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