Ranbaxy withdraws all its anti-AIDS drugs
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Geneva: India&#39;s top pharmaceutical group Ranbaxy has withdrawn all its anti-retroviral drugs from a World Health Organisation scheme setting minimum quality standards for cheaper anti-AIDS medication aimed at poor countries, the WHO said Tuesday.
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THE Ministry of Health yesterday urged Jamaicans to immediately discontinue the use of the arthritis drug Vioxx (refecoxib), which was pulled off the market yesterday by its manufacturer Merck &amp; Co.
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AstraZeneca Plc has withdrawn its  marketing application for lung cancer pill Iressa in Europe  after the drug failed to help patients live longer in a  clinical study, Europe's third largest drugmaker said on  Tuesday.
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Merck &amp; Co. said on Thursday withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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GENEVA: Giving a severe blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available for the killer disease, the World Health Organisation has said that Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the United Nation&#39;s approved list.
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Sanofi-Aventis said on Friday it was  withdrawing its application to sell obesity drug rimonabant --  its biggest new drug hope -- in the United States.
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German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said it had decided to pull out of clinical testing of Repinotan, a compound used to treat stroke patients, because the drug had not lived up to expectations.
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A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretroviral medications from the World Health Organization&#39;s list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially
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Ranbaxy Laboratories today said the removal of its anti-AIDS drugs from the UN approved list will not have any impact on its top line or bottomline.
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Clinical trials of an anti-virus gel supposed to help protect women against AIDS were cancelled after it was found that those on the treatment were more susceptible to HIV infection, a statement from the World Health Organisation said.
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GENEVA - India&#39;s Hetero Drugs is withdrawing six of its generic versions of antiretroviral drugs from the World Health Organization&#39;s list of approved HIV medicines, saying it is not certain they are biologically the same as the patented drugs.
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AstraZeneca Plc has withdrawn its marketing application for lung cancer pill Iressa in Europe after the drug failed to help patients live longer in a clinical study, Europe's third largest drugmaker said on Tuesday.
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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of  its generic antiretroviral drugs from the WHO's list of  approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Two generic drug products by the Indian  drug maker Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated on  the World Health Organization's recommended list six months  after being removed, a senior WHO official said on Tuesday.
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The Indian drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., has pulled all of its antiretroviral drugs from a World Health Organization (WHO) program that sets minimum quality standards for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs designated for use in poor nations.
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Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the UN&#39;s approved list, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to efforts to make cheaper
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Biopharma firm ends trials for a promising drug and offloads four commercial products.