Alternative pharmaceutical industry: India ahead of Pakistan i...

United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (USP) and the National Institute of Biologicals (NIB) have tied up together to strengthen the collaboration in improving the regulatory standards in the areas of biosimilars and other biological products in ...

The second international meeting of world pharmacopoeias will be jointly hosted by the World Health Organization and Indian Pharmacopeia Commission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India on 18-19 April 2013, in New Delhi, India. ...

The Indian pharmaceutical market is forecasted to grow at an estimated CAGR of 16% between 2010 and 2015 and cross USD 20 billion. It is projected to be the third largest global pharmaceuticals market in terms of the incremental growth. The increase in health awareness and higher prevalence of lifestyle diseases is resulting in greater demand for pharmaceutical products in India. Among the therapeutic areas, gastrointestinal (GI) and diabetes would continue to hold the large market share of ...

Drugs manufactured by pharmaceutical company, Theon Pharmaceuticals Ltd owned by railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's wife Madhu and son Amit were found to be 'not of standard quality' by the Drugs Control Laboratory of Maharashtra, documents ...

United States Pharmacopeia's new monograph naming policy is all set to come into effect by May this year. Srini Srinivasan, Executive Vice President - Global Science and Standards & Chief Science Officer, USP gives Shalini Gupta more details on this ...

Our Bureau, Bengaluru Government College of Pharmacy (GCP), Bengaluru is all set to observe its 50 years of imparting pharmacy education in Karnataka. The event will be held on June 1 and 2, 2013, in Bengaluru. The college is looking to follow up ...

Hafiz Pasha, dean of Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, and former commerce minister, finance minister and deputy chairman of Planning Commission, government of Pakistan, tells Nayanima Basu India has to do much more than Pakistan to normalise ...

As many as 14 drug manufacturing units were given subsidy for strengthening in-house laboratories as per GMP requirements, as part of the efforts to strengthen quality control of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy (ASU&H) drugs in the country, ...

Regulations for indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) must drive business and not drive away business. In most countries adequate regulations do not exist to promote IKS-based innovations to be brought to market that provide more than one avenues to do ...