India's Apollo Hospitals beats Q1 profit estimates on strong demand
May 10, 2020: The credit rating agency ICRA has revised its outlook on the Indian pharmaceutical industry to stable from negative in view of the easing of supply chain disruptions resulting from lockdown in parts of China following the outbreak of the coronavirus. The outlook was made negative earlier during the year, following supply chain disruptions related to critical API/ intermediates from China.
Most people prescribed antibiotics for sinus infections are on treatment courses of 10 days or longer even though infectious disease doctors recommend five to seven days for uncomplicated cases, a U.S. study suggests.
Raw material supply problems that impacted its penicillin business last year have been resolved according to Reig Jofre.
I have long had severe reservations about quinolone antibiotics, like Levaquin and Cipro. I have had these concerns since I conducted clinical trials to test new antibiotics (including a variety of quinolones) before they went to market. Now I have further concerns about them because of their overuse as an alternative to busy physicians trying to puzzle out what’s wrong with the patient, and because practice “guidelines” promote their overuse.
The last drug has fallen. Bacteria carrying a gene that allows them to resist polymyxins, the antibiotics of last resort for some kinds of infection, have been found in Denmark and China, prompting a global search for the gene.
In phone calls to Washington lawmakers and Obama administration officials, the chief executive of the largest drug maker in the nation had a surprising message: A deal that would allow the company to move its headquarters to Ireland was actually good for the United States.
The government is working on a package to incentivise both state-run and private companies to produce ingredients that are used in making medicines as part of a plan to reduce dependence on China and boost the 'Make in India' programme.
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