Zydus subsidiary receives USFDA nod to market Tamiflu drugThe group now has more than 110 approvals and has so far filed over 300 ANDAs since the commencement of the filing process in 2003-04 fiscal
Natco settles patent suit with Gilead, others over TamifluNatco Pharma and its partner Alvogen today said they have settled patent infringement suit with Gilead Sciences Inc and others over Tamiflu.
Swine flu: Hetero Healthcare increases Fluvir production by 400%Hetero has dedicated manufacturing facilities at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Baddi in Himachal Pradesh exclusively to produce the d...
Swine flu cases cross 100 mark in DelhiThe Health Ministry said that government has placed an order for procuring 30,000 doses of oseltamivir to treat a potential outbreak in the...
- Govt may cap retail price of swine flu drug
The government may cap the retail price of anti-viral drug oseltamivir used for the treatment of swine flu if market competition does not f...
- Local pharma firms get to retail generic flu drugs
Months after the H1N1 virus hit India, local pharmaceutical companies are finally able to sell generic versions of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) in...
- Govt curbs sale of flu drug Zanamivir
The government is set to put Zanamivir, the only swine flu drug that is freely available in the market, currently, under restricted sale ca...
- Strides Arcolab ready to supply Swine Flu drug
Drug firm Strides Acrolab on Tuesday said it is in a position to supply Oseltamivir Capsules, the only available medicine against Influenza...
- Rising cases force govt to weigh open sale of flu drug
The swine flu outbreak, classified by the WHO as a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ may see Indian drugmakers pitching in...
- Govt may allow retail sales of H1N1 drug
With the number of swine flu casualties increasing, the government is now considering to allow sale of oseltamivir through private hospital...
- GSK to up output of inhaler drug
With swine flu cases on the rise, governments across the world are covering their bases and stocking up on both the drugs available to trea...
- Retail sale of swine flu drug under lens
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) may soon crack the whip on those selling oseltamivir, the medicine to treat swine flu, in retai...
- Pharma cos seek retail opening for swine flu drug
Indian pharmaceutical companies that manufacture oseltamivir, the generic version of tamiflu, are pushing the government into allowing them...
- Hetero bags mega chunk of govt's anti-flu drug deal
Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs has bagged the lion’s share of the government’s 10-million anti-flu drug order.
- Hetero Drugs close to receiving orders for its swine flu medicines
Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs is close to receiving orders from foreign countries for its swine flu medicines worth at least $10 mn in the n...
- Will swine flu be a boon for Indian generics?
Tamiflu is not patent-protected in India and some other emerging markets, but it is in the US, Europe, and Mexico. Top 10 Drugmakers by sal...
- Ranbaxy to supply oseltamivir capsules to US
Ranbaxy Laboratories said it was prepared to provide oseltamivir phosphate capsules (generic version of Tamiflu) to the US healthcare syste...