Metabolic and bariatric surgery offers significantly greater long-term protection against heart attack, stroke and death than widely-used GLP-1 drugs in older adults with obesity and diabetes, according to new real-world analysis study* presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (#ASMBS2026).

Saveetha College of Pharmacy (SIMATS), Chennai, jointly in collaboration with the Indian Pharmaceutical Graduates' Association (IPGA) successfully organized a webinar titled “Pharmacy – World of Opportunities” on May 4, 2026. 

For more than 60 years. Ipca has been a crucial healthcare partner in over 120 countries across the 6 continents. We are a fully-integrated pharmaceutical company that manufactures over 350formulations and 80 APIs for various therapeutic segments. Today, we are one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of over a dozen APIs. These are produced from scratch at fully-automated manufacturing facilities, approved by the world's most discerning drug regulatory authorities like UK-MHRA. EDQM-Europe. and WHO Geneva, among others.

New long-term data from Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) show patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) treated with Omvoh (mirikizumab-mrkz) achieved durable disease clearance through four years of continuous treatment. In the LUCENT-3 open-label extension study, 63.5% of Omvoh-treated patients who achieved disease clearance at one year sustained it at four years.