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FDA Offers Guidance on Gluten-Labeling for Medications

Dec 18, 2017

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance for drug manufacturers to clarify when a gluten-containing ingredient has been used to make prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley ...

Tags: Gluten, drug

FDA Releases New Guidance on Prescription Drug Promotion

Dec 15, 2017

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new guidance for drug makers on prescription drug promotion. FDA has released two Federal Register notices pertained to prescription drug promotion from the FDA Center for Drug ...

Tags: drug, prescription drug

Kedaara Capital Has Forayed Into The Packaging Sector by Investing Close to $32m

Mar 19, 2015

Mumbai-based private equity firm Kedaara Capital has forayed into the packaging sector by investing close to $32m (Rs 200 crore) in an unlisted folding cartons and paper packaging company, Parksons Packaging. The company said that it ...

Tags: folding cartons, paper packaging, Packaging

a medicinal herb may prove it can cost much more

Aug 11, 2014

There's an old saying in China that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, but one anti-corruption official's accusations involving the name change of a medicinal herb may prove it can cost much more. Lu Qun, deputy director of an ...

Tags: Chinese Herbs

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Will Investigate Possible Links

Feb 25, 2014

TUESDAY Feb. 11, 2014, 2014 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will investigate possible links between the diabetes drug saxagliptin and a heightened risk for heart failure among users. In a statement, the ...

Tags: FDA, Diabetes Drug, Heart Failure, NEJM

Hepatitis C Treatment Isn't Pretty

Jan 16, 2014

Hepatitis C treatment isn't pretty, but the dark days of weekly injections, rough side effects and no guarantee of full recovery from the liver-damaging disease may soon be over, researchers report. Two studies, both published in the Jan. ...

Tags: Health, Medicine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Has Asked Doctors to Stop Prescribing Painkillers

Jan 15, 2014

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors to stop prescribing painkillers that contain more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen because of reports of severe liver damage. Prescription painkillers, which include Vicodin and ...

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A Safe and Effective Male Birth Control Pill May Be Inching Closer to Reality

Dec 27, 2013

A safe and effective male birth control pill may be inching closer to reality, according to researchers. In laboratory experiments, mouse sperm was blocked from semen while still allowing for normal sexual activity. Without sperm in the ...

Tags: male birth control, male birth control pill, birth control pills

80% Doctors Who Treat Cancer Were Unable to Prescribe Medication Because of Drug Shortage

Dec 25, 2013

Four out of five doctors who treat cancer were unable to prescribe their medication of choice at least once during a six-month period because of a drug shortage, according to a new survey. The survey also found that more than 75 percent ...

Tags: drug shortage, chemotherapy drugs, cancer doctors

Pharmaceutical Customers Are Changing The Ways They Purchase Drugs and Role in Drug Use

Dec 23, 2013

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ddcad-1'); }); Faced with rising out-of-pocket costs and complex treatment plans and armed with new social media tools and more information, pharmaceutical customers are changing ...

Tags: Health, Medicine

Some Pharmaceutical Companies Are Using Disgusting "Gutter Oil" to Make Antibiotics.

Nov 19, 2013

As China continues to rise as the new Asian powerhouse, there has been a steady stream of reports which have detailed the country's staggering lack of standards when it comes to producing manufactured goods, so it was only mildly shocking ...

Tags: pharmaceutical, manufacturer, gutter oil, antibiotics

Experts Have Called for Reforms of Public Hospitals and More Legislation

Sep 6, 2013

Experts have called for reforms of public hospitals and more legislation on the pharmaceutical industry, after police revealed more details on Tuesday of suspected financial violations by GlaxoSmithKline China. The British pharmaceutical ...

Tags: Chemicals, Pharma

China Will Launch a New Round of Investigation Lasting for Three Months to Attack Bribery

Aug 19, 2013

Reports from Xinhua News Agency said that China will launch a new round of investigation lasting for three months to attack bribery in pharmaceutical and medical treatment fields. The investigation will be led by the State Administration ...

Tags: Health, Medicine, Drug Makers

India Partly Suspended Patents Granted to Roche Holding for Breast Cancer Drug Herceptin

Aug 6, 2013

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

FibroGen Formed a Strategic Partnership to Develop and Commercialize FG-4592

Aug 2, 2013

British drugmaker AstraZeneca and US biotechnology company FibroGen have formed a strategic partnership to develop and commercialize FG-4592 to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). ...

Tags: Anemia Drug, Astrazeneca

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