Glaxo India has acquired the licensing rights to develop and take to the market a new long acting rifampicin molecule from an Italian pharmaceutical company. Rifampicin is the bulk drug that goes

The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) has cautioned the government against the serious implications of ushering in the new product patent regime without adequate and effective

The tiniest and most innocuous touch even the cool breeze of an air-conditioned roon can cause terrible sensations to those suffering from chronic pain. Discoveries about pain and its routes

Duggal : The Municipal Commissioner, Mr V K Duggal, today claimed that recent reports of dengue deaths were "conclusively brought on record " and there was no cause for panic among the general

Tens of thousands of people in India and Bangladesh may be slowly dying from arsenic contents present in water they consume from tubewells, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. In West Bengal

Arsenic has been found in 44 of Bangladesh's 64 districts according to reliable sources in the Public Health and Engineering Department (DPHE). More than 25,000 tests that were done all over the

Pfizer is donating $60m of its drugs to eliminate trachoma in five countries - the latest group to turn its attention to the developing world. The eradication programme, due to be launched early next

US silicon breast implant manufacturer Dow Corning has revealed the details of its billion dollar settlement with thousands of aggrieved women suing the firm. Under the terms of the USD3.2bn

Bangladesh is in midst of what some experts say could be the biggest mass poisoning in history. Dangerous levels of arsenic have been found in the ground water, entering millions of people sip by

Famine in North Korea has now spread to affect government officials, who are forced to mix meager food rations with grass and acorns, senior Red Cross officials said. "A generation of North Korea