India has had some success overseas in scuttling patenting of products reliant on India?s traditional knowledge, but what about such…
Doling out freebies to doctors just turned exorbitant for pharma companies as the government has decided to label such exchange…
A formula to determine the financial compensation that victims of clinical trials would be entitled to has been proposed by…
If ?ethics? came in injection shots, life wouldn?t be so complicated and the government could have chosen to mandate a…
The US-based Pfizer, the top pharma firm by sales globally, plans to pump in R800 crore in its pharma and…
The EU anti-trust commission has objected to a patent settlement between French company Servier and a score of Indian generic…
Foreign pharma firms planning to pump in money in to their existing Indian subsidiaries can breathe easy as such investments…
At a time of widening Centre-state strifes over turf, from the power to levy taxes to the design and implementation…
During the past seven years, when the domestic drug retail market just over doubled to R60,000 crore, imports of drugs…
With an investment of over R1,200 crore, the Delhi-based healthcare group Rockland is in the process of implementing an ambitious…
To firm up a mandatory ethical code for pharma companies to clean up their dealings with doctors, the department of…
In what could be depriving millions of Indians from the latest medical therapies, of the total 140 newly discovered drugs…
India?s standing as an emerging global hotbed for clinical trials of new drugs is clearly on the wane. Given regulatory…
Although India produces a large number of graduates and postgraduates in biotech and allied sector, most are not job-ready necessitating…
At a time when the tertiary hospitals are creaking under patient overload, short-stay medical centres ? a business model involving…
Stiff opposition from research organisations on how clinical trial victims should be compensated has dealt a blow to health ministry?s…
Lupin has overtaken Cipla to become the third-largest domestic pharma company by turnover in 2012 fiscal by posting net sales…
The Prime Minister?s Office (PMO) has sought a legal opinion on whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can have…
