: Indian pharma company Cadila Healthcare that operates under the aegis of Zydus Group, has launched its patent...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Novartis' new injection counters tremors among MS patients

Singapore: More than 500 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and healthcare professionals in the US, the UK and mainland Eu...

April 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
'Cipla's investment will help create first biocluster in South Africa'

Singapore: Although currently small and focused on few diseases, the biosimilars opportunity is all set to grow, thanks ...

August 1, 2016 | Monday | Opinion
Mylan acquires Famy care's women healthcare business

Singapore: US-based drug giant Mylan recently announced the acquisition of Famy care's women healthcare business for $80...

February 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Unclear regulations dampen investment charm

Singapore: Asian companies continued to attract global pharma and biotech giants to invest in regional markets to establ...

April 1, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Indian pharma giants call upon US FDA for discussion

Singapore: The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) that represents the domestic drug manufacturing industry in the coun...

October 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Vaccine delivery technologies of the future

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that causes infections of the lower respiratory tract mostly in infants and...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Drug shortage forces FDA to approve cancer generic

Singapore: The US FDA has provided its approval for a generic version of cancer drug Doxil that has been facing shortage...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biocon's novel anti-psoriasis biotech drug Itolizumab released in India

After geting the regulatory approval in early 2013, Biocon, India's number two biotech company by revenues, released the...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Polio vac mandatory for travelers from 7 nations: India

Singapore: All travelers coming from these countries to India would need to take OPV six weeks before departure from the...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Cancer Genetics launches NGS service for cancer detection

Singapore: Cancer Genetics India (CG India) has launched a next-generation sequencing (NGS) based panel targeting solid ...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Biotech Companies hesitant to invest in rare disorders R&D

Singapore: "We have the talent and the money, however, it is not coordinated into actual deliverables. We have the large...

August 29, 2014 | Friday | News
Quintiles shuts down India phase I unit

Singapore: Leading global contract research giant Quintiles has cited a challenging external business environment as the...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Indian GM appraisal committee (GEAC) gets new claws

The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) of India was reconstituted on March 11, 2013, following which the ind...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Gangnam Style' singer Psy joins polio program

Singapore: Globally-recognized South Korean pop star Mr Psy has joined the growing roster of public figures and celebrit...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Significance of enzyme engineering in life science industry

Enzymes are seen as the major drug targets and are also being used as molecular machineries in the production of drug. T...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Britain's MHRA recalls 16 Wockhardt medicines

Singapore: UK's drug regulatory body, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recalled 16 drugs m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
PM: India's health expenditure will rise 3-fold

New Delhi: The government of India will enhance spending on health up to three times in the 12th Five Year Plan and will...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
BioAsia 2014: Innovation, collaboration identified as success keys

Hyderabad: With emphasis on cutting-edge innovations this year, BioAsia 2014 under the theme 'Innovate. Evolve.' kick-st...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
WHO demands transparency in clinical trial results

Singapore: In a study that analysed reports from large clinical trials (more than 500 participants), registered on Clini...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Shock waves for efficient drug delivery

A method of drug delivery that has been potentially successful is the use of shock waves for efficient drug delivery. D...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China eco-crimes unit gives updates on GSK sex scandal

Singapore: The economic crime investigation unit of China's Ministry of Public Security has now released a statement reg...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Indian govt to announce free glucose test for all

Singapore: The Indian government is considering to conduct free glucose test for the entire Indian population, as the di...

October 29, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Skin diseases to grow in India by 2015: Report

Singapore: The skin care segment has shown tremendous growth and emerged as a potential investment area for players in r...

May 6, 2014 | Tuesday | News
What can India do to streamline its regulatory processes?

India's growing ability to innovate and provide efficient and cost-effective solutions to various bioscience problems pl...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
AB Sciex: We will reshape India's analytical sector

AB Sciex, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, recently setup an analytical facility at Gurgaon, Ind...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Sigma-Aldrich Vetec lab reagents now in India

Singapore: Sigma-Aldrich has introduced its Vetec product line in India, which is a collection of 400 laboratory reagent...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Wockhardt restructures quality control team

Singapore: After being rapped by the US FDA and Indian drug regulator for lapses in good manufacturing practices (GMP), ...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Epistem's TB diagnostic test receives import license

Singapore: Epistem Holdings Plc (EHP), UK-based personalized medicine and biotechnology company, has announced that the ...

April 25, 2015 | Saturday | News
APAC coronary stent sector to touch $1.5 bn in 2015

Singapore: Asia-Pacific, including Japan, China, India, New Zealand, South Korea and Australia, is the fastest growing r...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Abivax initiates hepB vaccine trial in Asia

Singapore: ABIVAX, a clinical stage biotech company developing and commercialising anti-viral compounds and human vaccin...

March 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Zydus Cadila launches biosimilar of Humira

Singapore: Zydus Cadila has launched biosimilar of Adalimumab, used for the treatment of auto immune disorders. The drug...

December 13, 2014 | Saturday | News
MNCs on medtech growth trail

Industry forecasts by market analysts state that 80 percent of the multinational companies expect to gain a good share i...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cipla announces results for Q1 FY12

Mumbai: Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla reported a revenue growth of 23.6 percent to approximately $362 million* (Rs...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | Company results
Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novartis, Biological E to deliver affordable vaccines

Singapore: Novartis has entered into a development and licensing agreement with Biological E Limited (BioE), a biopharma...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Bharat Biotech launches first-ever typhoid conjugate vaccine

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech launched the world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine Typbar-TCV, a fourth ge...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Northeast India to become SE Asia's healthcare hub

Singapore: Recently Integrated Ventures, a health consulting firm, had organized a healthcare conference to generate awa...

December 1, 2014 | Monday | News
WHO recommends annual vaccination against flu

Singapore: World Health Organization recently said that annual vaccination is the most effective method to curb swine fl...

March 6, 2015 | Friday | News
The curtain raises on Bangalore India BIO

Bangalore: The Department of Information Technology, Bio-Technology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnatak...

January 31, 2014 | Friday | News
Lawyer files suit to shut Ranbaxy plants in India

New Delhi: An Indian lawyer has filed a lawsuit asking the country's Supreme Court to probe the pharmaceutical giant, it...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Scotland to seek collaborations at Bangalore India BIO

Since the last few years, the Scottish Development International (SDI) has been actively wooing Indian firms to set up t...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Vivo Bio Tech to breed Taconic mouse models in India

Bangalore: Taconic, a leading provider of life sciences solutions, and Vivo Bio Tech, a full-service contract research ...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pharmaceutical packaging industry to evolve in Asia: Analysis

Singapore: According to a study by Frost & Sullivan, United States, European Union, and Japan account for more than ...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
India slashes its healthcare spending by 20 percent

Singapore: After promising statements and assurances to transform the healthcare scenario of India, the Government led b...

December 24, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Sales is not a poorer cousin of marketing'

Whenever I hear a conversation around career tracks in the life sciences, the topics that seem to gravitate around resea...

February 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Opinion
Medtronic tie-up with CARE hospitals

Singapore: Medtronic has announced a strategic partnership with CARE Hospitals to set up Heart Failure (HF) clinics for ...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | News
India to regulate its Ayurveda medicines

Singapore: The Indian Central Government is planning to create a strategy to standardize and devise a new regulatory str...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | News
Copper prevents contamination in lifescience devices

Singapore: A recent study conducted at Porton Down, England, by the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR) ...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Network Verfication Challenge gains momentum

Singapore: Scientific consensus in the Network Verification Challenge, conducted in Spain from 15-18 June 2015, has exhi...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Lupin launches Zaxine in Canada

Singapore: Lupin announced that its Canadian subsidiary, Lupin Pharma Canada (collectively Lupin) has launched its firs...

April 26, 2015 | Sunday | News
Strides receives FDA nod for skin disease drug

Singapore: Bangalore-based Strides Arcolab has received regulatory approval for its skin disease drug Methoxsalen. The d...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
India to get Hewlett-Packard health cloud centers

Bangalore: Hewlett-Packard (HP) and non-government organization (NGO), Share India, have signed a memorandum of understa...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Dr S Natesh: Indian R&D is excellent despite funding crunch

The Indian biotech industry has done remarkably well so far. The inventiveness and efficiency of the industry has contri...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
Sabin institute convenes scientists to discuss typhoid vaccine

Singapore: Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will convene scientists, resea...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NIH gets candid on Indian clinical trial cancellations

Singapore: Days after cancelling around 40 ongoing clinical trials in India, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
India's anti-malaria drug banned in Ghana

Singapore: The US drug regulatory body, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the distribution of Gsunate Pl...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
Nepal agri R&D is plagued with funding crunch

The physio-geographical location of Nepal has always favored agriculture as its main business. The country is highly dep...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
US FDA imposes import alert on Ranbaxy drugs

Singapore: The US FDA has issued an alert on import of Ranbaxy Laboratories drug products that are manufactured at its ...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Apollo Pharmacy cautions against Ranbaxy drugs' use

New Delhi: Spelling further problems for India's pharma giant Ranbaxy and its Japanese owners Daiichi Sankyo, Apollo Pha...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Introduction to digital health

The twentieth century was very typical and traditional. Though newer innovations ranging from penicillin and other drugs...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | Opinion
UK-India study: Arsenic in rice cause genetic damage

Bangalore: Scientists at the University of Manchester in collaboration with CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
India's BioTech industry reacts to Union Budget 2014

India's BioTech industry reacts to the country's Union Budget 2014...

July 12, 2014 | Saturday | News
Tobacco-use study reveals frightening data

Singapore: The world's largest tobacco use survey, titled 'The Global Adult Tobacco Survey', which has been published in...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
Mitra Biotech personalizes treatment for cancer

With medicine taking great leaps due to evolving drug discovery process, today the diagnosis of cancer is promptly follo...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Australian Life Sciences & Health Care Mission visiting lndia

Singapore: A 12 member Australian Life sciences & Health care delegation is visiting India from 15 to 19 September t...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca's gout drug completes Phase III trials

Singapore: AstraZeneca's drug candidate Lesinurd has successfully finished Phase III trials, as per reports. Three Phas...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | News
Bacterial protein azurin has anti-cancer potential

New Delhi: A relatively new potential anti-cancer agent in form of azurin, a bacterial protein called arsenate reductase...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
India's Piramal acquires Coldstream Lab in US

Singapore: India's pharmaceutical company, Piramal Enterprises, has acquired contract development and manufacturing orga...

January 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
India to lead APAC non-vascular stents market by 2021

Singapore: According to a recent study by research and consulting firm GlobalData, the APAC non-vascular stents market c...

April 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Comply or face action: US FDA tells Indian drugmakers

Singapore: With increasing number of non-compliance issues being logged against Indian drugmakers by the US FDA, this ti...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
Indians in Liberia donate $200,000 towards Ebola relief

Singapore: Nearly 2000 Indians residing in Liberia have congregated to help African health ministry fight the deadly Ebo...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Tobacco prevalence in Asia raising death toll

Singapore: According to a study in PLOS Medicine, by Prof Wei Zheng, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbil...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
US FDA seals pharma unit of XL Orthomed in India

Singapore: The US FDA has sealed one of the manufacturing units owned by Indian company, XL Orthomed. The Sarai Khawaja...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
GSK's Rs 6,400 cr investment approved by FIPB

Singapore: In what is being dubbed as the highest investment ever in the Indian pharma sector, the country's Foreign Inv...

January 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Serum Institute to expand India operations

Singapore: Indian vaccines major, Serum Institute is expanding its network in India by setting up a new manufacturing pl...

October 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
10,194 passengers screened for Ebola since 10 Aug

Singapore: Since its inception on August 10, 2014, about 10,194 health cards of passengers from Ebola Virus Disease affe...

August 22, 2014 | Friday | News
Asia calls for urgency in typhoid vaccine

Singapore: The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) called on policymakers and ministries of health across Asia to make typho...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Biosafe to expand stem cell banking business in India

Singapore: Biosafe, which is a Switzerland-based manufacturer of automated cell processing systems, partnered with Indi...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Point-of-care diagnostics is revolutionary

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out a new grant of $31 million to fund innovation in point-of-ca...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Max Neeman reaches key milestone in services

Bangalore: Max Neeman International announced that they have provided data management services to over 60 countries and ...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ampio takes drug candidate to preclinical stage

Singapore: Ampio Pharmaceuticals has taken its candidate NCE001 from its proprietary methylphenidate derivatives family ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Indo-Japan ties on the rise

The last five years have witnessed many collaborative deals between bioscience organizations in India and Japan. The ado...

February 18, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Srinubabu Gedela is FABA vice president

Hyderabad: Mr Srinubabu Gedela, chairman and chief executive officer of OMICS Group, has been elected as vice president ...

October 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
US CRO appoints new Asia director

Singapore: US-based Harlan Laboratories, a leading contract research organization (CRO) and research models and service...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Epirus, Ranbaxy launch biosimilar in India

Singapore: Epirus Biopharmaceuticals in cooperation with Ranbaxy has launched their first biosimilar product, Infimab, a...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Dr. Reddy's launches generic Finasteride

Hyderabad: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched Finasteride tablets (1 mg), a bioequivalent generic version of Propeci...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Forbes 50 list features only 2 Asian pharma firms

Singapore: India's Sun Pharmaceuticals and Australia's CSL are the only two drugmakers that have been featured in the Fo...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
145 Indians from Ebola-hit nations return

Singapore: The Indian Health Ministry has confirmed that 145 Indians from Ebola affected countries had arrived in India ...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
Life Technologies launches gene editing products

Singapore: To expand its portfolio in molecular biology, Life technologies has launched new GeneArt CRISPR products. The...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Indian MedTech Industry to touch $50 bn: Report

Singapore: A report by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) highlighted that the Indian medical technology industr...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
Indian state of MP to get tech know-how from China

Singapore: The Madhya Pradesh State Livelihood Forum, India, and Indo-China Economic and Culture Council are goignt o pa...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
Patents rights in India unreasonably denied: US Pharma

Singapore: Expressing grave concern over the deteriorating intellectual property environment in India, the Pharmaceutica...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Sun Pharma cancer drug to address shortage

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic version of the cancer drug Doxil (doxorubi...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News

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