Health

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd has acquired an eminent portfolio of over-the-counter (OTC) brands in the cough-and-cold, pain, and dermatology categories. The company acquired six OTC brands from Ducere Pharma, including DOAN’S®, BUFFERIN®, NUPERCAINAL® Ointment, CRUEX® Nail Gel, COMTREX®, and MYOFLEX®....

  Dr. Nandu Gattu, Vice President, Drug Repurposing, Excelra. Hyderabad-based Excelra, Asia’s leading knowledge solutions company, has formed a collaboration with H.M. Pharma Consultancy (HMPC), a Austrian life science consulting enterprise, to jointly provide Drug repurposing services to Pharma and...

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has entered into a licensing agreement with Eisai Co., Ltd, Japan by which Dr. Reddy’s will be granted exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights (excluding Japan and Asia) for Eisai’s investigational anticancer agent E7777. Eisai will be...

Quantel Medica, a global ophthalmic medical device company dedicated to developing leading technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases, has been awarded a €3 million competitive tender for ophthalmic laser equipment. Under the terms of a supply...

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and XenoPort, Inc. have entered into a license agreement pursuant to which Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories will be granted exclusive U.S. rights for the development and commercialization of XenoPort’s clinical-stage oral new chemical entity, XP23829. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories...

Dr. Reddy’s and TR-Pharm has announced a strategic collaboration agreement involving 3 biosimilar products. A total of three products will be registered and subsequently commercialized as a part of this agreement by TR-Pharm in Turkey. TR-Pharm will also manufacture the drug...

Manipal Hospitals is the first hospital in India to install Masimo Patient SafetyNet™, a remote monitoring and clinician notification system. “With Patient SafetyNet, we are now able to monitor a certain set of patients 24x7,” said Gopal Devanahalli, Chief Operating...

Strand Life Sciences, a global genomic profiling company aimed at empowering personalized cancer care and genetic testing for inherited diseases, announced that its Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) laboratory, the Strand Center for Genomics & Personalized Medicine, located at Bangalore, has recently...

Waltham-based PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, has expanded its footprint in India with the opening of a new diagnostics facility in Chennai. The laboratory will provide a comprehensive...

India’s Ideal Cures Pvt. Ltd, a global company, manufacturer, global supplier and provider of technical support for pharmaceutical coatings and excipients, has set up a representative office in the United States. It has appointed Dr. Kamlesh Oza, Ph. D. as...