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Delhi High Court Grants Pfizer Temporary Relief On Cough Syrup Ban

Delhi High Court granted US drugmaker Pfizer an interim injunction on a ban on its popular cough syrup Corex, days after the government ordered it to be prohibited citing a potential risk to humans

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Pfizer Stops Selling Popular Corex Cough Syrup In India After Ban

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc's India unit said on Monday it had stopped selling its popular Corex cough syrup, after regulators banned it saying it was likely to pose a risk to humans

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Antibiotic Combination Marketed By Abbott In India On List Of Banned Drugs

A powerful antibiotic combination that is marketed in India by US pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories is among 344 drug combinations that have been banned by the Indian health authorities

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British King's College Hospital To Set Up Facility In Andhra

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu says the King's College Hospital has agreed to set up a 1,000-bed hospital in new capital Amaravati and plans to set up 11 hospitals in different parts of India

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Pharmaceutical Sector Grows 12 Per Cent In February: Report

Domestic companies grew at a modest pace of 14 per cent as against 19.4 per cent in the same period last year, and an average of 13.3 per cent since April 2015

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India Bans More Than 300 Combination Drugs Sold Illegally

In 2014, India set up a committee to review more than 6,000 combinations that had entered the market based only on state regulators' approval

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Medecins Sans Frontieres Files To Block Pfizer Patent On Pneumonia Vaccine In India

If government granted Pfizer a patent on its Prevnar 13 pneumonia vaccine, Indian firms would not be able to produce affordable versions of it for domestic use or exports

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Teva Set To Win EU Okay For $40.5 Billion Allergan Deal

Teva will gain bigger economies of scale, a crucial element in the low-margin generic drugs business, with the deal, the largest in Israel's corporate history.

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