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  • CII-Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology(CoE-NT), Gujarat Knowledge Application Facilitation Centre (GKAFC), Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) & Canada India Business Exchange(CIBX) jointly organized Industry interaction meet for Center for Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics(CCAB), Canada on 11 February 2015, Hotel Novotel, S.G. Highway, Ahmedabad. CCAB has already developed hundreds of human antibodies that are potential therapeutic candidates for the treatment of cancer, AMD and other Infectious and Metabolic diseases.

  • Men are less likely to quit smoking when looking at attractive women, according to a new study which asked men to rate how appealing pictures of different women were. In an experiment, scientists from Taiwan asked 76 men to rate pictures of various women.

  • Parents, take note! Daytime naps of 30 minutes or more help babies retain and remember new behaviours, a first of its kind study has found. Researchers from the University of Sheffield, UK, and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany explored whether daytime sleep after learning helped babies to remember new behaviour.

  • Researchers have for the first time grown human skeletal muscle in the lab which contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses, biochemical signals and pharmaceuticals. The lab-grown tissue will allow researchers to test new drugs and study diseases in functioning human muscle outside of the human body to provide personalised medicine to patients.

  • Natco Pharma Limited has filed Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs) for Fingolimod, 0.5mg Capsules & Cabazitaxel, 60mg/1.5ml Injection, with the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (USFDA), through its respective marketing partners in the USA.

  • (Business Wire India); India has a very unique talent pool of an estimated 2-3 million educated disabled. What makes them so unique? The educated disabled have demonstrated tremendous resilience and have been toughened by the day to day challenges of inadequate school facilities, lack of accommodating transport infrastructure and yet have graduated from high schools and colleges. This segment of society reflects an enormous “can-do” attitude and is equipped with tremendous staying power which corporate India can leverage.

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  • The Minister for Health & Family Welfare Shri J P Nadda launched the National Deworming initiative aimed to protect more than 24 crore children in the ages of 1-19 years from intestinal worms, on the eve of the National Deworming Day, at Jaipur. Also present at the function were Shri Rajendra Rathore, Health Minister, Rajasthan. They administered the deworming tablets to some school going children.

  • Cipla Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company which uses cutting edge technology and innovation to meet the everyday needs of all patients, today announced that it’s wholly owned subsidiary, Cipla (EU) Limited, U.K. has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with Cipla’s existing business partners in Morocco – Societe Marocaine De Cooperation Pharmaceutique (“Cooper Pharma”) and The Pharmaceutical Institute (PHI).

  • There is a need for innovation in the systems and practices in delivery of healthcare to enhance their effectiveness. There is an equal need for sharing of best practices between the various stakeholders in the health sector in order to benefit from the prevalent knowledge and experience in different quarters. Union Health Minister Shri J P Nadda stated this at the Third Biennial International Conference and Advanced Live Laparoscopic Workshop- ENDOLAP 2014, organised by the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, on 7th Feb.

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