European Commission authorises GSK's HIV prevention drugCabotegravir is recommended in combination with safer sex practices for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually-acqu...
19 Sep, 2023, 12.22 PM IST
Africa needs to make own vaccines but hurdles are high, experts sayMartin Friede, coordinator of the World Health Organisation Initiative for Vaccine Research, said Africa had produced many scientific resea...
07 Dec, 2021, 08.00 PM IST
South Africa suspends 2 million Johnson & Johnson dosesFollowing a review of the FDA decision, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) said in a statement that it had dec...
14 Jun, 2021, 07.36 AM IST
Pfizer COVID-19 shot 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variantThe shot was also 100% effective in preventing illness among trial participants in South Africa, where a new variant called B1351 is domina...
01 Apr, 2021, 07.16 PM IST
Saudi Arabia to get three million AstraZeneca shots in a week from India's Serum InstituteSII, the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer, has partnered with AstraZeneca, the Gates Foundation and the Gavi vaccine alliance to make u...
26 Jan, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
India to begin commercial vaccine exports with shipments to Brazil, MoroccoThe shots developed by UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and Oxford University are being manufactured at the Serum Institute of India, the wor...
21 Jan, 2021, 10.35 PM IST
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants: StudyThe not-yet peer reviewed study by Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch indicated the vaccine was effective in...
08 Jan, 2021, 10.10 AM IST
AstraZeneca resumes vaccine trial in Japan, in talks with U.S.Several global trials of the vaccine, AZD1222, were put on hold last month after an unexplained illness in a study participant. While most ...
02 Oct, 2020, 01.50 PM IST
Cipla divests animal health business in South Africa, sub-Saharan AfricaThe deal comes with a potential revision linked to FY17 performance along with customary adjustment (within the price band of 250 mn Rand a...
06 Mar, 2017, 12.46 AM IST
Cipla signs pact with Teva Pharmaceuticals for selling drugs in South AfricaThe collaboration will focus on oncology, central nervous system, women's health, cardiovascular, ophthalmology and other speciality produc...
09 Oct, 2014, 01.38 PM IST
Roselabs talks with PEs, inks Brazilian dealZameer Agrawal, director, Roselabs Biosciences Ltd, said, "We have recently entered into a $20 million contract supply deal with a Brazilia...
28 Aug, 2013, 10.01 AM IST
Cipla Medpro shareholder wants Cipla India to hike offer: ReportCipla Medpro is a South African affiliate of Cipla. The companies enjoy a long-standing business relationship spanning two decades.
11 Mar, 2013, 04.19 PM IST
Cipla puts Medpro buyout on hold over valuation issuesCipla decides to put on hold its $220-million acquisition plan of the third-largest South African drugmaker Cipla Medpro due to valuation i...
11 Feb, 2013, 08.15 AM IST
Cipla set to buy 51% of S Africa's Cipla Medpro for about $220 millionCipla said on Wednesday it will buy 51% of Cipla Medpro for about $220 million, valuing the beleaguered South African company at about $440...
22 Nov, 2012, 08.48 AM IST
Cipla looking to expand contraceptive pills business; in talks with International Planned ParenthoodThe country's second-largest pharmaceuticals company, Cipla, is in talks with an international health group to expand its contraceptive pil...
18 Sep, 2012, 06.12 AM IST
- Ranbaxy launches cholesterol drug in SAfrica
Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest drugmaker by sales, said on Tuesday its unit had launched atorvastatin, generic form of Pfizer Inc's ...
08 Jun, 2010, 03.04 PM IST
- Indian firms get lion's share in US anti-AIDS funding
Aurobindo Pharma, Cipla and Ranbaxy, have received a lion's share of over 85 per cent in the US government's latest fiscal funding for AIDS...
31 Jul, 2008, 03.27 PM IST