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News | 21 September 2021

Zydus agrees to sell Mifegest and Cytolog to Integrace

The purchaser is a part of the portfolio companies of PE firm True North. The said transaction is not a related party transaction.

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News | 20 September 2021

U.S. FDA concludes inspection of Lupin’s Goa facility with seven observations

The company said in a regulatory filing that it was confident of addressing the observations satisfactorily

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News | 18 September 2021

India extends concession on life-saving Covid-19 drugs till December 2021

The council has also reduced the GST to 5 per cent on a few more Covid-19 medicines

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News | 17 September 2021

QCI institutes Prof. SK Joshi laboratory excellence award

This award is open to all currently operational laboratories pertaining to testing, calibration & medical including their proficiency testing providers & reference material producers located in India

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News | 17 September 2021

Promising prospects for Indian pharma: CLSA

CLSA, a capital market and investment group organised an Investors’ Forum where five Indian pharma companies participated. Excerpts from the report

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News | 17 September 2021

Pharma exports for August 2021 at Rs 14,871 crores

In the period April to August 2021, exports stood at Rs 73,469.29 crores compared to Rs 72,275.22 crores for the period April to August 2020 a growth of 1.65 per cent

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News | 16 September 2021

DGCI gives a go-ahead for Phase III Sputnik Light trials

The Lancet study said that Sputnik Light showed 78.6 to 83.7 per cent efficacy against Covid-19, significantly higher than most two-shot vaccines

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News | 16 September 2021

Lupin to settle litigations over diabetes drug

The board has approved the settlement of US $ 248 million towards Direct Purchaser group and Retailer Opt-Out group subject to court approval

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News | 16 September 2021

NCLT approves amalgamation of Lincoln Parenteral with Lincoln Pharma

The amalgamation is expected to bring in a lot of synergies in terms of operational efficiency and productivity for the combined entity

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News | 15 September 2021

Fredun Pharma bags Rs 22 crore order from East African countries

The order strengthens the company’s position in the East African market

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News | 15 September 2021

Glenmark’s PMS study allays concerns on use of Favipiravir for Covid-19 treatment

These were the findings of the Post Marketing Surveillance (PMS), study of Favipiravir (FabiFlu) on over 1000 patients

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News | 14 September 2021

NHS UK gives green light to a company to detect early-stage cancer by a simple blood test

Results from these studies are expected to be released by 2023. If outcomes from these initial pilots are positive, the studies will be expanded to involve around 1 million participants in 2024 and 2025

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News | 13 September 2021

Boehringer Ingelheim and Twist Bioscience ink antibody discovery collaboration

Research collaboration covers multiple antibody research programs

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News | 13 September 2021

Zydus Cadila seeks approval for a two-dose ZyCoV-D Covid-19 vaccine

The three-dose vaccine approved for EUA contains 2mg for each dose, whereas the two-dose plan will have 3mg in each dose.

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News | 13 September 2021

Granules India recalls one batch of Naproxen Sodium 220mg tablets

One batch has 11.4 million units of Naproxen tablets out of which 0.9 million units that were released into the market were recalled

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News | 10 September 2021

India develops Covid-19 vaccine tracker

The tracker gives week by week coverage of the first and second dose of vaccine and also their effectiveness

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News | 09 September 2021

Telangana commences drone delivery of vaccines from Sept 9

The much-awaited drone delivery trials for the delivery of medicines and vaccines will be held in Vikarabad, Hyderabad from 9th September till 17th October.

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News | 09 September 2021

Evexia Lifecare on expansion mode

The company plans to enter the formulation business in January 2022. It has also opened a branch in Hyderabad to trade pharmaceutical chemicals

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News | 09 September 2021

Equipment shortage and overpriced APIs pinch the pharma industry

A long waiting period for critical equipment and a 50% hike in the cost of APIs imported from China are among the immediate challenges

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News | 08 September 2021

WHO to conduct virtual cGMP for vaccine manufacturing

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has felt the need to conduct this training to build local capacities in poor countries to bridge the gap and enhance local production

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