Software and scientific consulting services provider Certara has introduced version 2.1 of its SYBYL-X molecular modeling and simulation suite to offer improved job control and increased QSAR accessibility. A comprehensive suite of ...
Tags: Certara, consulting services
China's food watchdog, the State Food and Drug Administration, has released information on nearly 130 milk powder producers that are authorized to sell their products. It is also tightening regulation on the production of infant formula. ...
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would help consumers distinguish between dietary supplements that are safe and those that have potentially serious side-effects or drug ...
Tags: Supplements Labels, Medicine, Packaging, Printing
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supply of GlaxoSmithKline's four-strain (quadrivalent) influenza vaccine, Fluarix Quadrivalent, to CDC distribution centers and healthcare providers in the US. Fluarix ...
A leading official from China's food and drug watchdog has called for enhanced testing to tackle outstanding issues in the country's food and drug sector. Sun Xianze, a member of the Communist Party of China group of the China Food and ...
Tags: Food, Drug Testing
India has partly suspended patents granted to Roche Holding for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, over issues that the patents had not been filed in accordance with the laid down process. An article published in Swiss newspaper Schweiz am ...
Tags: Cancer Drug Patent
The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in India has cancelled the patent for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) anti-cancer drug Tykerb in its salt form over failure in demonstrating significant improvement in the efficacy. Fresenius ...
Tags: Anti-Cancer Drug
British drug maker GSK is set to open its individual patient data pertaining to the clinical trials of an array of medicines, which will enable researchers to leverage them in their specific scientific purposes. The drug company, which ...
Tags: Clinical Trials, GSK
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation, under which products labeled gluten-free must contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten. The regulation has been issued in order to provide a uniform ...
Tags: Food Products, New Standard
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation defining the term gluten-free for voluntary food labeling, in order to provide a uniform standard definition to help up to 3 million Americans who have celiac disease. ...
Tags: Gluten-Free Labelling
US-based establishment Purity First Health Products is voluntarily recalling Healthy Life Chemistry branded health supplements over safety concerns, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The products subject to the ...
Tags: Purity First, Health Supplements
Pfizer’s Wyeth has consented to pay $491m in fine for unlawful marketing of its kidney drug Rapamune, an FDA-approved immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation. In order to boost Rapamune sales, the ...
Tags: Pfizer Unit, Medicine
Perrigo Company has received final FDA approval for abbreviated new drug application for generic equivalent to cutivate lotion, 0.05% and begins immediate shipment of the product. Cutivate Lotion 0.05% (fluticasone propionate lotion, ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded age indication for Novartis' Menveo (Meningococcal [Groups A, C, Y and W-135] Oligosaccharide Diphtheria CRM197 Conjugate Vaccine) to include infants and toddlers aged two months and ...
German pharma and chemical firm Bayer has reported a net profit of €841m for the second quarter of 2013, with an increase of 74.8% compared to €481m during the comparable period earlier year. The increase in profit is primarily ...
Tags: chemical firm, Bayer