Pharmaceuticals
J&J warns of hack flaw in insulin pump, calls risk ‘extremely low’
06 Oct 2016
Johnson & Johnson is warning patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients with insulin
Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel for Medicine
03 Oct 2016
Yoshinori Ohsumi's elucidation of `autophagy’, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, has helped in the understanding of how the cell recycles its content as also the many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection
EpiPens in UK sold for 10% of US prices
30 Sep 2016
By 2050, drug-resistant infections could cause global economic damage worse than 2008 financial crisis
24 Sep 2016
Drug-resistant infections have the potential to cause a level of economic damage similar to — and likely worse than — that caused by the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report by the World Bank Group
Allergan to buy Tobira Therapeutics for $1.7 bn
20 Sep 2016
Zydus Cadila to partner Takeda Pharmaceutical to develop and commercialise vaccine against chikungunya
20 Sep 2016
US drugmaker Depomed explores sale
16 Sep 2016
Make drugs affordable, delink prices from R&D costs: UN panel
16 Sep 2016
The report calls for human rights to be placed over intellectual property laws and all countries must freely be able to use flexibilities granted under TRIPS to access affordable medicines
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
