FDA confirms printed prescription drug ads affect consumer understanding of medications

Findings from three studies conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirm that the way information is conveyed and displayed in printed drug advertising affects consumer understanding of

Risperidone recall by J&J

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., a unit of Johnson & Johnson, recalled about 16,000 bottles of its Risperdal schizophrenia drug on reports of an uncharacterist

Pfizer Begins Court Proceedings to Protect Viagra Patent

Pfizer will begin court proceedings in Virginia, US, today to fight to keep the exclusive rights to sell Viagra (sildenafil citrate) through to 2019. The company, based in New York, sued generic ma

'Cell membrane capsules' made from real living cells improve functional drug delivery

The quest for better ways of encapsulating medicine so that it can reach diseased parts of the body has led scientists to harness - for the first time - living human cells to produce natural capsules

SFDA Commissioner Shao Mingli meets Director of Health of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

On the morning of June 10, 2011, Shao Mingli, Commissioner of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and Dr. P.Y. LAM, Director of Health of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrati

New FDA rules for sunscreen labels

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this Tuesday released new rules that specify sunscreens’ labeling. The rules specify which lotions protect the skin and which do not.

SFDA sets limit standard for residual sulphur dioxide in Chinese crude drugs and prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs

In order to prevent abuse or excessive usage of sulphur fumigation in the primary processing of Chinese crude drugs and ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicines, t

Phexcom Pharma Excipients&Drug Preparation Technical Service(Guangzhou) Centre was set up

Phexcom Pharma Excipients&Drug Preparation Technical Service(Guangzhou) Centre was set up in Haizhu Science Park on 3 June,2011. The centre provides technical exchange platform for Pharma excipien

Breckenridge receives final FDA approval for Letrozole ANDA

Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. announced today the immediate launch of Letrozole 2.5 mg Tablets. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted final approval for the Abbreviated New Drug Applic

Larger trial study needed to decide fate of niacinNiaspan is a cholesterol drug manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. Doctors have customarily prescribed Niacin to raise levels of HDL ("good" cholesterol) in patients taking a statin pill that is successfully lowering their LDL ("bad" cholesterol). Yet this practice is now being questioned after a National Institutes of Health study released in late May, called AIM-HIGH, showed that Niaspan failed to prevent heart attacks and slightly raised the risk of a stroke when combined with the cholesterol drug Zocor (simvastatin).

Niaspan is a cholesterol drug manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. Doctors have customarily prescribed Niacin to raise levels of HDL ("good" cholesterol) in patients taking a statin pill that is succe