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SECTOR | 01 Jun 2025, 08:45PM

Global meet on medical devices

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Geneva to host WHO Global Forum on Medical Devices

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 31 May 2025

TDB backs India's first indigenous stroke treatment device manufacturing

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The company will establish an integrated manufacturing plant at the Medical Devices Park in Oragadam, Chennai, to produce mechanical thrombectomy kits used for treating acute ischemic stroke

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 26 May 2025

Biocon share rises as arm secures UK MHRA nod for plaque psoriasis drug

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Biocon share rose after arm, Biocon Biologics, was granted market authorisation in the UK for Yesintek, a biosimilar of Ustekinumab, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 20 May 2025

Pfizer Share Price Surges After Q4 Profit Jumps, Margin Improves

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In February, Pfizer had signed a sales and marketing pact with Mylan Pharmaceuticals Pvt.

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 19 May 2025

WHO opens annual meet amid crisis sparked by US funding cuts, exit plans

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The World Health Organisation on Monday opened its annual meeting of government ministers and other top envoys facing one of the most serious crises of its 77-year history in the wake of Trump administration funding cuts and plans to withdraw the United States. The UN health agency this year has seen a plunge in its ability to carry out its sweeping mandate to do everything from recommend reductions in sugar levels in soft drinks to head the global response to pandemics like COVID-19 or outbreaks like polio or Ebola. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been grappling with a response to the US cuts as well as reduced outlays from other traditional Western donors who are putting more money toward defense and less toward humanitarian aid. Matthew Kavanagh, the director of Georgetown University's centre for Global Health Policy and Politics, said other countries have used the US disruption the cut in aid as cover to do their maneuvering, with many countries in Europe...

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 13 May 2025

Trump's Drug-Price Order Won't Impact Indian Pharma Companies: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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Trump has issued an executive order, directing drugmakers to lower the prices of medicines to align with what other countries pay.

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 12 May 2025

Trump's drug price plan sends ripples through Indian Pharma sector

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Trump's anticipated announcement threatens to implement a most favoured nation policy that could potentially reduce US drug prices by 30-80%

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 09 May 2025

India To Reduce Import Duties On Medical Devices Covered In PLI Scheme Under FTA With UK

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While the import duty on the sector is up to 7.5% in India, it stands at 4.2% in the UK.

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 07 May 2025

Medical device company share price zooms 47% in 1 month. Do you own?

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Poly Medicure, a leading medical device company with a dominant position in India's medical consumables market, rallied 5 per cent to 2,922 on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day trade.

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech.

SECTOR | 04 May 2025

Medicines are just one part of the solution: Zydus' Sharvil Patel

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Zydus MD Sharvil Patel says the company is going beyond pharma into med-tech, diagnostics, and rare diseases, aiming for a global footprint while retaining India as the manufacturing hub