When a Patent of Big Pharmaceutical blockbuster drug’s gets expiry, generic-drug makers step in. Here are the top-selling generic drugs and the branded drugs they’re displacing. When Big Pharma invents a new drug, it works like a cash machine...

FDA approved Single Dose H1N1 Vaccines. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved four vaccines for the H1N1 influenza virus, while other companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, have reported promising results from clinical studies with a single-dose...

On Sept. 14, 2009, the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public–private partnership between the European Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry, represented by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations...

Global Antiviral/Antibiotics Market Review 2008. The global pharmaceutical markets expanded to $770 billion in 2008. Biotechnology took $120 billion (15,6%) and generic drugs once again increased it share of the global pie to $80 billion (10,4%). The...

Are you going to die if you do not drive a latest Ferrari car to office even you have 2009 models collecting dust in the garage? Maybe no. Drive safe. Are you going to die if you do not have your regular dinner at a Italy restaurant? May be no. Your secretary...

September 3, 2009: As part of its ongoing campaign to lower drug prices and increase access, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) unveiled its latest advocacy campaign challenging Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals over the steep price of its key HIV/AIDS drug,...