Anadys Pharmaceuticals Invites Investors to Listen to Webcast of Anti-Infectives Panel Discussion at RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it will participate in a panel discussion entitled, "Anti-infectives: Bugs Beware" at the RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. EST (8:00 a.m. PST) at The Westin New York at Times...

Ranbaxy enters into pact with Merck for anti-infective drugs.
NEW DELHI: Ranbaxy Laboratories has signed a strategic product development agreement with German pharma major Merck for drug discovery and clinical development collaboration in the anti-infectives field. As per the deal, the two partners will work together to develop clinically validated anti-bacterial and anti-fungal drug candidates. The agreement is...

Pharma firms rejig portfolios to cash in on lifestyle-segment boom.
Byline: Rupali Mukherjee NEW DELHI: Growing share of the lifestyle segment in the overall pharma market has led drug companies to restructure their product portfolio to tap the huge opportunity. Companies such as Alembic, in which acute therapy (anti-infectives,antibiotics) holds a dominant share, have been...

DSM Anti-Infectives to launch restructuring measures.
DSM Anti-Infectives, the world's largest producer of penicillin and antibiotic products (including amoxicillins and cephalosporins), has announced a drastic package of measures, in accordance with the announcement made during the presentation of DSM's third-quarter results. The aim of the measures is to improve profitability in the short term and...

Anti-infectives. (Drugs, Pregnancy, and Lactation).
This is my fourth and final installment on anti-infectives * Anthelmintics. All three agents in the benzimidazole class of the anthelmintics are rated pregnancy category C. In humans, their bioavailability is extremely low, but increases substantially when taken with fatty foods. There are few data...

Anti-infectives. (Drugs, Pregnancy, and Lactation).
I frequently get calls from physicians who have questions about the safety of different anti-infectives during pregnancy or breast-feeding. In this and future columns, I will review what is known about this large class of drugs when used in these two situations. * Penicillins. There is no...

Antibiotics rule pharma retail market.
Byline: Rupali Mukherjee NEW DELHI: The first quarter (January-March) of this year has witnessed a change in the domestic pharma retail market with antibiotics and anti-bacterial drugs dominating the show in top 10 brands. At least four major antibiotic and antibacterial drugs are figuring in...

Cipla: A good contrarian pick for long-term investors.
Byline: Kiran Kabtta (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) Founded in 1935 as Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Labs, Mumbai-based Cipla is one of the oldest pharma companies in India. It started out as a leading manufacturer of anti-asthma drugs, but now has a well-diversified product portfolio which includes...

Stay invested through Lupin.
Byline: Kiran Kabtta Although the growth in the pharmaceutical sector has slowed down in the past few quarters, a few companies have managed to buck the trend and are growing at a rapid pace. Mumbai-based Lupin is one such company which fits the bill perfectly. ...

NEW DRUG FIGHTS BACTERIAL INFECTIONS IN NOVEL WAY.
Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics. But the emergence of dangerous, multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis and other killer infections means that in the 21st century antibiotics are losing ground against...