Pharmaceuticals
Superbugs may be spreading faster than thought: study
By By Jagdeep Worah | 20 Jan 2017
A family of superbugs known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE may be spreading more widely than previously thought – and India is notorious for this type of bacteria. By Jagdeep Worah
Mallinckrodt to pay $100 mn to settle 'price-gouging' charges
20 Jan 2017
The US regulator says that Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt bought in 2014, illegally raised the price of its best-selling drug Acthar by 85,000 per cent and bought the rights to a cheaper competing drug to keep it out of the US market
Japan’s Takeda to buy US cancer drug maker Ariad for $5.20 bn
10 Jan 2017
The deal will give Takeda two innovative precision drugs, including a leukemia drug with sales of $170-180 million last year, and Brigatinib, which could offset any loss of sales due to generic competition to its top-selling blood cancer drug Velcade
