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Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis said Tuesday that it would invest 1.0 billion dollars (680 million euros) in research and development in China to latch on to growing demand for health ca... Read more

US pharma Abbott has announced it has received CE Marking (Conformité Européene) for a new diagnostic test for acute kidney injury (AKI). The test detects an important protein in urine, neut... Read more

US pharma giant Abbott is to acquire the nutrition businesses of India’s Wockhardt Limited, Carol Info Services Limited, and certain Wockhardt subsidiaries and group companies. The Abbott wi... Read more

Idea Cellular has decided to build on the success of the "walk when you talk" campaign and has launched another ad for the same. Users are now invited to log onto www.walkwhenyoutalk.co.in a... Read more

Drug giant Abbot has tied up with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to develop an automated molecular diagnostic test, based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology. It will help scree screen non-... Read more

The Indian Health Regulator Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked Natco Pharma to stop marketing the breast cancer drug 'Albupax'. The company said it was stopping production of ... Read more

The European Union's competition regulator launched a probe into the pharmaceutical sector Wednesday over concerns that cheap generic medicines are not reaching patients in need.

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Prices of cancer, cardiac, hepatitis, and arthritis could go down in India in the wake of the budget proposals of Monday.

The federal Finance Minister announced lowering of customs d... Read more

US health care giant Johnson & Johnson is to take up an 18.4 percent stake in Irish drugmaker Elan and acquire rights to Elan's Alzheimer's disease trial drugs, the companies said Thursday. ... Read more

OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced that it has reached an agreement with regulators in the US to amend its late-stage prostate cancer trial. The agreement to amend the trial was rea... Read more