BAYER, Germany

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan fell by 22 percent this year as prices for the drug tumbled causing farmers to switch to other crops, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Pharma majors Ranbaxy, Strides Arcolab and Hetero Drugs have bagged government

New Delhi: India will vaccinate 20 lakh healthcare and emergency services personnel against the deadly H1N1 virus by the end of January using an imported swine flu vaccine.

THE government has decided to let Anglo-American drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) conduct human trials of its swine flu vaccine here to make it available for patients by the year-end, director-general health services (DGHS) Dr RK Srivastava said.

UK-based drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is in talks with the Indian government for introducing its patented drug, Relenza, which is used for the treatment of Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu).

Approaches FDA On Drug Risk Evaluation Rules Which Have Been Cited To Block It

deforestation Kenya evicts settlers Three decades after allotting land to the hunter-gatherer community of Ogiek in Mau forest, the Kenyan government has asked them to leave. The 2,500 Ogiek families have been asked to surrender their title deeds by October. The move, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said, was made to save the country

A study done by the Coalition for Healthy India (CHI), an initiative of the US India Business Council (USIBC), brings the subject of pharmaceutical innovation and drug patents into public discourse.