Healthcare & Pharmaceutical

Diabetes affects one in 19 persons around the world, according to Google’s research. Just imagine if all these people could forget about pricking their fingers several times a da

Tripling tobacco taxes globally would decrease smoking rates by a third and avoid 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other sicknesses such as heart disease, stroke,

AstraZeneca PLC, the global pharmaceutical giant and the UK’s second biggest drug company, informed that it planned to restructure itself by introducing downsizing program and re

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. informed that it would acquire buy Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. for $2.6 billion in cash. The deal will add Botox competitor Dysport and

Many reasons have been cited for these 2011 drug shortages. A recent study from the IMS Institute found that health manufacturing problems, discontinuations and suspension of produ

Bye-bye Vasectomies (and if women can have it their way, bye-bye oral contraceptive pills too) ! This wonder drug, which has been developed at the Indian Institute of Technology i

In what could possibly be a breakthrough in the process of whole-body imaging, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed the first

With a never-before seen strain of E. Coli having reportedly affected 1600 people across Europe, scientists are calling the new bug super-toxic. And while primary suspicion for tra

British American Tobacco (BAT), estimated to be the world’s second largest tobacco group by global market share, has confirmed reports of having established Nicoventures Limited,