The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned drug imports from an India manufacturing unit of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd over violations of standard manufacturing practices, the latest in a series of Indian firms to face such action.
IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals has received US FDA approval for marketing APIs in US after successful inspection of its ibuprofen manufacturing facility situated at Barnala in Punjab. The said facility at Barnala has also been approved by ANVISA Brazil, WHO and MOH Japan. These approvals will help to build and sustaining the growth by its API business in coming years.
(Business Wire India); Biocon Ltd, Asia's premier biopharmaceuticals company, announced today that it has delivered a strong consolidated financial performance for Q1 FY16.
GSK announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for its malaria candidate vaccine MosquirixTM, also known as RTS,S, in children aged 6 weeks to 17 months. Following this decision, the World Health Organization (WHO) will now formulate a policy recommendation on use of the vaccine in national immunisation programmes once approved by national regulatory authorities.
Trivitron Healthcare has added two new products in the newborn screening kit for India. The two new tests are Neonatal IRT and Neonatal Toxoplasma gondii IgM that detect disorders which may harm the newborn in later stages of life. Neonatal IRT can detect disorders affecting the lungs, pancreas, intestine and liver. Whereas, Neonatal Toxoplasma gondii IgM can detect neurological and visual disabilities.
Novartis, the world's second largest pharmaceutical company, has announced that its antimalarial medicine Coartem 80/480mg received World Health Organisation (WHO) prequalification, making it the first and only high strength (80/480mg) artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) antimalarial treatment available for public sector procurement. This new dosage strength has the potential to improve malaria management.
Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, has got the Zinnov Awards for its Eyecare device that was adjudged as an innovation with a potential to solve large scale global problems.
(NewsVoir); Randstad, one of the country’s leading HR service providers, today launched an exclusive ‘Talent Trends Report – HR Game Changers’ at the 12th edition of the NASSCOM HR Summit, held in Chennai. The report offers an overview of the top 15 workplace trends that will shape talent management in 2015 and beyond.
(Business Wire India); Apollo Children’s Hospital has once again showcased its expertise and technical know-how on implementing some of the latest technologies for the benefit of patients. Surgeries performed at the Children’s Hospital using the da Vinci robot provides patients with all the advantages like quicker discharge time, minimal scarring, smaller incisions and less blood loss that conventional laparoscopy offers over open surgeries.
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