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Suven Life gets product patents from Australia, Hong Kong
Suven Life Sciences Tuesday said it has been granted a product patent each by Australia and Hong Kong for a new chemical entity (NCE) for the treatment of disorders associated with neuro-degenerative diseases. These patents are valid till 2036 and 2033 respectively, the company said in a BSE filing. "We are very pleased by the grant of these patents to Suven for our pipeline of molecules in the Central nervous system (CNS) arena, which are being developed for cognitive disorders with high unmet medical need with a huge market potential globally," Suven Life CEO Venkat Jasti said. The compounds are being developed as therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with neuro-degenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease, attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Huntington's disease, Parkinson's and schizophrenia, it added. Suven Life Sciences shares were trading 0.43 per cent lower at Rs 252.75 apiece on BSE.
Aurobindo Pharma's subsidiary to acquire product under development from Advent Pharmaceuticals
The company's subsidiary - Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc., USA, has entered into an agreement to acquire a product under development and related assets from 'Advent Pharmaceuticals, Australia, through AuroScience, Melbourne, a 100% subsidiary of Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc., USA. The transaction is expected to close in January 2019. The cost of acquisition is USD 12.5 million.
Board of Virinchi appoints director
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Aurobindo to acquire under development product, related assets from Advent for $12.5mn
Drug firm Aurobindo Pharma said Monday its arm Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc has signed a pact to acquire an under-development product and certain related assets from Australian Advent Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd for USD 12.5 million. The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc, has entered into an agreement to acquire a product under development and related assets from Advent Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, Australia, through its subsidiary AuroScience Pty Ltd Melbourne, Aurobindo Pharma said in a filing to BSE. The acquisition is for a cash consideration of USD 12.5 million, it added. The indicative time period for completion of the acquisition is January 2019, Aurobindo Pharma said. The acquisition provides an opportunity to acquire assets that would be used for specialty generics business, it added.
China mulls USD 720,000 fine for faking vaccine tests after scandal
Chinese vaccine manufacturers who falsify test results or break other rules could be fined up to USD 720,000 under a new law proposed after a scandal that fulled public fears over domestically made medicine. The law would regulate areas including production, distribution and use of vaccines, according to a draft posted Sunday on the website of China's market regulator. The country was earlier this year rocked by a scandal that saw a manufacturer of rabies vaccines fabricating records. While authorities say the affected vaccines did not enter the market, the case provoked outrage from consumers fed up with recurring product safety scandals, particularly in pharmaceuticals. Under the proposed law, those who flout the rules can be fined up to 5.0 million yuan (USD 720,000) for offences including submitting false test results, not recalling problematic batches and "other serious illegal acts". "Those who participate in illegal behaviour, shield or connive with violators, hide the facts ...
Bio-scientists are soldiers & generals in battle to safeguard planet: Prez
Bio-scientists are soldiers and generals in the battle to safeguard the planet, President Ram Nath Kovind said Monday as he urged them to find solutions to asthma, respiratory disorders and cancers. Speaking at an event organised by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), he noted that scientists have to fight on four "frontlines"-- environment, lifestyle diseases, infectious diseases and ailments related to brains. The president said personalised and precision medicine, genomic medicine, lab-generated organs, rationalising data privacy with data use for clinical research offer scope for the wellbeing of mankind, but could also pose "bioethical dilemmas as well as legal questions". "Bio-scientists are our soldiers and generals in the battle to safeguard our planet, our species and our future," he said. An enhanced thrust on studying human and animal health in real environments and finding solutions to problems such as asthma, respiratory disorders and cancers is needed, he said. "In ...
In a 1st, UK's Sheffield University to teach about global threat of anti-microbial resistance
The UK's prestigious University of Sheffield will launch the first of its kind degree programme to teach students about the global threat of anti-microbial resistance. The new post-graduate course, MSc Antimicrobial Resistance, has been designed in collaboration with the National Health Service (NHS) to train students for roles in public health, policymaking and scientific research. Students will learn how infections occur, how antibiotics are used to treat them and how the issue of anti-microbial resistance has emerged in response to the widespread use of antibiotics. They will also learn about the political and scientific interventions being developed to overcome anti-microbial resistance and complete an in-depth laboratory training programme based on the latest clinical science. The course is led by experts in The Florey Institute, which is leading cutting-edge studies into infectious disease, and the Departments of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and Infection, Immunity and ...
AAP MP Bhagwant Mann donates Rs 20 lakh to Chandigarh hospital
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann has donated Rs 20 lakh to the PGIMER hospital in Chandigarh from his MPLAD funds. According to a release by the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh the money will be used to buy stainless steel patient trolleys for the emergency, advanced trauma centre (ATC) and the new OPD block of the hospital. The fund allocated under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme was transferred by Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur to his counterpart in Chandigarh, officials said. Mann represents Punjab's Sangrur constituency in the Lok Sabha. Over 10,000 patients visit the hospital every day for diagnosis and treatment of their ailments, the hospital said in the release. PGIMER's emergency and ATC have an intake capacity of 110 and 100 patients respectively, where around 600 to 800 patients are admitted at any given time of the day, the release said. The trolleys will help in mitigating the sufferings of
Parrikar condoles death of Ananth Kumar
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who himself is suffering from cancer, on Monday condoled the death of Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizer Ananth Kumar.
Amarinder inaugurates 100-bed hospital in Sangrur
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Monday inaugurated a 100-bed, ultra-modern cancer hospital here. The Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital in Sangrur has been set up with aid from the state government. Plans are afoot for a state-of-the-art oncology training centre at the newly inaugurated hospital, the CM said. Health Minister Brahm Mohindra and PWD Minister Vijay Inder Singla accompanied the CM at the inauguration function. The CM launched a cancer prevention programme for Sangrur district, under which intensive health education on the risk factors and preventive measures for cervix, oral and breast cancer and easy access to diagnosis and treatment would be provided. The chief minister, who later reviewed works for the 300-bed Tata Cancer Hospital at Mullanpur near Chandigarh, said the facility must be made functional by next Diwali. He directed the concerned officials to expedite the construction of the hospital. Amarinder said a tertiary cancer care centre at Fazilka was being ...
PIL in HC for implementation in Delhi law regulating clinical establishments
The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Centre and the AAP government on a public interest litigation claiming that the law for registration and regulation of all clinical establishments has not been implemented in the city despite coming into force in 2012. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao sought the stand of the two governments on the plea which has sought implementation of the Clinical Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Act of 2010. The petition, by a Delhi based woman, has said that the Act prescribes the minimum standard of facilities and services to be provided to patients. "The Act makes it mandatory for registration of all clinical establishments, including diagnostic centres and single-doctor clinics, across all recognised systems of medicine both in the public and the private sector except those run by the armed forces," the plea, filed through advocates Sija Nair Pal and Deepak Kumar Singh, has said. It has claimed that ...
Delhi man gets new heart
A 34-year-old man here got a new lease of life after police created a 3.6-km green corridor to enable a hospital to ferry a human heart in 3.28 minutes, a doctor said.
Gujarat CM condoles death of Ananth Kumar
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Monday condoled the death of Union minister and BJP leader Ananth Kumar. Kumar died at a private hospital in Bengaluru in the early hours of Monday after battling lung cancer. He was 59. "Saddened by the demise of Shri Ananth Kumar Ji - Union Cabinet Minister of Chemicals, Fertilizers & Parliamentary Affairs. I pray for the departed soul. My condolences to family members. Om Shanti..." Rupani said on Twitter. Kumar was suffering from cancer and had come back from the US in October after treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York.
UP MLA Ram Govind Chowdhary critical
Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Ram Govind Chowdhary, who was flown in from Madhya Pradesh after he suffered a cardiac arrest, continues to be "very critical", a doctor at the Medanta hospital here said on Monday.
Pvt hospital docs manhandled over missing medicines
Doctors of a private city hospital alleged that they were abused and manhandled by the relatives of a patient over medicines, which they claimed, had gone missing. An FIR was registered against four unknown people, including a woman, Friday, police said. According to the complaint, three people came to the casualty department of Jaipur Golden Hospital Friday and started arguing with the doctor on duty. "They said they had left medicines at a particular place three days ago when they had come to admit their patient but now the medicines were missing. We tried to explain that as the duty staff has changed, it could not be traced immediately and that it will looked into and they will be informed," a doctor claimed. The people then started started abusing the doctor and thrashed him. Another doctor came to his defence and they beat him up too, the doctor claimed. "Our security staff on duty tried to control the situation but they were manhandled as well. Later, a fourth person joined them
Lupin launches generic pneumonia drug in US
Drug firm Lupin said Monday it has launched the generic Atovaquone oral suspension, which is used for the prevention and treatment of pneumonia, in the US market. The company has launched its Atovaquone oral suspension USP, 750 mg/5 ml, having received an approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) earlier, Lupin said in a filing to BSE. The company's product is the generic version of Glaxosmithkline LLC's Mepron oral suspension in the same strength, it added. As per IQVIA MAT September 2018 data, Atovaquone oral suspension USP, 750 mg/5 ml had annual sales of around USD 119 million in the US, Lupin said. The product is indicated for the prevention of pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) in adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older who cannot tolerate trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. It is also for the treatment of mild-to-moderate PCP in adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older who cannot tolerate trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, it added. Shares of .
Lupin launches generic Atovaquone Oral Suspension USP in US market
Lupin's Atovaquone Oral Suspension USP, 750 mg/5 mL is the generic equivalent of Glaxosmithkline LLC's Mepron oral suspension 750 mg/5 ml. It is indicated for the prevention of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneuomonia (PCP) in adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older who cannot tolerate trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). It is also for the treatment of mild-to-moderate PCP in adults and adolescents aged 13 years and older who cannot tolerate TMP-SMX.
Meal time impacts how much energy we burn: Study
The number of calories people burn changes with the time of day, according to a study which could explain why irregularities in eating and sleeping may make people gain weight. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the US found that when at rest, people burn 10 per cent more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than in the early morning hours. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, reinforce the important role of the circadian clock in governing metabolism. The study could also help explain why irregularities in eating and sleeping schedules due to shift work or other factors may make people more likely to gain weight. "The fact that doing the same thing at one time of day burned so many more calories than doing the same thing at a different time of day surprised us," said Kirsi-Marja Zitting from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. To determine changes over the course of the day in metabolism .
Health check up camp at DLF Gardencity
To promote the idea of healthy living, and spread awareness about the cause, symptoms and remedies of Diabetes, DLF Gardencity organized a special health check up camp on 11th November, Sunday ahead of World Diabetes Day, at the premises of New Town Heights, Sector 90. Dr. Gayatri and Dietitian Pooja Yadav from Rockland Hospital were present to carry out the check-ups and give health related tips and solutions to the residents.Residents from various condominiums across DLF Gardencity came to participate in the camp. The camp included free check up for BP, Sugar and BMI. Dr. Gayatri and Dr. Pooja Yadav told the residents about the measures to keep the body metabolism in a balanced state and lead a healthy life. The participants also availed coupons worth 50% off on annual packages for Diabetes treatment at Rockland Hospital.Diabetes, often referred to by doctors as diabetes mellitus, describes a group of metabolic diseases in which the person has high blood glucose (blood sugar), ...
Irresponsible use of antibiotics linked to poor welfare conditions of dairy animals
World Animal Protection is extremely concerned about the recent incidents of milk contamination coming to light, particularly from peri-urban and urban dairies.Reports about the level of adulteration in milk have previously highlighted public health risks but recent research that found presence of antibiotics in raw milk samples from peri-urban and urban dairies in Gujarat are even more alarming and could be contributing to the risk of Superbugs.Last month the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University reported antibiotics in 20% of milk samples from urban and peri-urban dairy animals in Ahmedabad, noting alarming levels of up to three times the limits tolerated by FSSAI in almost half of these samples. Excessive antibiotics can directly lead to the development of bacteria resistant to important antibiotics for both human and animals which become ineffective to treat us when sick. These are otherwise known as Superbugs and rising as a global problem.The routine overuse of antibiotics in ...