Pharmaceuticals
Antibiotics, not dirty hospitals, the main cause of C. difficile epidemic
25 Jan 2017
Overuse of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin led to the outbreak of severe diarrhoea caused by C. difficile that hit headlines from 2006 onwards. The outbreak was stopped by substantially reducing use of ciprofloxacin and related antibiotics
Superbugs may be spreading faster than thought: study
By By Jagdeep Worah | 20 Jan 2017
A family of superbugs known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE may be spreading more widely than previously thought – and India is notorious for this type of bacteria. By Jagdeep Worah
Mallinckrodt to pay $100 mn to settle 'price-gouging' charges
20 Jan 2017
The US regulator says that Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt bought in 2014, illegally raised the price of its best-selling drug Acthar by 85,000 per cent and bought the rights to a cheaper competing drug to keep it out of the US market
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