The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 3, 2024

Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan. Continue reading.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By 2050, AMR is expected to become one of the leading causes of death worldwide, causing up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050 according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The antibiotic conundrum. Antibiotics are the go-to treatment for bacterial infections in developed countries, such as Strep A. Virus versus bacteria.

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LifeProNow

APRIL 30, 2023

April 29, 2023: “Astellas Pharma Inc. and Pfizer Inc. announced that XTANDI® (enzalutamide) plus leuprolide significantly reduced the risk of metastasis or death by 58% versus placebo plus leuprolide (Hazard Ratio [HR]: 0.42; 95% Confidence Interval [CI], 0.30–0.61; Freedland, M.D., 0.87; P=0.0049), meeting its MFS endpoint.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

This is followed by Europe (3,146 trials), Asia Pacific (2,460), Middle East and Africa (855), and South and Central America (600). Values for North America are particularly high due to the highest revenue pharmaceutical corporations being based in the US.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MARCH 21, 2023

The three firms that control the insulin market are to cut costs in the US, but elsewhere users can spend all their pay to get the life-saving drug ‘I ration my insulin every month,” says Khushi Ahuja, a law student from Delhi who has type 1 diabetes and relies on human insulin manufactured by the US company Eli Lilly to manage her condition.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Disregard for manufacturing standards could ruin the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’ and risk wider problems globally India’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the developing world”, built assiduously by the country’s pharmaceutical companies since the time of the Aids epidemic, is in serious jeopardy.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MARCH 22, 2023

Two alerts, one in October and the other in January , were for adulterated cough syrups manufactured by two different Indian companies. Two alerts, one in October and the other in January , were for adulterated cough syrups manufactured by two different Indian companies.

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The Thyroid Pharmacist

MARCH 24, 2023

One of the most discouraging symptoms I began experiencing before receiving my Hashimoto’s diagnosis was that I began losing my memory. In school, I always had a strong memory, and prided myself on my ability to recall obscure facts and details from experiences I’d had many years earlier. Yes, a cat!”).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 20, 2023

Pharma companies and world health stand to benefit from new technologies, but it’s a tough time to be an investor – and an even tougher one for firms seeking investment. From close to zero, central bank interest rates have risen to 3% in the Eurozone, 4% in the UK and nearly 5% in the USA. Source: GlobalData. That is a fall of 32.5%

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

The country is also an attractive site for handling operations in Asia as Novo Nordisk and GSK have opened regional headquarters there. This investment will be used to further the development of the Singapore-based pharmaceutical company’s solid tumour-focused monoclonal antibodies.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 3, 2023

Merck’s Life Science business has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), and Daejeon City to establish a new bioprocessing production facility, to be known as the Asia Pacific BioProcessing Production Centre.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Healthcare systems around the world are stressed and don’t have enough capacity – and that is where we fill that niche and that gap,” explains Dave Hurhangee, CEO of Waire Health. Building up data over time also allows for pinpointing when any health fluctuations occur and the monitoring of any changes.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 9, 2023

Piet Jamaels, COO, Cerba Research For speciality and central laboratory services provider Cerba Research, a new chief operating officer (COO) has a bold and ambitious vision for the firm, which operates a global network of laboratories in the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

By the end of the year, the company will seek to identify similar issues in European biosimilars, followed by the Middle East and Africa in Q1 2024, and Asia Pacific in Q2. Generic and biosimilar pharmaceutical company and Novartis subsidiary Sandoz announced its plan to accelerate patient access to biosimilars.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

7,000 more clinical trials take place each year in the Asia-Pacific region compared with 2012, and 1,200 more in the Middle East and Africa. 7,000 more clinical trials take place each year in the Asia-Pacific region compared with 2012, and 1,200 more in the Middle East and Africa. The world of clinical trials is changing.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

7,000 more clinical trials take place each year in the Asia-Pacific region compared with 2012, and 1,200 more in the Middle East and Africa. 7,000 more clinical trials take place each year in the Asia-Pacific region compared with 2012, and 1,200 more in the Middle East and Africa. The world of clinical trials is changing.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

On December 20, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its recommendations for cervical cancer vaccines in a bid to boost vaccination coverage. The WHO now says that a one-dose schedule for girls ages 9–14 years adequately protects against human papillomavirus (HPV), and more specifically, the HPV 16 and HPV 18 strains.

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