Sun Pharma chief forecasts consolidation
09 June 2010
The chairman and managing director of Sun Pharma has forecast consolidation in the coming months in the "local landscape". Dilip Shanghvi said that such a move is likely to be good for competition, as it would enable the organisation to compete with companies which have "marketing ethics and business polices" s...
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Pharma & Life Sciences Professionals Rank C&EN #1
09 June 2010
C&EN is the #1 read publication for pharma and life science researchers and executive management; each week C&EN reaches over 161,000 readers and has a pass-along readership of 300,000 and is also seen by ten...
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Novartis gains rights to drugs for fatal blood disorders
16 December 2009
Novartis has gained exclusive rights to two therapies for patients with life-threatening cancers and blood disorders. Under a licensing agreement with Incyte Corporation, Novartis will have responsibility for the future development of Incyte's oral targeted investigational JAK inhibitor outside America and for future development o...
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HIV vaccine delivery mechanism successful in tests
16 December 2009
Results of a Phase I clinical trial of a preventive HIV vaccine testing a delivery mechanism called electroporation show that it enhanced the immune responses elicited by the vaccine. The randomised, placebo-controlled trial was conducted by Dr Sandhya Vasan and Dr David Ho of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center at the Rockefel...
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API from cow's milk 'could cure most diseases'
09 February 2010
A broad spectrum antiviral and immune modulator branded Receptol could help to cure most of the world's diseases, it has been claimed. Biomix Network, a nano-biotech pharmaceutical company founded in November 1996, is working wi...
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Registration is now live for CPhI South America
04 March 2010
  CPhI South America 17 – 19 August 2010 Buenos Aires Argentina With a 15.3% year-on-year growth rate South America belongs to o...
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Exhibit at CPhI Worldwide 2010
04 March 2010
CPhI Worldwide 2010 5 -7 October 2010 Paris Nord Villepinte, France With a year-on-year increase in visitor attendance, even in tough economic times, CPhI Worldwide is a unique and unrivalled platform for the pharmaceutical ingre...
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New stop-smoking drug trial successful
10 November 2009
Smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who take varenicline are over 33 per cent more likely to quit smoking and remain abstinent than those who do not take the drug, according to a new study. The study results showed that 42.3 per cent of smokers with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmon...
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Positive thinking: Practice this stress management skill
21 April 2009
Positive thinking helps with stress management and can even improve your health. Overcome negative self-talk by recognizing it and practicing with some examples provided. By Mayo Clinic staff   Is your glass half-empty or...
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CALENDAR OF 2010 EVENTS
18 March 2010
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What's new in Conferences?
13 April 2010
API Global Sourcing 29-30 June 2010 Blu Radisson Hotel, Berlin Germany www.api-source.com...
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Scottish leukaemia patients gain access to life-prolonging MabThera
09 February 2010
All patients in Scotland with the most common form of leukaemia now have access to MabThera (rituximab). Scotland is the first country in the UK to make the drug available to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients after the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) extended its recommendation. MabThera can now be used by...
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Large project to develop new mental health drugs begins
09 February 2010
A collaboration of scientists has been formed with the aim of discovering new active pharmaceutical ingredients and drugs for the treatment of depression and schizophrenia. Led by research company H Lundbeck A/S and King's College London, the large research academic-industry collaboration project is called Novel Methods leading to...
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GSK to improve medicines for those in poorest countries
09 February 2010
GlaxoSmithKline has revealed a series of new initiatives that are aimed at improving the company's delivery of new and better medicines to the diseased in the world's poorest countries. The company is to encourage new research into neglected tropical diseases as well as expanding people in third world countries' access to medicin...
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Gammagard 'improves function in Alzheimer's patients'
22 April 2010
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Be part of the worlds largest (bio) pharmaceutical event
13 April 2010
P-MEC Europe compliments three of the Pharma industry's core events,...
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New Numerical Algorithms for Drug
22 April 2010
Drug developers seeking better use of the processing power of multicore computer systems in addition to an easy way to migrate existing applications to multiprocessor architectures, can now download the new NAG Library for SMP and Multicore from Numerical Al...
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PharmaOutSourcing
22 April 2010
PharmaOutSourcing 26-27 May 2010 Berlin Germany...
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Explore your opportunities in Argentina’s exciting pharma market
26 April 2010
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