Pharmaceuticals
Spread of drug-resistant malaria bug should worry India: expert
04 Feb 2017
Detection of malaria parasites resistant to the frontline artemisinin (ART) combination therapy in some south Asian countries should worry India, Govindarajan Padmanabhan, a top biochemist and malaria researcher at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, has warned
Pfizer explores sale of some treatment drugs worth over $2 bn
03 Feb 2017
As a part of its plan to raise cash and streamline its portfolio, Pfizer will sell its cardiology, urology and primary care treatment drugs
Trump tells drug makers to get prices down
01 Feb 2017
Antibiotics, not dirty hospitals, the main cause of C. difficile epidemic
25 Jan 2017
Overuse of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin led to the outbreak of severe diarrhoea caused by C. difficile that hit headlines from 2006 onwards. The outbreak was stopped by substantially reducing use of ciprofloxacin and related antibiotics
