The US Food and Drug Administration has given organisations until 3 September to apply for grants to develop new animal drugs intended for minor species or minor uses in major species 1 ,2 . The grants, established under US legislation, could range ...
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in east Africa are planning to launch a new regional pharmaceutical industry trade association in June to help develop proposals for a possible common drug dossier for the four countries. ?With the harmonisation of ...
The US Pharmacopeial Convention is expanding its Indian operations, buoyed by the growth of the Indian pharmaceutical sector and increased demand for its products and services. The USP is a non-profit scientific organisation that sets standards for ...
Cough and cold medicines in New Zealand that contain dextromethorphan and phenylephrine will from 1 May 2011 no longer be sold in supermarkets for children under 12 years of age and will instead be sold in pharmacies only 1 . New Zealand's ...
China and Taiwan have signed a wide-ranging bilateral agreement on the protection of intellectual property rights, which lays down major principles with implications for many products, including pharmaceuticals 1 . The Cross-Strait Agreement on IPR ...
It's common knowledge that the US and European Union drug regulators often reach different conclusions as to whether a pharmaceutical product should be approved, withdrawn or restricted. Those differences have been thrown into even sharper relief by ...
Civil servants at the Department of Health in London are quietly working on what may turn out to be a whole new pricing system for medicines in the UK following the publication of the coalition government's white paper on the National Health ...
Vince Postill compares two anti-counterfeiting technologies and explains why mass serialisation may be the better solution. Whilst patients may be unaware about the true risk of drug counterfeiting, the pharmaceutical industry is far from ...
The World Trade Organisation will hold a joint meeting on 16 July with the World Intellectual Property Organisation and the World Health Organisation to discuss how pricing and procurement can affect access to medicines 1 . The meeting, which will ...
If the state of clinical research in South Africa continues on its current downward path, it will not be able to sustain ?solid research capacity in the clinical domain?, according to a report by the Academy of Science of South Africa 1 . The ...
The branded pharmaceutical industry has criticised a decision by the government of Ecuador to grant a compulsory licence for the ritonavir component of Abbott?s combination antiretroviral Kaletra, saying it undermines the patent system 1 . The ...
Michael Rosenberg explains how adaptive monitoring can be a better way of tracking investigative site quality and performance. You never thought it possible: the clinical trial under your organisation's management is coming under fire for ...
