The government is expected to soften its stand on the export ban initiated for 53 plants and their derivatives to enable ayrvedic drug manufacturers get more than a toe-hold in the international

MERCK & Co said it won US Food and Drug Administration approval of its new asthma drug, Singulair.Singulair is a once-a-day pill for the treatment and prevention of

A Chinese bio-chemical pharmaceutical factory in Wuhan City of Central China's Hubei Province has begun the cultivation of bow-bezoar or cow-gallstone, a very precious medicinal material for

Doctors in Germany have developed an experimental drug that creates the blood supply to the human heart within days after injection, according to a report in an American medical journal. It is the

Scientitsts have made human hearts grow tiny new blood vessels by injecting proteins, raising hopes that the procedure may one day be used to treat people with clogged heart arteries. The study was

British scientists are developing an artificial pancreas that could save diabetics from the pain of daily injections. The device. which researchers hope could be implanted in the Patient's abdomen,

Indian rabbits could, at last heave a sigh of relief if the Bangalore-based pharmaceutical equipment distributor's grand plans to domestically produce a reagent for testing fever-causing pyrogens

Blood transfusions can be hazardous, even after matching the blood group and tests for various viral infections are performed, according to Prof Mammen Chandy of the CMC hopsital in Vellore. Speaking

In New Zealand tobacconists can breathe easy. The "T" world that has caused such angst is to be allowed to remain in the Yellow Pages. The Ministry of Health sought legal advice on whether the

Experts from various disciplines of Indian system of medicines (ISM) have emphasised the need for an action plan for the development and maintenance of the traditional system of treatments of the