Pharmaceuticals
Govt panel recommends cap on profits to control drug prices
09 Mar 2016
The committee set up by the Department of Pharmaceuticals has recommended capping of trade margins of costly drugs at 35 per cent of maximum retail price
End-game for dengue as Indian scientists develop herbal remedy
09 Mar 2016
Indian scientists have developed an effective herbal medicine for the treatment of dengue, in what could be a potent remedy to the disease that affects millions of people within the country and across the world
Whistleblower Dinesh Thakur takes pharma regulators to court
07 Mar 2016
Dinesh Thakur exposed how India's then largest drugmaker and his former employer, Ranbaxy Laboratories, failed to conduct proper safety and quality tests on drugs and lied to regulators about its procedures
Drug firms ripping off patients with fixed doses?
04 Mar 2016
The US federal Medicare programme and private health insurers waste nearly $3 billion every year buying cancer medicines that are thrown out because many drug makers distribute the drugs only in vials that hold too much for most patients, a group of cancer researchers has found
Allergen deal to help Pfizer save $35 bn in annual taxes: report
26 Feb 2016
The Pfizer-Allergen deal is the largest inversion ever, which would potentially lower the merged entity's annual tax bill by $35 billion in the United States
