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Big Pharma's bet on Big Data creates opportunities and risks

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Novartis wants every puff of its emphysema drug Onbrez to go into the cloud The Swiss drugmaker has teamed up with US technology firm Qualcomm to develop an internetconnected inhaler that can send information about how often it is used to remote com...

GSK, Astra, J&J link with universities in new drug research fund

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

GlaxoSmithKline AstraZeneca and Johnson Johnson have joined with three leading British universities to create a new million pounds million fund backing early drug research The Apollo Therapeutics Fund which aims to improve the speed and potential...

Pharma exports to developed nations become easier as government scraps 'No Objection Certificate' rule

Monday, January 25, 2016

The Modi governments easeofdoing business drive is set to benefit Indias drug manufacturers especially companies such as Sun Pharmaceuticals Wockhardt Ranbaxy Laboratories Dr Reddys Laboratories and Cipla which export their products to highly regulat...

Iran to triple pharmaceutical export in three years

Monday, January 25, 2016

Iran is going to increase its pharmaceutical export by three times over the next three years said the director of the Food and Drug Administration Rasoul Dinarvand Currently less than million worth of pharmaceutical products is exported per annum w...

Torrent, Dr Reddy’s, Aurobindo, Cipla, Lupin in race to buy Sagent Pharmaceuticals

Monday, January 25, 2016

At least five Indian drug companies Torrent Pharmaceuticals Dr Reddys Laboratories Aurobindo Pharma Cipla and Lupin are in initial discussions to bid for Sagent Pharmaceuticals a Nasdaqlisted specialty injectables maker sources familiar with the ta...

U.S. government suspends enrollment in Cigna Medicare Advantage, drug plans

Saturday, January 23, 2016

The US government has suspended new enrollment in Cigna Corps Medicare Advantage health insurance and prescription drug plans saying Cigna had widespread and systemic failures that prevented patients from accessing medical services The government sai...

Shire completes acquisition of Dyax Corp

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Shire plc announced that it has completed its acquisition of Dyax Corp in an allcash transaction valued at approximately billion comprised of in cash per Dyax share Dyax shareholders may receive additional value through a nontradable contingent val...

Catalent Pharma to open New Clinical Supply Facility in Japan

Friday, January 22, 2016

Catalent Pharma Solutions the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs biologics consumer health products and global clinical supply services today announced that it is to introduce clinical supply...

Cipla gets CCI nod for investment by FIL Capital

Friday, January 22, 2016

Drug major Cipla today said it has received approval from competition watchdog CCI over the proposed investment by Mauritiusbased FIL Capital Investments in its consumer healthcare business vertical The Competition Commission of India has granted ap...

J&J stops trials of drug similar to one linked to brain death in France

Friday, January 22, 2016

Johnson Johnson has suspended international trials of a drug in the same class as an experimental drug made by Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial whose tests in France left one person brain dead and five others hospitalized A spokesman for John...