Pharmaceuticals
Scientists create mini-brains to test new drugs
13 Feb 2016
While researchers have been using mini-brains to test for different types of diseases, Johns Hopkins researcher Dr Thomas Hartung is among the new wave of scientists to use mini brains to conduct neurological research
Animal testing: being cruel to be kind, or just being cruel?
13 Feb 2016
The debate on using animals for medical experiments has come to the boil again with the find that almost a million animals a year are used in the UK alone for experiments
Drugmaker Mylan to buy Sweden’s Meda for $7.2 bn
11 Feb 2016
Bharat Biotech claims breakthrough in Zika vaccine development
03 Feb 2016
Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has filed for global patent of two vaccine candidates - a recombinant vaccine and an inactivated vaccine - for Zika virus
US medical device maker Stryker to buy Sage Products for $2.78 bn
02 Feb 2016
While the US market accounts for the bulk of its sales, Stryker has been recently trying to focus and expand in emerging markets like India, Brazil, and China
Abbott to buy rapid diagnostic testing provider Alere for $5.8 bn
02 Feb 2016
The acquisition will enable Abbott to become the leading provider of point of care diagnostic testing with total sales exceeding $7 billion from $4.6 billion currently
Theranos under increasing regulatory fire
29 Jan 2016
US regulators have found serious shortcomings at a medical laboratory run by Theranos, the latest in a series of setbacks for the blood testing start-up founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes
Drugs may get cheaper with 35% cap on trading margin
19 Jan 2016
On some medicines chemists and wholesalers charge margins as high as 2,000 to 3,000 per cent, which points to the huge difference between the cost of medicines to retailer and the selling price
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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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
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