Eisai receives positive CHMP opinion on new indication for anticancer agent

Singapore: Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that its European regional headquarters Eisai Europe Ltd. has received a positive o...

July 26, 2016 | Tuesday | News
St. Jude launches cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator

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

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Mallinckrodt's pharmaceutical gas approved in Australia and Japan

Tokyo: United Kingdom's Mallinckrodt plc has announced that INOmax (nitric oxide) for inhalation has received regulat...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Thailand, Japan to develop medical robots

Singapore: Thailand Center of Excellence for lifesciences has signed a pact with Mahidol University's Faculty of Enginee...

February 13, 2015 | Friday | News
NDA approval for obesity drug Oblean in Japan

Singapore: Netherlands-based Norgine BV and Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical have announced the approval of the ...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan's PeptiDream partners with Genentech

Singapore: PeptiDream, Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company, has entered into a multi-target discovery and optimization...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo files NDA for Prasugrel in Japan

Singapore: Japanese drug major Daiichi Sankyo submitted a New Drug Application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welf...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit gathers veterans to share regulatory challenges

Singapore: 5th Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2015, the flagship event of Shimadzu that provides a platform for the globa...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Eisai buys Chinese Generics Company Liaoning TianYi

Singapore: Eisai announced that regarding the acquisition of Chinese generic pharmaceutical company Liaoning TianYi Biol...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
HMT opens office in US

Singapore: Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT), the leading provider of capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (...

November 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aricept leads Japan pharma market with $1.81 bn

The top 10 pharmaceutical products being sold in the Japanese market, by both local and foreign players, contribute to a...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Japan nods Pfizer arthritis drug Xeljanz

Singapore: Pfizer's Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) has received approval for the treatment of adults with rheumatoid arth...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
R-Tech Ueno, Hokkaido University to co-develop diabetic intervention

Singapore: JASDAQ-listed R-Tech Ueno has decided to conduct collaborative research with a group led by professor Susumu ...

May 19, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiho establishes Taiho Ventures to foster oncology biotech start-ups

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (TPC), a full-fledged oncology pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, has establishe...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Amgen,Astellas announce the launch of Repatha in Japan

Singapore: Japanese pharma giant Amgen Astellas BioPharma and Astellas Pharma recently announced the launch of their pro...

April 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
Japan driving innovation in drug delivery devices

Within the Asia-Pacific region, Japan has maintained its leadership role as the largest pharmaceutical market, second on...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Cubist gets right to Astellas' ceftolozane

Singapore: Cubist Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma entered into an agreement under which Cubist will obtain the right...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with Nanotherapeutics to expand influenza vaccine program

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has recieved expanded commercialization and technology access rights related to Nanothe...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo's tumor treatment gets Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Tokyo: Daiichi Sankyo Inc and Plexxikon Inc, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, has announced that the US Food and Dr...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
MIT, Kyoto researchers invent RNA-based gene circuits

Tokyo: A joint collaboration between the researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Center fo...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan creates sperm bank for endangered species

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Laboratory Animals, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, hav...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda close to releasing Norovirus vaccine

Singapore: Japan's drug major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that they are set to finish the early stage human studies o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Challenges in mHealth integration'

Singapore: Medidata Solutions is a provider of cloud computing-based solutions for clinical development process to impro...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
TriReme catheter gets approval in Japan

Singapore: TriReme Medical's Japanese partner Century Medical has received Shonin approval, the approval to market in Ja...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News