Fixed-dose combinations are medicines that come mixed in a certain proportion.
A large number of American companies like Google, Uber and IBM are offering their resources to help India successfully fight the battle against the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Friday said that it has received the US Food and Drug Administration's nod to market a generic version of alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug, in the US market.
US-based Eli Lilly has planned to continue its focus on innovation-driven products, instead of opening up to opportunities in off-patent generic drugs, being tapped by its larger competitors like GSK and Pfizer.
At least a dozen global firms, including Roche, Pfizer and Astra Zeneca got a nod from the Drugs Controller General of India to conduct over 50 clinical trials on Indian volunteers this month, official data reveals. The global clinical research outsourcing market is projected to touch $23 billion by 2011, with consultancy firm KPMG estimating that India will corner 15 per cent of this in two years.
The Clinical Research sector is emerging as an attractive option for science graduates, doctors, management/ IT professionals, alike.
Speaking in favour of the US forging collaborations with Indian firms and academic institutes in the field of biopharma and healthcare sector, Pfizer President (Global R&D) Martin Mackay said not only there is a great willingness to collaborate in India, there is a great ability of Indian companies to adapt to western needs. India can be a major centre for innovation globally said Joe Smith, vice-president at Johnson & Johnson.
The award was presented by Dr Martin Mackay, pesident Global R&D, Pfizer and Karun Rishi, president, USA-India Chamber of Commerce, at a function in Boston recently, according to a release by the chamber.
Even today, it can be tough for women in the executive ranks.
A dipstick survey covering 30 villages in Rajasthan threw up some worrisome numbers. About 250 children missed their regular vaccination schedule in March alone. These numbers are alarming, since India has around 600,000 villages according to the 2011 census. Sohini Das reports.
It plans to make Hyderabad as its back office hub for data management in clinical research and financial service segments. Novartis is putting infrastructure to put all these people in one place and the centre is expected to turn operational next year. It will be the back office for Novartis' pharmaceutical operations and will find many PhDs and post-graduates working there, said Jurgen Brokatzky-Geiger, head (human resources), Novartis.
'The government had a vaccine from January.' 'The government should have given the vaccine to all population above the age of 45, right from the start.' 'Each state has its own problems, but as far as vaccine coverage in India is concerned, there have been mistakes.'
Insurance companies, which are major shareholders in the country's biggest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, said they will sell part of their stake in the company to the highest bidder.
India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, which is fighting a patent battle with the world's largest drug maker Pfizer on the cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor in about 18 countries, got a mixed verdict from the Full Court of Federal Court of Australia.
A probe finds several pharma majors in breach of the law; and in turn they blame the government.
Voveran, Novartis India's flagship pain killer medicine, has become the largest selling domestic drug with sales of more than Rs 11 crore (Rs 110 million) in March 2008, displacing Pfizer India's cough and cold syrup Corex, which had sales of Rs 10 crore (Rs 100 million). Cipla, on the other hand, maintained its leadership position as the largest domestic pharmaceutical company edging out Ranbaxy Laboratories with a market share of 5.24 per cent.
Several companies, including Indian units of Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer Inc, and domestic firms like Cipla Ltd and Macleods Pharmaceuticals, went to the Delhi High Court to try to get the ban lifted.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw allowed 454 petitions moved by various pharma and healthcare majors, like Pfizer, Glenmark, Procter and Gamble and Cipla, challenging the government's March 10 notification banning the FDCs, saying the decision was taken by the Centre without following procedure prescribed in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
NPPA suggests expanding the list of essential medicines whose prices are controlled
In another setback to Big Pharma, US drug major Eli Lilly's blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug Cialis (generic name:Tadalafil) has failed to qualify for a product patent in India after the basic constituent of the medicine was found to be a known substance, developed and patented by Indian scientists 32 years ago.
The west is faced with a daunting task on patent expiry, increasing challenges from generics, pipeline showing limited blockbusters, and in addition to that increasing pricing pressure.
Shares of Ranbaxy Laboratories on Thursday fell 7.67 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange to Rs 552.25 at close, after top investment banks like JP Morgan and CLSA said the out-of-court settlement with Pfizer over cholesterol pill Lipitor announced on Wednesday would delay the launch of the drug in the US by well over a year.
Japanese drug-maker Daiichi-Sankyo, which entered into a binding deal with the Ranbaxy Laboratories promoters to buy the latter's 34.8 per cent stake at Rs 737 a share, on Monday said it may revise the open offer price in the case of a competitive bid. The statement assumes significance in the wake of reports that US drug major Pfizer may launch a counter offer for the non-promoter stake of Ranbaxy.
'What proportion of the people require the vaccine for us to manage this entire COVID-19 situation?'
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Lupin Ltd will soon add another generic drug each to their US product basket. The companies received approvals from the US drug regulator to market generic equivalent of Pfizer's Dilantin Kapseals and Abbot's Mavik r
In a boost to India's biggest drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, an Austrian panel has ruled in the company's favour in a patent litigation against Pfizer involving cholesterol lowering drug 'Lipitor' in that country.
While the innovators see data protection as an essential step to spur R&D, generics deem it as ploy to ensure monopoly by yet another name.
Some of the popular brands that would be impacted include Phensedyl (Abbott), Tixylix (Abbott), Gluconorm PG (Lupin), Ascoril D (Glenmark), Solvin Cold (Ipca), D Cold Total (Paras Pharma).
Police believe the bulk powder and replica tablets, which looked exactly like the genuine article, came from India.
Close on the heels of a US district court ruling against its patent challenge of Pfizer's Lipitor, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Friday said it had entered into an out of court settlement with Cephalon Inc
Scientists have developed a new and more effective drug to help smokers quit the habit, which is known to reduce the life span of those addicted by about 10 years and is the single most important factor for heart attacks the world over.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Most foreign drug makers have 100% subsidiaries in India, apart from their listed arms.
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