Smartphones preferred channel for healthcare'

Singapore: Smart phones are the preferred tool for patient's engagement and communication with their healthcare provider...

July 6, 2014 | Sunday | Analysis
St. Jude Medical launches technology to treat heart failure in India

Bangalore: St. Jude Medical, a global medical device company, has launched its Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization th...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
GSK to freeze vaccine prices for GAVI Alliance

Bangalore: GSK announced that it will freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that gra...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
AIDS 2014: India HIV Alliance raises human rights issue

Singapore: At the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) being held in Melbourne from July 20th-25th, India HIV/...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Video consent to be mandatory for CROs in India

New Delhi: The Indian health ministry will soon amend the Schedule Y of Drugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Rules to make a pr...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
India seeks clear regulations on diagnostic kits

A year back, a couple of days after India's finance minister presented the budget, a renowned expert from the diagnostic...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Dr Reddy's launches Pamorelin LA in India

Singapore: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched Pamorelin LA in India for the treatment of locally advanced or metasta...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Brazil, Mexico dengue vaccine market to grow'

Singapore: While Sanofi has progressed to phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine and is expecting to launch it...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Strand to license urine test, assay by Trovagene

Singapore: Trovagene, a developer of trans-renal molecular diagnostics, and Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences have en...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Suven Life Sciences secures four patents for NCEs

Bangalore: Suven Life Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Aurobindo Pharma sets eyes on CRAMS

Aurobindo Pharma, a knowledge driven pharmaceutical company with a strong focus on research and development (R&D), m...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Baxter recalls four lots of IV solutions

Singapore: Baxter is subjected to recall four lots of intravenous (IV) solutions to the hospital/user level that have be...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Cipla malaria drug gets WHO pre-qualification

Mumbai: Cipla along with the non-profit R&D organization, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), revealed t...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
VIT University students to benefit from MoU

Bangalore: The Center for Bio Separations Technology (CBST), VIT University and BIA Separations have signed a memorandum...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
ICRISAT scientist gets international crop science award

Bangalore: Dr CL Laxmipathi Gowda, director, grain legumes research program, International Crops Research Institute for ...

October 26, 2012 | Friday | News
Indian Parliamentary committee: Ban all GM crop trials

August 9, 2012 proved to be a day of setback for GM crops in India with two game changing developments concerning GM tec...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Wockhardt launches generic of anti-ulcer drug Prevacid

Singapore: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt received final approval from the US FDA for marketing 15mg a...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
'Indian regulatory system very hierarchical'

Singapore: In an effort to smoothen out the understanding of global regulations amongst Indian companies, Ms Carolyn Bee...

April 25, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Cipla and Roche to mediate in patent case

Singapore: After fighting a long and bitter patent battle in India, Swiss innovator firm Hoffman La Roche and Indian gen...

July 12, 2014 | Saturday | Regulatory
Top 20: INDIA - Marginal growth

India's bioscience success story received a jolt in 2013 due to regulatory and pricing issues. The sector grew only b...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
India approved 26 drugs without clinical trials

New Delhi: Officials in the Indian health ministry have admitted that about 26 new drug molecules were given approval si...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy delivers strong result in Q3'12

New Delhi: India-based Ranbaxy, a subsidiary of Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo, delivered strong overall business performa...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | Company results
Zydus initiates Ph III trial of Lipaglyn for lipodystrophy

Singapore: India based drug company, Zydus, has initiated Phase III trials of Lipaglyn (Saroglitazar) to evaluate its sa...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
Nova buys Mazor's Renaissance surgical robot

New Delhi: Nova Medical Center, a leading short-stay surgical chain in India, placed an order for a Mazor Robotics' Rena...

May 6, 2013 | Monday | News
SIRO wins Frost & Sullivan CRO award

Mumbai: SIRO Clinpharm has been awarded the Indian Clinical Research Organization of the Year 2012 Award by Frost & ...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Mobile health market to reach $58 bn by 2020: Study

Singapore: Global mobile health (mHealth) market was valued at $6.7 billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach $8.3 billi...

November 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Venus wins manufacturing leadership award 2012

Bangalore: Indian firm Venus Remedies has won Manufacturing Leadership Award for its world-class manufacturing and opera...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
India leverages on big pharma's 'profit together' model

Charles Darwin had pointed out that "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collab...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Israel Makov is new Sun Pharma chairman

Singapore: The Board of Directors of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries appointed Mr Israel Makov as chairman of the Board. M...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Renu Swarup: Indian bioscience to reach $100bn by 2025

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has, since its inception in 1986, been playing an important catalytic role in prom...

May 20, 2013 | Monday | Opinion
Taconic VP: Our animal models fuel global R&D

Today's modern researchers often depend on sophisticated tools for their scientific endeavors. One such tools that is fr...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Glenmark's MAb drug enters human trials

Singapore: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a research-driven, global integrated pharmaceutical company announced that its nove...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Asia leverages on the biologics opportunity

Many companies in India, China and to an extent Korea have established a strong position in contract manufacturing of ac...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Shridhar Narayanan to lead AstraZeneca research in Bangalore

Bangalore: AstraZeneca has appointed Dr Shridhar Narayanan to the position of VP and head, infection science, Bangalore,...

November 15, 2012 | Thursday | News
Waters celebrates silver jubilee in India

Bangalore: Waters India, a fully owned subsidiary of Waters in the US, is celebrating silver jubilee anniversary of its ...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
GMP violation leads US FDA to warn two Indian firms

Singapore: Indian drug makers Promed Exports and Post Chemicals have been issued a warning letter from US FDA for violat...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Novartis pledges to eliminate leprosy

Singapore: Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) has launched a new leprosy strategy focused on interru...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
MenAfriVac wins BioSpectrum product award for fight against meningitis

Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a cause of the contagious bacterial meningitis that can lead to life-threateni...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
IDMA: Lift excise duty on R&D and samples

Singapore: The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) has sent a memorandum to the country's Finance Ministry req...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Arvind Remedies' net profit up by 70%

Chennai: Arvind Remedies (ARL), a leading producer of branded and generic pharmaceutical products revealed its financia...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Milestones in drug delivery technology in Asia

In 2007, Dabur Pharma, one of India's leading manufacturers of anti-cancer drugs, launched Nanoxel, a novel drug deliver...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India pledges unabridged eradication of Encephalitis

Singapore: The recent outbreak of Encephalitis in India has claimed 102 children in the past 14 days. Majority of the ca...

June 19, 2014 | Thursday | News
How to bridge the gap in Bt cotton cultivation

To keep pace with the growth story in cotton cultivation, the government needs to do more. New technologies, more stress...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
DST: We're India's largest life science player

India's Department of Science and Technology (DST), which was established in May 1971 with the objective of promoting ne...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Mr Denzil Benjamin, ICON: New guidelines by India's CDSCO will re-define the industry in 2013

Adapting technology and tools to address the issues of increasing research and development (R&D) costs, slow results...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
India strengthens clinical trial regulations

In a bid to strengthen the regulation and monitoring of clinical trials in the country, the Indian government has announ...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
GE launches system to treat infant jaundice

Bangalore: Wipro GE Healthcare, GE Healthcare's business arm in India, introduced its Lullaby LED Phototherapy System to...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
ClearPath aligner makes smiles brighter

Singapore: Be it the low cost benefit or the vast gene pool, the Asian market has for many years been able to, lure the ...

March 26, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Glass packaging poses lowest toxicity hazard

Bangalore: The green potential of glass as a packaging medium has the lowest hazard in Human Toxicity Potential (HTP: to...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | News
To stop drug production, inform 6 months in prior'

New Delhi: The Indian Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013 highlighted that pharma companies need to issue a public noti...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | News
India revises price of 154 drug formulations

New Delhi: In a move seen to benefit millions of people suffering from various ailments, the National Pharmaceutical Pri...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Lupin gets FDA approval to market Lutera

Singapore: Pharma major Lupin has received final approval for its Levonorgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets USP, 0.1...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Samsung's 5D technology ultrasound reaches India

Singapore: Leading global technology company, Samsung Electronics, a global leader in technology, has launched the UGEO ...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
How Sanofi is using social media for its vaccines

Mumbai: Marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry have been unlike any other sector, due to the sensitive and ...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
GSK seeks FIPB nod to hike stake in India

Singapore: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has approached the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to hike stake ...

January 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Dr. Reddy's makes a mark in the US generics market

Striking profit on a high note, Dr. Reddy's crossed $1.5 billion worth of business in 2012, marking a growth of 22 per...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
EBTC and ABLE sign memorandum of cooperation in Bangalore

Bangalore: The European Business and Technology Center (EBTC), an initiative co-funded by the European Union (EU), and c...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Piramal BST-CarGel shows positive results

Bangalore: Piramal Healthcare Bio-Orthopaedics, a division of Piramal Healthcare, has received positive data from their ...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Non-small cell lung cancer therapeutics APAC market to touch $2.9 bn by 2019'

Singapore: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, Ch...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
DHRC holds event to address breast cancer concern

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed that the incidence of breast cancer has nearly do...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
Medical device packaging demand to exceed $25.7 billion in 2017

Singapore: Western Europe, the US and Japan will continue to account for almost 60 percent of the total market, accordin...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Pharma FDI cap, right move for India

India's pharma industry, mainly comprising generics has got a breather. The government in India has decided to cap brown...

July 31, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Orchid sells penicillin business to Hospira

Bangalore: Chennai-based global pharma major Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals has entered into an agreement with U...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Biotech solutions for the modern world

Biotechnology has helped Jiangxi Copper, China's largest producer of copper, remove tons of copper from waste water at i...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Fight between local and global CROs intensifies

Mr Malcolm Burgess relocated to Hong Kong in 2011 to take up the role of executive vice president of ICON with special r...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
FDA nod for Lupin's angina generic Ranolazine

Mumbai: Lupin Phamaceuticals has received final approval for its Ranolazine extended-release tablets, 500 mg and 1000 mg...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
'In Sweden scientists own their innovations'

Singapore: The cooperation in S&T especially the business opportunities in Life Science space, received a boost with...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
eHealth Access redefines healthcare in India

India-based start-up, eHealth Access (formely known as DialurDoctor) was established in the city of Hyderabad in 2010. S...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
World bank appreciates India's agri power

Singapore: While addressing the gathering at NAIP Agri Innovation Conclave 2014 as chief guest, Mr Onno Ruhl, country di...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy to set up $40 mn facility in Malaysia

Singapore: Malaysia has given approval to India-based Ranbaxy to set up a Greenfield manufacturing facility in the count...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Personalized medicine picks up pace in India

Thanks to the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists now have a set of tools that can be readily ...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Glenmark signs agreement with Forest Labs

Mumbai: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a leading Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, has entered into a collaboratio...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
BIO urges India to respect intellectual property

Mumbai: The 3rd annual BIO India conference, organized by Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in partnership with ...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
DRL launches Alchemia thrombosis generic in India

Singapore: Alchemia's commercialization partner Dr Reddy's Laboratories has launched Alchemia's FDA approved generic an...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics enters India

Singapore: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics is taking initiative to develop local partnerships with leading univ...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Phosphagenics licenses antibody product to Agila

Bangalore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has licensed an injectable antibiotic product, har...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Medtech to get sub-category in Indian pharma norms

New Delhi: India is proposing to create a sub category for medical equipment and devices such as implants and sutures, u...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
First-of-its-kind cardiac multi-surgery in India

Bangalore: Chennai-based MIOT Hospitals successful performed a surgery on a 14-year-old boy from Mumbai, who was sufferi...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | News
DuBiotech to join hands with India drug manufacturers' body

Bangalore: Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park (DuBiotech) is planning to enter into a memorandum of understanding wit...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | News
India, Russia to cooperate on biotech research

Singapore: The joint research proposal in the area of biotechnology under the programme of cooperation (PoC) is between ...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
IBA Molecular, Piramal Imaging sign agreement

Singapore: IBA Molecular and Piramal Imaging entered an agreement whereby IBA will manufacture and distribute 18F-Florbe...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Glenmark gets favorable judgment in case against Napo

Bangalore: The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) has ruled in favor of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on the ...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | News
SunTech Medical and PRA sign agreement

Singapore: The SunTech Medical Oscar 2 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) system has been selected by PRA for u...

January 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sun Pharma arm gets FDA clearance for facilities in the US

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical arm Caraco has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to resume op...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | News
WHO praises Indian TB control efforts

New Delhi: The fifth Government of India-WHO joint monitoring mission (JMM) of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aijaz Tobaccowalla named new MD of Pfizer India

Mumbai: Pfizer has appointed Mr Aijaz Tobaccowalla as its managing director in India. He will succeed Mr Kewal Handa, w...

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
Cancer kills Indian drug pioneer, Anji Reddy, at 72

Bangalore: Dr Kallam Anji Reddy, the founder and chairman of the $2 billion Indian pharma giant, Dr Reddy's Laboratories...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Indian Pharma furious over price control order

Singapore: The NPPA has identified more drugs used in the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetics and as...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
Gene-tweaking key to new vaccines

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an institute that draws national attention on developing and app...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Cleaver Scientific to strengthen position in India

UK-based Cleaver Scientific is an ISO 9001:2000 approved company that specializes in manufacturing and distributing elec...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Agila Malaysia to be housed in Bio-XCell

Bangalore: Malaysian Bio-XCell and Strides Acrolab's Malaysian subsidiary, Agila Biotech Malaysia, have sealed a $34.4 m...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Actis investing $48 mn in Symbiotec Pharmalab

Singapore: India's specialist producer of steroid-hormone API, Symbiotec Pharmalab is said to be receiving an investment...

October 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Abbott Laboratories unveils strategy for India

Singapore: Pharma major Abbott Laboratories has unveiled its strategy for the Indian market, claiming that it will push ...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sun Pharma rises from the ashes of Ranbaxy as global generics powerhouse

For more than four decades the Ranbaxy star shined brightly over India's pharma landscape and also in the global generic...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Opinion
India defines pathway for biosimilars development

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July 6, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Sun's import ban response lacks enough action'

Singapore: The US drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration said in a warning letter that Sun Pharmaceutical Indu...

May 22, 2014 | Thursday | News
Mylan launches operations in India with 18 ARV products

Bangalore: Mylan Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Mylan, has commenced commercial operations in India, starting with the...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aurobindo Pharma revamps strategy to accelerate growth

Aurobindo Pharma, ranked among the top pharmaceutical company in India, clocked $1 billion revenue in 2012. Aurobindo ...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Evolva, Roquette reach milestone in food product R&D

Bangalore: France-based Roquette Frères and India-based Evolva achieved the milestone in their collaboration in the d...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Video message from women leaders in bioscience

We come across several women in the field of biosciences at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. Howev...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers

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