Adar Poonawalla said he was hopeful that Covovax, the Novavax vaccine made by SII, will be launched around October this year for adults and for children by the first quarter of next year, depending on DCGI approvals.
The US Food and Drug Administration has asked USV to probe employees who might have been responsible for inaccurate data reporting.
FDA inspectors visited the Mohali plant in the process of giving approval to Ranbaxy's application for Valsartan.
'WHO issued an emergency use listing for Covovax, expanding the basket of WHO-validated vaccines against COVID-19. The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India under licence from Novavax,' the world health body said in a tweet on Friday.
The state government had in the first week of June banned Maggi sale in the state after the product failed the food safety test.
Under terms of the agreed deal, Ranbaxy shareholders will get 0.8 of a Sun Pharmaceutical share for each Ranbaxy share they own.
Serum Institute has the capacity to make 250 million doses of Covishield monthly.
India on Tuesday temporarily licensed the export of paracetamol and anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to some countries, which have been particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, the 74-year-old leader, who left the White House on January 20, stopped short of announcing to run for the president in 2024, although he gave enough indications that he is moving in that direction.
The sale of gutka would be booked under non-bailable sections regarding the offence
US District Judge Beryl Howell in Minneapolis denied Ranbaxy's request, the court filing showed.
Trump had said that he worked on removing a large number of bureaucratic obstacles to fast-track development and approval of a vaccine.
Sun Pharma stated the company wanted shareholders' approval to "issue, offer and allot equity shares or non-convertible securities, other than warrants, up to an amount of Rs 12,000 crore ($2 billion), to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to a QIP."
Prosecutors unveiled charges against Valvani alleging he fraudulently made $25 million by getting advance information about US Food and Drug Administration approvals of generic drug applications
The recalled drugs were manufactured and distributed in the US by Ohm Laboratories.
The recommendation holds true for both indoors and outdoors, the CDC said.
While the US health regulator did not specify details for issuing the alert, it said 'detention without physical examination may be appropriate when an FDA inspection has revealed that a firm is not operating in conformity with current good manufacturing practices'.
Goa on Sunday joined several other states in banning the sale of Nestle's instant noodle brand 'Maggi' which is at the centre of a raging nationwide row over food safety concerns.
The FDA had imposed a ban on the company's Waluj plant in May.
The introduction of e-pharmacy, to protect the interest of a handful of players, would hamper the interest of 800,000 chemists and 80 lakh workers and their families
All of Ranbaxy's India-based factories are currently banned by the FDA from exporting medicines to the United States, the company's largest market, after the regulator's inspection found violation of its so-called good manufacturing practices.
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Dr Murthy, 43, a former United States Surgeon General, along with two other co-chairs -- Dr David Kessler and Dr Marcella Nunez-Smith -- would lead a team of leading public health experts who will advise Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the deadly virus.
The US vice-president-elect received a dose of the Moderna vaccine from clinical nurse Patricia Cummings at United Medical Center, which is located in Southeast Washington, DC.
Domestic firms Aurobindo Pharma, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Natco Pharma have received US health regulator's approval to market their generic Rizatriptan Benzoate orally disintegrating tablets used for treating migraine in the American market.
The Indian Army on Wednesday issued an advisory asking its personnel not to consume Maggi noodles.
In the next two weeks, the United States will detail plans to equitably distribute about 80 million (8 crore) COVID-19 vaccine doses globally without 'political requirements' of those receiving them, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
Hydroxychloroquine has been identified by the US Food and Drug Administration as a possible treatment for the COVID-19 and it is being tested on more than 1,500 coronavirus patients in New York.
Calling COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines as one of the most important aspects of his discussions with top officials of the Biden administration, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the endeavour is to expand production of vaccines in India with assistance from the US.
Rosier year-end seen for Indian pharma thanks to faster US approvals.
'Supplies should start moving to the Serum Institute without any impediments.'
Pfizer and BioNTech SE on Monday said trial results of COVID-19 vaccine showed that it is safe and produced robust neutralising antibody response in children aged five to 11 years, and they plan to seek regulatory approvals as soon as possible.
'I want to thank Prime Minister Modi of India for allowing us to have what we requested for the problem arose and he was terrific. We will remember it'
It had posted net profit of Rs 125.75 crore (Rs 1.25 billion) during the January-March quarter of the previous fiscal, 2012-13.
The Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has found detergent in one of the samples of Mother Dairy's milk packets, a claim contested by the Delhi-based company.
An end to Sun Pharma founder Dilip Shanghvi's woes are not in sight.
It is one of 42 drug-making factories in India that the FDA has banned in recent years
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Murthy, 43, who originally hails from Karnataka, was appointed America's 19th Surgeon General by then president Barack Obama in 2014.
Glenmark Generics Inc USA, the subsidiary of Glenmark Generics Ltd has received nod for it's Hydrocortisone Butyrate Cream USP (0.1 per cent), abbreviated new drug approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said in a statement.
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