Pharmaceuticals

Cheap drug could avert thousands of deaths due to haemorrhage in child-birth

28 Apr 2017

FDA finds three Mumbai hospitals reusing single-use medical devices

27 Apr 2017

J&J, Novartis, Takeda, keen on buying controlling stake in Brazilian drug maker Hypermarcas

26 Apr 2017

WHO to test first malaria vaccine in Africa next year

26 Apr 2017

Opioid drug abuse epidemic may be killing 91 a day in the US

25 Apr 2017

Fresenius to buy Merck’s biosimilars business for as much as €670 mn

25 Apr 2017

Indian blood banks wasted over 28 lakh units of blood, blood components in five years

24 Apr 2017

Doctors, pharmacists concerned over prescribing generic medicines to patients

24 Apr 2017

Cherokee Nation takes CVS others to court over opioid crisis

24 Apr 2017

US medical technology company Becton Dickinson to buy C R Bard for $24 bn

24 Apr 2017

The combination of the two companies will create a highly differentiated medical technology company, uniquely positioned to improve both the process of care and the treatment of disease for patients and healthcare providers

KKR & Co in advanced talks to buy stake in medical-diagnostics company SRL Ltd

24 Apr 2017

Drug regulator finds Combiflam, D Cold Total and Oflox 100 substandard

21 Apr 2017

Japan’s Sawai Pharma to buy US generics firm Upsher-Smith for $1.05 bn

20 Apr 2017

Drug companies urged to donate more in fight against neglected tropical diseases

20 Apr 2017

Cardinal Health to buy Medtronic's medical supplies units for $6.1 bn

18 Apr 2017

Govt mulls rules to make prescription of generic drugs mandatory

18 Apr 2017

Aspen Pharma in midst of cancer drug price-gouging row

17 Apr 2017

Aspen Pharmacare allegedly “plotted to destroy supplies of life-saving cancer medicines” to drive up prices in Europe, after the firm bought the rights to five cancer medicines from GlaxoSmithKline and sought to impose rises of up to 4,000 per cent

Abbott, Alere agree to end legal battles, to go ahead with merger at lower price

15 Apr 2017

Strand Life Sciences launches blood test to detect cancer

12 Apr 2017

German generic drugmaker Stada accepts Bain and Cinven's €5.32 bn takeover offer

10 Apr 2017

Bioresorbable stents withdrawn from European markets, to be available only in clinical registries

08 Apr 2017

Fresenius in talks to buy US generic drugmaker Akorn

08 Apr 2017

China’s Creat Group to buy German blood plasma products maker Biotest for $1.4 bn

08 Apr 2017

GlaxoSmithKline recalls nearly 600,000 asthma inhalers over delivery system defect

07 Apr 2017

23andMe gets FDA nod to sell genetic tests directly to consumers

07 Apr 2017

For the first time the FDA has allowed a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, which would tell people if they were at risk of developing conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s