Historic Fine For Generic Drugmaker Ranbaxy

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 14/05/2013 - 08:00:00

Historic Fine For Generic Drugmaker Ranbaxy

Set higher than any fine previously given to a generic drug production firm, India's leading drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy, is ordered to pay a historic $500m

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GSK and Save The Children in African Drugs Tie-Up

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 10/05/2013 - 09:15:00

GSK and Save The Children in African Drugs Tie-Up

GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a new initiative aimed at saving one million Sub-Saharan African children's lives via low-cost drug supply programmes

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Spider Venom Protection Vaccine Breakthrough

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 09/05/2013 - 10:10:00

Spider Venom Protection Vaccine Breakthrough

Thousands of venomous spider bites occur each year and that's just in Brazil. Now, for the first time, a viable anti-venom vaccine is on the horizon

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Statin Drugs May Improve Kidney Cancer Survival

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 08/05/2013 - 09:20:00

Statin Drugs May Improve Kidney Cancer Survival

Designed to drive down cholesterol levels, statin drugs have now been linked to increased survival among renal cell carcinoma kidney cancer patients

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Antibiotics Could Eliminate Back Pain For Ever

Posted by Victoria Knowles - Pharmaceutical International Reporter on 08/05/2013 - 06:30:00

Antibiotics Could Eliminate Back Pain For Ever

Experts have found that antibiotics could prove a much cheaper and easier cure for chronic back pain than major surgery.

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FDA's Pregnant Women Migraine Drug Use Warning

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 07/05/2013 - 07:00:00

FDA's Pregnant Women Migraine Drug Use Warning

US Food and Drug Administration tells pregnant women who experience migraines not to take valproate drugs, since their children's IQ scores might be damaged as a result

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Antidepressant In Meningitis Drug Trial

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 02/05/2013 - 10:10:00

Antidepressant In Meningitis Drug Trial

Long-established as an antidepressant and now off-patent, sertraline is getting a new lease of life as a potential meningitis treatment drug in Uganda

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Inflated Cancer Drug Prices Putting Patients at Risk

Posted by Victoria Knowles - Pharmaceutical International Reporter on 01/05/2013 - 10:20:00

Inflated Cancer Drug Prices Putting Patients at Risk

Experts have warned that the price of drugs charged by pharmaceutical companies are threatening patients lives. The industry is being accused of profiteering.

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CD-3 Leads Counterfeit Malaria Drugs Detection Drive

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 25/04/2013 - 07:35:00

CD-3 Leads Counterfeit Malaria Drugs Detection Drive

The US Food and Drug Administration has partnered-up with other organisations to try and identify the world's counterfeit malaria drugs supplies

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Nanomal: Rapid Malaria Diagnosis And Drug Prescription

Posted by Paul Fiddian - Pharmaceutical International's Lead Reporter on 25/04/2013 - 03:30:00

Nanomal: Rapid Malaria Diagnosis And Drug Prescription

Currently in development and soon set to be trialled, the Nanomal device offers rapid malarial diagnoses and indicates the best drugs to prescribe thereafter

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