The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has confirmed its opinion for European marketing authorization of Pfizer's Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate). Xeljanz is a novel, oral Janus kinase ...
Biogen has announced acceptance of marketing applications of Plegridy(peginterferon beta-1a) for review by the US and EU regulatory authorities. Plegridy, a member of the interferon class of treatments, is a pegylated subcutaneous ...
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WuXi AppTec (WuXi), a supplier of R&D services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, has selected Instem, a provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, for Provantis Portal ...
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Johnson & Johnson, a New Jersey-based health care firm, has reported that its profits in the second quarter of fiscal 2013 has more than doubled, partly due to strong sales of medical-devices and medicines. In the second quarter, the net ...
Indian based pharmaceutical company Cipla has completed the acquisition of Cipla Medpro South Africa for a consideration of ZAR4.507bn ($456.43m). Commenting on the development Cipla managing director and global CEO Subhanu Saxena was ...
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Pfizer's rheumatoid arthritis treatment, tofacitinib, has obtained approval in several additional countries globally, including Switzerland, Argentina, Kuwait, UAE and Russia for patients with inadequate response to current therapies. The ...
In June 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,882.7 billion yuan, up by 13.3 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 11.7 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical has established a new company named Otsuka Europe Development and Commercialisation Ltd. (OEDC) for the development of pharmaceuticals in the UK. Working in conjunction with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe (OPEL), OEDC ...
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Accenture has launched a new business service, known as Accelerated R&D Services, to accelerate drug development from discovery to approval to market. Focused on delivering streamlined and integrated research and development (R&D) ...
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In June, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.7 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.6 percent in cities and 2.8 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.9 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
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Flow meters are instruments that help in the enhancement of measuring velocity of various liquids and gases in a given environment. These days the market is showing a boom in the demand for meters and thus, this has led to an introduction ...
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The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) has granted market access to Cell Therapeutics for the medicinal product, Pixuvri (pixantrone), a novel aza-anthracenedione with structural and physiochemical properties Pixuvri has been approved as a ...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim's marketing authorisation application (MAA) for a new insulin glargine product, LY2963016, for review. The application has been filed through ...
Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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The role of castors is extremely important in our daily lives. You can take any example right from the cooking, travelling, shopping, farming to shifting any objects. And if you will look along the sides, you will see that the door is ...
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