Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer’s anti-smoking drug Chantix to carry black-box waning till availability of study data
17 Oct 2014
AbbVie to reconsider $55-bn Shire deal
15 Oct 2014
AbbVie, the maker of top-selling arthritis drug Humira, plans to buy Shire to lower its US tax burden by moving its tax base to Ireland and to diversify its product line-up
Suven Life secures product patent in S Korea, US
13 Oct 2014
Valeant Pharmaceuticals plans to raise bid for Allergan
08 Oct 2014
Valeant is taking its takeover offer close to a December shareholder meeting where some of Allergan’s directors face removal
Price cap on 108 “non-essential” drugs lifted as govt reverses stance
23 Sep 2014
Drug firms are now expected to jack up prices of a range of drugs used in the treatment of diseases from diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases to HIV/AIDS
Canadian regulator asks Ipca to stop API exports
22 Sep 2014
Indian Pharma regulator cuts prices of 43 drug formulations
19 Sep 2014
The price cuts will make formulations used to treat infections and gastro intestinal disorders, a few vaccines, and commonly used antibiotics such as Ciprofloxacin HCl, Cloxacillin and Rifampicin, cheaper by up to 50 per cent
