Monsoon delay has severely affected the pharmaceutical retail trade in India.

USFDA had issued warning letters to Cipla on finding deficiencies in Bangalore facility.

The Mumbai muncipal corporation has decided to open six more swine flu screening centres in Mumbai.

Supreme Court bench ordered that the ongoing trial at the Delhi High Court be expedited.

Indian APIs and generics maker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd has received approval for the antibiotic clindamycin hydrochloride capsules from the US Food and Drug Administration.

Ultrasound procedures or MRI should be considered before prescribing CT scans, alerts new study.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer in women can give rise penis cancer in men too.

Religare, Dr Lal's pathology, Auroprobe and Dang's are the four new laboratories in the private sector selected by the government to conduct RNA testing in New Delhi for the swine flu causing H1N1 influenza A virus.

Children with H1N1 should be promptly treated with with available antivirals like oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanmivir (Relenza) as there are no safety concerns with use of these drugs in children.

Healthy patients with uncomplicated illness need not be treated with antivirals