US stocks close slightly up after prior week's selloffAll three main stock indexes climbed more than 1% shortly after the opening bell, in part due to an easing in Treasury yields, and all thre...
28 Feb, 2023, 09.04 AM IST
Pfizer announces 12-week paternity leave policy for biological, adoptive fathers within workforceThe policy offers birthing and non-birthing fathers the flexibility to avail leaves over a period of two years. The minimum number of leave...
05 Jan, 2023, 01.44 PM IST
Despite consumption hit, China to stand fast on tough COVID-19 restrictionsBeijing has been eager to burnish its record on tackling COVID-19, which a government white paper has described as among the "most importan...
22 Dec, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
US has enough COVID-19 vaccines for boostersThe spike in demand -- expected following last week's federal recommendation on booster shots -- would be the first significant jump in mon...
26 Sep, 2021, 08.19 PM IST
Should I have my AstraZeneca booster shot at 8 weeks rather than 12? Here's the evidence so you can decideATAGI's concern, and that of some other vaccine experts, is if you have your booster shot earlier than 12 weeks, your body won't develop en...
10 Jul, 2021, 11.57 AM IST
Sydney to face prolonged COVID-19 lockdown amid record 2021 casesHundreds of extra police patrolled parts of Sydney to enforce the city's lockdown orders imposed to stamp out an outbreak of the highly inf...
09 Jul, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Moderna refuses to deal directly with Punjab for vaccine: OfficialAll efforts would be made for procurement of vaccines to meet the acute shortage in the state, which had received less than 44 lakh vaccine...
23 May, 2021, 07.35 PM IST
Cancer patients less protected after first COVID vaccine jab, UK study findsThe evidence of vaccine responses in cancer patients shows that a gap of 12 weeks between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could leave ...
11 Mar, 2021, 08.23 PM IST
Insurers, drugmakers sail into unknown with COVID vaccine rolloutThe first U.S. vaccine shipments departed Pfizer's facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan this week, while tens of thousands of people in Britain ...
18 Dec, 2020, 01.54 PM IST
WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024The World Health Organization's COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around th...
16 Dec, 2020, 11.38 PM IST
Trump says he's nixing plan for early vaccine at White HouseTrump made the announcement hours after his administration confirmed that senior U.S. officials, including some White House aides who work ...
14 Dec, 2020, 10.11 AM IST
UK starts mass coronavirus vaccination programmeThe first patients in line on what has been dubbed "V-Day" -- the over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care ...
08 Dec, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
Asia stocks take a breather, bonds bet on Fed actionMSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.5%, though that was from a record peak. Chinese blue chips were a fractio...
19 Nov, 2020, 08.32 AM IST
Big pharma returning to US price hikes in January after pausePfizer has already announced plans to hike prices on 41 of its drugs in mid-January.
20 Dec, 2018, 01.26 PM IST
- Biocon's corporate governance standards raise alarm among analysts
Research firm ESPIROTO SANTO Investment bank has questioned the accounting practise of Bangalore based biotechnology company Biocon.
23 May, 2012, 02.46 PM IST
- Pfizer CFO exit may have India angle
The recent exit of the world’s largest drug-maker Pfizer Inc’s CFO Alan Levin may have an India angle if the allegations of a US-based blog...
28 May, 2007, 02.44 AM IST
- Local pharma cos beat MNC peers
Domestic pharmaceutical shares have outperformed their multinational (MNC) counterparts in the last month, even as the MNCs have done some ...
19 Aug, 2006, 02.51 AM IST