As long-haul infections continue to surge, and climate change pushes ticks into new habitats, finding out the causes of these conditions and coming up with cures will become ever more essential. [...]
Getty Images Synopsis Orchid Pharma had outlicensed its experimental antibiotic drug to Allecra Therapeutics of Germany. After years of research that drug has won crucial approvals from the US FDA and European drug regulatory agency. This marks an important milestone. The drug, invented by Indian scientists in 2008, takes a [...]
The ImmunoACT team that worked on India’s first approved CAR-T therapy NexCAR 19; image courtesy: ImmunoACT Synopsis NexCAR 19, India’s first cell therapy to treat a specific form of blood cancer, is showing encouraging results. Now listed at 40 hospitals across the country, its indigenous maker, ImmunoACT, is driving a [...]
antiinflamator pentru durerile de spate Durerea de spate este o problemă comună care afectează oameni de toate vârstele și poate provoca multe simptome diferite. Inflamația, afecțiunile medicale care afectează coloana vertebrală și rănile sau deteriorarea mușchilor și oaselor pot provoca dureri de spate. Există multe modalități de a o trata, [...]
Rajeev Juneja, vice-chairman and managing director, Mankind Pharma; image credit: Company Synopsis While Ramesh Juneja has led Mankind Pharma for three decades, his brother Rajeev kept in tow and took charge of key operations. Suave and yet rustic, the younger Juneja has a unique style to push the 12,000-strong team [...]
Illustration by Sadhana Saxena via AI Synopsis The recent successes of leading pharmaceutical products show that drug companies have been plain lucky to hit the jackpot. While long-term strategies continue to be important, drug makers have often struck gold with pipeline compounds that they had once simply dumped. Does serendipity [...]
Maziar Mike Doustdar, executive VP, Novo Nordisk; image credit: Company Synopsis Novo Nordisk, the most valuable pharmaceutical company in the world, turned 100 last year. While it is largely known for its insulins, its anti-obesity drugs are making waves of late. Maziar Mike Doustdar, executive vice-president, international operations at Novo [...]
India’s smaller cities and hinterland remain a neglected lot even as five-star specialty hospitals flourish in the metros. To have its healthcare parameters on track, India needs an urgent flow of investments in tertiary-care hospitals in tier-II and tier-III cities. But building and managing tertiary-care hospitals isn’t easy. Examples like [...]
Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, the Drug Controller General of India; image credit: Vikas Dandekar Synopsis The pharmaceutical industry, and the central drug regulatory agency, faced a severe reputation crisis following the deaths of 70 children in Gambia due to contaminated cough syrups in 2022. A few months later, Rajeev Raghuvanshi took [...]
Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam with his team of senior scientists; image credit: IIT Madras Synopsis Using indigenous proprietary technology, scientists at the institute are slicing the brain down to one-fifth of a human hair to build a bank of images several times sharper in resolution than sophisticated MRI scans. These images [...]