Eisai divests rights for Glidael Wafer to Arbor

Singapore: Eisai's US subsidiary has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to divest US rights for its G...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Astellas announces global team promotions

Singapore: Astellas Pharma Global Development (APGD), a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan has ann...

October 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Handheld hemoglobin testing device wins coveted Stevie award

Singapore: Masimo announced that its Pronto-7 handheld noninvasive hemoglobin, arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2), pul...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Otsuka buys Avanir pharmaceuticals for $3.5bn

Singapore: The Japanese drug maker Otsuka Pharmaceuticals announced the acquisition of Avanir pharmaceuticals for $3.5 b...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Abbott partners with Japan's Sekisui

Singapore: Abbott Laboratories has inked a pact with Japan's Sekisui to offer coagulation testing solutions for laborato...

May 22, 2015 | Friday | News
One Lambda partners with GenoDive

Singapore: One Lambda, a Thermo Fischer scientific brand announced that it has inked a pact with Japan-based GenoDive Ph...

October 10, 2014 | Friday | News
Japan leukemia market to grow to $565mn in 2022

Singapore: A new study by research and consulting firm GlobalData, highlighted that Japan's chronic myeloid leukemia (CM...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Suven secures three product patents for their NCEs in Canada, Japan and Korea

Suven Life Sciences Ltd, headquartered in Hyderabad, India, secured product patents from Canada, Japan and Korea corresp...

March 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
RetroNectin now available for clinical research

Singapore: In an effort to aid progress in gene therapy clinical research, representatives of Clontech Laboratories and ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Influenza can get worse with every season

Singapore: Acute viral respiratory infection influenza, or flu, strikes every winter, and several nations are preparing ...

October 23, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo seeks approval for TB drug in Japan

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's generic subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (...

October 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Daiichi accuses Singh brothers of concealing facts

Singapore: The Japanese owners of Ranbaxy Laboratories, drug major Daiichi Sankyo has accused the Singh brothers, former...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan worried as Dengue infections rise

Singapore: Japan has confirmed a rise in dengue fever cases and the country's health ministry has said that with the rec...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
Alexion files NDA in Japan for Asfotase Alfa

Singapore: Alexion pharma has announced the submission of New Drug Application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health,...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda's multiple myeloma drug meets primary endpoints

Singapore: Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the randomized, double-blind, placebo-...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japanese pharma market to be $80 bn by 2020: Analyst

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical market value is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.3 percent fro...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | Analysis
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