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Zydus Lifesciences Limited (including its subsidiaries/ affiliates, hereafter referred to as Zydus) has received final approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to market Dapsone Gel, 7.5%, (USRLD : Aczone® Gel 7.5%). 

Dapsone Gel is used to treat acne and will be manufactured at the group’s topical manufacturing facility at Changodar, Ahmedabad (India). 

Dapsone Gel, 7.5% had annual sales of USD 35.8 mn in the United States (IQVIA MAT March 24).

Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited received an Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) for its Oncology (Injectable and Oral Solid) Formulation Facility at Panelav.

On 8th March, 2024, US FDA Inspection at Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited’s Oncology (Injectable and Oral Solid) Formulation Facility at Panelav.

Gland Pharma Limited, a generic injectable-focused pharmaceutical company, has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for Edaravone Injection, 30 mg/100 mL (0.3 mg/mL) and 60 mg/100 mL (0.6 mg/mL), Single-Dose Bags. 

The Product is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD), Radicava Injection, 30 mg/100 mL (0.3 mg/mL) and 60 mg/100 mL (0.6 mg/mL) of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation. 

AstraZeneca announced that it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a surplus of available updated vaccines since the pandemic.

The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria's marketing authorizations within Europe.

For the first time, the developmental stages of the deadliest human malaria parasite have been mapped in high resolution, allowing researchers to understand this ever-adapting adversary in more detail than previously possible.

Working with human breast and lung cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many times, a hallmark of cancer cells.

The findings, published May 3 in Science, reveal what goes wrong when a group of molecules and enzymes trigger and regulate what’s known as the “cell cycle,” the repetitive process of making new cells out of the cells’ genetic material.