A private pharmaceutical firm in Bangladesh was ordered to be sealed after 24 children died on consuming paracetamol suspension, an official said.

The drug administration ordered the firm to suspend manufacturing and marketing of their products including vitamin and paracetamol suspension, New Age said Thursday.

The government ordered a seven-member committee to probe the cause of deaths.

New Delhi: After Natco Pharma

THE government has decided to take off the shelves an anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, in India that is already banned the world over. Sold locally under several brands, the drug when used as a single drug can make malaria parasites resistant to the medicine.

Big pharma companies are already working on an H1N1 swine flu vaccine (Bloomberg) Even as the number of swine flu victims cross 100 in the country, Indian pharmaceutical companies are yet to start manufacturing the much-awaited vaccine as they have not received any purchase commitment from the government.

Nina Mehta MUMBAI

Swine flu cases cross 250 mark

To Challenge Intellectual Property Appellate Board Verdict Rejecting Its Patent Plea For Cancer Drug
Nina Mehta MUMBAI

THE Indian subsidiary of Swiss drugmaker Novartis will challenge a decision by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) that said its cancer drug Glivec was not patentable.

THE government is working to revive a ministerial panel which was set up to finalise a national pharmaceutical policy that has been hotly contested because it seeks to vastly expand the number of drugs under price control.

Bharat Bio, Panacea & Serum Institute Can Begin Tests
Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI

INDIA