Commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday pitched for the need to focus on quality and scale to meet a $1-trillion export goal, adding that subsidies alone would not help boost shipments. “Why...

Health researchers have shown that private pharmacists in India can help find tuberculosis patients and direct them for diagnosis and appropriate treatment and curb treatment delays that threaten Indi...

Suven Life Sciences, the Rs 625-crore Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company, has said it will create a wholly owned subsidiary in the US and will invest $75 million (about Rs 525 crore) in its new bu...

Slime is goodSir — Amphibians are important bioindicators. They are key to maintaining the ecological balance. It is thus worrying that many creatures of this class are being threatened with extinct...

Pharma major Lupin Ltd and the US-based AbbVie on Monday announced a partnership to develop and commercialise the former’s novel drug to treat hematological cancers.Under the pact, AbbVie, a biophar...

India’s pharmaceutical industry imports over 70 per cent of key chemical ingredients and will find it challenging to heed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call on Tuesday for self-reliance across se...

It’s been a few years but I clearly remember a visit to a chest ward in a hospital in Patna. Tuberculosis patients, their faces emaciated, lay on their beds, staring, coughing, in despair. These imp...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit us hard, socially, financially and emotionally. By now, we are familiar with the need to flatten the curve by practicing social distancing. But what will happen after ...

Shares of pharmaceutical companies that make anti-malarial drugs gained on Friday after US President Donald Trump said chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria, has been approved by the US Food and D...

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