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  • Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has with immediate effect stopped making and selling cough syrup Corex in India after the government prohibited fixed dose combination of Chlopheniramine Maleate + Codeine Syrup, the company said in a regulatory filing here on Monday.

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  • On the basis of the recommendations of the Expert Committee and in exercise of powers conferred by Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, the Central Government banned the manufacture for sale, sale and distribution for human use of fixed dose combination of around 344 drugs.

  • The Indian drug regulators has withdrawn the alert on avastin which was imposed after off-label use of drug and recent cases of blindness. The office of DCG(I) was requested to take necessary measures to withdraw the Alert Notice issued on 21.01.2016 which was primarily issued as a precautionary measure in the light of the incidences of blindness reported in Gujarat.

  • Visunex Medical Systems, Inc. announced the FDA clearance of the Visunex Medical Systems PanoCam Pro Wide-field Imaging System for the imaging of all newborn infants.PanoCam Pro is a wireless imaging system that fills an unmet need in the imaging of all newborn babies that may help detect external, anterior, and posterior segment vision disorders that may have long-term effects on the vision of millions of children around the world each year.

  • Soricimed Biopharma Inc. ("Soricimed"), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan-drug designation to peptide SOR-C13 for the treatment of ovarian cancer.

  • Sanofi Pasteur, a global healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients' needs,  and MSD, known as Merck in the United States and Canada, announced their intent to end their joint vaccines operations in Europe.  Upon concluding their joint venture, both companies plan to integrate their respective European vaccine businesses into their operations, independently manage their product portfolios and pursue their own distinct growth strategies in Europe.

  • Pfizer Inc. announced the publication of the Phase 3 study results of a once-weekly regimen of BeneFIX® Coagulation Factor IX (recombinant) 100 IU/kg prophylaxis versus on-demand treatment in people with moderately severe or severe hemophilia B. The findings were published inHaemophilia, the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia.

  • Pharma Major Lupin Limited (Lupin) announced that it has completed its acquisition of privately held US based GAVIS Pharmaceuticals LLC and Novel Laboratories Inc. (GAVIS). Lupin had announced the acquisition on July 23rd 2015. The acquisition enhances Lupin’s scale in the US generic market and also broadens Lupin’s pipeline in dermatology, controlled substance products and other high-value and niche generics. GAVIS brings to Lupin a highly skilled US based Manufacturing & Research organization which would complement Lupin’s Coral Springs, Florida based R&D center for Inhalation. GAVIS’s New Jersey based manufacturing facility also becomes Lupin’s first manufacturing site in the US.

  • AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation for the investigational anti-CD19 monoclonal antibody, MEDI-551, for the treatment of patients with neuromyelitis optica (NMO) as well as neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Developed by MedImmune, MEDI-551 is currently in Phase IIb clinical development for NMO.

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