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The Czech Republic's drug regulator, SUKL, has indicated that price
rises in the country are soaring as the country's market increasingly integrates
with the European Union (EU).
India's government has pledged to adopt any necessary measures to
improve public access to medicines, but officials admit that the country lacks
a world-class regulatory system to ensure this adoption.
Small pharmaceutical companies protested against the Centre's maximum retail
price (MRP)-based central excise duty on medicines saying the new duty structure
has caused 'total disruption' on their margins.
Chugai Pharmaceutical announced its supply plan for anti-influenza drugs Tamiflu
Capsule 75 and Tamiflu Dry Syrup 3 percent for the upcoming 2005-2006 season.
ChondroGene Limited announced that it has entered into clinical collaborations
with Lam Wah EE Hospital and Island Hospital, two leading hospitals in Penang,
Malaysia.
Novartis announced that it has successfully completed an EU type 2 variation
procedure in 14 countries for Diovan (valsartan) for the treatment of people
with heart failure.
Managing director of Algerian
Pharmaceutical Industries Company said on Saturday his country is keen on cooperation
between Iran and Algeria in the field of pharmaceutics, Iran's State News Agency
(IRNA) reported.
Influential South African HIV/AIDS lobby the Treatment Action
Campaign (TAC) has threatened to take the country's health minister to court
over patents on ethical HIV/AIDS drugs.
Drug retailers have failed to implement a controversial decree
issued in Brazil in May, which allows pharmacists to split up and repackage
drugs according to exact dosages specified on prescriptions.