Indian generic players reported strong sales growth during the first quarter of the financial year 2009-'10, despite odds like hostile US FDA actions and depreciating Indian currency, according to a sector report by the Mumbai-based equity broking firm Enam Securities Ltd.

Ibuprofen creams and rubs meant for topical application for pain relief could go off the shelves in US pharmacies very soon.

  Fainting is likely caused by anxiety over the injection and pain associated with the shot, says Merck Gardasil, the vaccine against cervical cancer, causes fainting as its most commmon side effects following the injection.

More than two dozen new infectious disease-causing bugs have emerged in india during the last 30 years.

Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech Co has claimed to have developed a single shot vaccine against the swine-flu causing H1N1 Influenza A strain virus.