Pharma News

Vietnam is entering the aging period of the population this year. The average spending on medicine per capita is now at $33 per annum. The figure is expected to increase to $55 by 2021, much lower than the average spending level...

• Pharmaceutical

Every day, countless people across America order prescription drugs from pharmacies in other countries as they hunt for something increasingly elusive — affordable medications.

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• Americans
• Drug

An experimental cancer medicine called larotrectinib has shown promise in treating a diverse range of cancers in people young and old, researchers said at a major cancer conference in the United States.

• Cancer
• Medicine

The cost of medicines is on the agenda this week at the World Health Organisation’s annual policy meeting, the World Health Assembly, in Geneva...

• Drug
• Pharmaceutical

A plastics recycling group is tackling another stream of material in an effort to boost recovery rates in grocery stores.

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• Plastic

According to information from the FDA, the pharma company, located in Bhiwandi was illegally selling ‘Lactitol Monohydrate’ chemical from China to many pharmaceutical companies.

• Pharmaceutical
• FDA

Pharmaceutical companies have been banned from giving financial or related incentives to healthcare professionals in an attempt to influence their prescription of drugs to patients.

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• Medic

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals today said it has received final approval from the US health regulator for its generic version Olmesartan Medoxomil tablets, used in the treatment of high blood pressure.

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Pharma Asia is a 3 day event being held from 22nd August to the 24th August 2017 at the Karachi Expo Center in Karachi, Pakistan.

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• Pakistan

As the government gears up to push generic medicines to bring down costs for patients, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in India Henk Bekedam has stated that the move,

• Medicine

A trial led by a McMaster University respirology professor shows promising results for a new medicine for severe asthma patients.

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• Steroid

Melanin is the pigment responsible for human skin and hair color—and it helps protect skin cells from sun damage by absorbing ultraviolet rays and scavenging free radicals.

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• Melanin

Pharmaceutical stocks were under immense pressure during the session, continuing with its fall from Monday as investors reacted to the negative outlook for the sector.

• Pharmaceutical

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Social Media in Pharma" report to their offering.

• Pharmaceutical

Chinese medical injection molder Mehow Innovation Ltd. is investing more than $20 million in a new facility in Malaysia, its first outside China, as it responds to global customers who want it to diversify outside its home country.

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• China
• Malaysia

China's FDA, long criticized for its cumbersome and slow drug-review process, is offering to grant conditional OKs for orphan meds already approved abroad, even without in-China trial data.

• Drug

EU antitrust regulators have pledged to take a close look at the South African drugmaker’s business practices.

• Cancer
• Drug

Thermo Fisher Scientific is acquiring Patheon, which has been at the center of the consolidation that has swept through contract manufacturing in recent years, in a deal valued at $7.2 billion.

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• Merge

Branded drugmakers weren't the only ones working through a tumultuous 2016. Generics companies faced pricing pressure...

• Drugmakers

Pharmaceutical companies spent €58.5m sponsoring doctors, patients organisations and healthcare providers last year, the Volkskrant said on Thursday.

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