Pharmaceuticals

Ranbaxy recalls nerve pain drug from UK market

04 Jun 2010

Sanofi-Aventis signs $398-million cancer drug license deal with Ascenta Therapeutics

04 Jun 2010

Sun rejects Guggenheim's $215 million offer for Taro stake

03 Jun 2010

Covidien to buy ev3 for $2.6 billion to expand into vascular devices market

01 Jun 2010

Sanofi-Aventis and Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical to form generic drug JV

29 May 2010

Central government hospitals to prescribe generic medicines as well

28 May 2010

India's first dental stem cell bank launched

27 May 2010

Sigma Pharmaceuticals reveals mystery bidder is South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare

25 May 2010

Sun Pharma net profit falls nearly 29 per cent to Rs898 crore

24 May 2010

CBI raids reveal expired drug use at CGHS hospitals

22 May 2010

Fake drug sales on the rise, warn experts at WHO meet

22 May 2010

WHO rapped for mislabelling Indian generics as counterfeits

22 May 2010

WHO  has been asked to examine its links to big drug firms after criticism by Brazil and India over the seizure of legitimate generic drug exports by EU countries under trumped-up charges

Abbott is India's biggest pharma firm after $3.7-bn Piramal deal

21 May 2010

Abbott plans to fund the transaction with its own cash reserves and says that the acquisition will not impact its ongoing earnings per share guidance in 2010

Mystery bidder offers A$707 million for loss making Sigma Pharmaceuticals

21 May 2010

Novartis penalised $250 million for gender bias against women

20 May 2010

Pfizer to close eight plants, shed 6,000 jobs worldwide

18 May 2010

After the merger with Wyeth, drug giant Pfizer plans to reconfigure its worldwide plant network.

OSI accepts Astellas's $4-billion revised offer

17 May 2010

The deal finally draws the curtains on Japan's second-largest drug firm's bid for OSI

Dr Reddy's gets US nod for Prograf generic and expects 20 per cent in FY11

15 May 2010

After Cipla, Pfizer firms licensing pact with Strides Arcolab

14 May 2010

Ranbaxy boosts Daiichi Sankyo’s Q1 profits

13 May 2010

India, Brazil launch plaint against EU over drug seizures

13 May 2010

Cadila's H1N1 vaccine approved for launch in India

13 May 2010

Strides Arcolab receives US FDA approval for Bacitracin

12 May 2010

GSK acquires 9.9-per cent stake in S Korea's top phrma firm, Dong-A

12 May 2010

Abbott signs agreement to market 24 Zydus Cadila products

12 May 2010