March 2010

                           Instrumentation

The main parts of IR spectrometer are as follows:

 March 19, 2010 — Simvastatin (Zocor, Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals), used at the highest approved dose of 80 mg, is associated with an increased risk for myopathy, including rhabdomyolysis, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

 With fast-paced advancements in technology, the number of patients diagnosed with systemic fungal infections (SFIs) is expected to increase steadily over the next five years, says a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan entitled Systemic Fungal Infection Therapeutics Market – India.

 The executive vice president and CEO of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, USA, (ASHP) Prof. Dr. Henri R Manasse has said that his organization is contemplating to provide two months free professional training to the qualified and experienced pharmacists from India to see and learn how the hospital pharmacies, clinical pharmacies and community pharmacies are operating in the US.

In a series of raids conducted in several places of the city and in various parts of the state during the last 10 days, the state drug authorities have detected several illegal activities of the pharma traders in which expired and label tampered drugs worth lakhs of rupees were seized from shops of stockists and residences of unlicensed persons

Following the recent license and supply agreement signed between Amarillo Biosciences Inc. (ABI), a US biotechnology firm, and Intas Pharmaceuticals, Intas will soon market world’s first Interferon Lozenges (tablet form) in India.