Pharmaceuticals

Danaher to buy molecular diagnostics company Cepheid for $4 bn including debt

06 Sep 2016

Trial drug found promising in Alzheimer treatment

03 Sep 2016

Dengue vaccine could cause severe illness: Study

03 Sep 2016

Teva patent on multiple sclerosis drug invalidated

02 Sep 2016

US FDA approves Novartis’s biosimilar copy of Amgen’s Enbrel

01 Sep 2016

Nestle Health Science to buy British medical device company Phagenesis

01 Sep 2016

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals to buy Canada's Cynapsus Therapeutics for $624 mn

01 Sep 2016

UN health officials warn of gonorrhea becoming untreatable

31 Aug 2016

Another setback for Theranos as it does rethink on Zika test

31 Aug 2016

Mylan to offer generic EpiPen at half list price

30 Aug 2016

Aurobindo, Intas in race for Teva's Irish generics business

29 Aug 2016

Alere sues Abbott for completion of $5.8-bn merger

29 Aug 2016

US top doctor, Dr Vivek Murthy advises all US doctors on opioid epidemic

29 Aug 2016

Mylan to further enhance access to EpiPen Auto-Injector

26 Aug 2016

Mylan wins patent battle over sclerosis drug Copaxone

26 Aug 2016

Pfizer to acquire part of AstraZeneca's antibiotics business

24 Aug 2016

Card costing 1 dollar can test for substandard drugs

24 Aug 2016

World's first Leprosy vaccine developed in India to go on trial soon

24 Aug 2016

If first-of-its-kind leprosy vaccine developed in India shows good results, a pilot vaccination programme will be extended to other high-prevalence districts in the country

Zika virus could be around for two more years in US: expert

23 Aug 2016

Mylan raises prices of allergy medication EpiPens 500%

23 Aug 2016

Toshiba Medical enters race to buy Takeda Pharmaceutical’s chemical unit

22 Aug 2016

Pfizer in advanced talks to buy cancer drug specialist Medivation for nearly $14 bn

22 Aug 2016

A successful deal  would be Pfizer’s biggest acquisition since it purchased biologic drug specialist Hospira Inc last year for about $17 billion

New cholesterol drug not worth the high price, finds study

19 Aug 2016

J&J loses rheumatic drug patent battle; boost for Pfizer

18 Aug 2016

Lupin India’s most reputed drug brand; Sun, Cipla follow

18 Aug 2016