August 2010

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE: RDY) is an emerging global pharmaceutical company with proven research capabilities. The company is vertically integrated with a presence across the pharmaceutical value chain. It produces finished dosage forms, active pharmaceutical ingredients and biotechnology products and markets them globally, with focus on India, US, Europe and Russia.

The Training and Development effort at Colgate-Palmolive is a direct outcome of the Individual Development Plan and the Business need. The business critical and individual specific needs are identified every year and a training needs inventory is drawn up.

Symbiotec Pharmalab Ltd., a cortico-steroids API manufacturing company based at Indore in Central India is in the business of development, production and marketing of research-based cortico steroids.

Prophylactic gentamicin-collagen sponges do not appear to significantly decrease infection rate compared with no intervention in patients undergoing colorectal surgery, according to the findings of a large randomized phase 3 trial.

Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany, announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing a New Drug Application to the US for gadobutrol injection, a gadolinium-based contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

In patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), deep brain stimulation (DBS) modulates specific brain circuits important in memory and is safe, according to results of the first phase 1 study of DBS for AD, published online July 30 in the Annals of Neurology.

People infected with Hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to a study published in Lancet Oncology. Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer, and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma.