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A Japanese finance ministry panel has outlined plans to restructure
the National Health Insurance pricing system in order to promote generic medicines.
Viragen, and its majority-owned subsidiary, Viragen International, today announced
the approval of Multiferon, natural human alpha interferon, for sale in Chile.
SkyePharma on Monday said German regulators approved its Foradil Certihaler
treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, making Germany
the sixth European country to green-light the drug.
Bioniche Life Sciences, a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical
company, today announced that the Canadian arm of its Pharma Division (Bioniche
Pharma Canada Limited) is initiating a Class 1 recall of Betac, (NDC 62086-139-50/DIN
02245625), an injectable ascorbic acid product that is produced at the Bioniche
Pharma Group Limited's sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Galway,
Ireland.
Pharmaceuticals made of herbs account for just 2 percent total of the patents
on medicines registered so far in Viet Nam, said the Viet Nam Intellectual Property
Department.
Bogus pharmacists, people stealing the identities of real pharmacists and those
committing pharmaceutical fraud will be among the targets of a new partnership
between the NHS Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS) and the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain (RPSGB).