Pharmaceuticals
US nod for ‘breakthrough’ lung cancer drug
06 Oct 2015
Merkel pushes FTA as EU continues to block drug imports from India
06 Oct 2015
With the EU continuing to block exports of about 700 generic drugs from India, any resumption of FTA talks would only be a wasteful exercise
Youyou Tu's herbal therapy for malaria wins Nobel for medicine
06 Oct 2015
Youyou Tu of China, who discovered `artemisinin’, a novel herbal therapy for malaria, shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology with William C Campbell and Satoshi Omura who discovered new therapies for infections caused by roundworm parasites
Teva to buy Mexican drugmaker Rimsa for $2.3 bn
03 Oct 2015
With this acquisition, Teva will become a leading pharmaceutical company in Mexico, the second-largest market in Latin America and one of the top five emerging markets globally
US FDA rescinds approval for Sun Pharma's epilepsy drug Elepsia XR
26 Sep 2015
The US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has revoked an earlier approval to Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd to market its new drug for seizures
Turing vows to cut Daraprim drug price after furore over 5,000% hike
23 Sep 2015
The manufacturer was pilloried for jacking the price of Daraprim, a 62-year-old treatment for a dangerous parasitic infection, to $750 a pill from $13.50 after acquiring it
