Pricing and Reimbursement in Key Asia Pacific Markets

With the Asia-Pacific markets growing rapidly, they are becoming increasingly attractive for Pharma to enter. However, a number of key P&R developments and reforms are set to change the healthcare environment in the next few years, as healthcare is made more accessible to the poor and elderly.

Key Trends in Offshoring Pharmaceutical R&D: Company strategies, emerging markets and impact on ROI

‘Key Trends in Offshoring Pharmaceutical R&D' is a report published by Business Insights that evaluates the offshore R&D strategies that can reduce development times and improve productivity, with analysis of a variety of strategic partnerships, academic collaborations, and outsourcing opportunities.

World Vaccine Congress Asia: vast regional diversity requires flexibility and targeted portfolios

Spanning one third of the globe's circumference and home to more than half of the world's population, the Asia Pacific region is incredibly diverse. This year's World Vaccine Congress Asia highlighted the enormous variation in the vaccine landscape in the region, owing to a myriad of political, cultural, economic and geographic differences.

Gastric Cancer - Targeted therapies compete for first-to-market status

Gastric cancer incidence in 2009 is forecast to be 197,000 in the seven major pharmaceutical markets (US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and UK). Although, the global incidence has decreased in recent years, mortality remains high, particularly in the US and Europe. Therefore, predictably a high unmet need remains for effective therapies to improve mortality.

ASCO meeting 2009: current blockbusters advance standard care in new indications

Datamonitor attended the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 45th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, to assess the key highlights of the conference. A number of promising presentations evaluated the potential of currently marketed agents to successfully combine with conventional chemotherapy in indications with persistent high unmet needs.

MALARIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH HERBAL TREATMENT

The success of the antimalarial drug quinine and the discovery of artemisinin, the most potent antimalarial drug, both from plant sources, has led to the study of plants as antimalarial agents. The ethnopharmacological approach for the search of new antimalarial agents from plant sources has proved to be more predictive. In India the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP), started in 1958, achieved near complete disappearance of the disease in 1960s.

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Pharmaceuticals: Global Industry Almanac

Datamonitor's Pharmaceuticals: Extended Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Pharmaceuticals industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

The pharmaceutical industry faces unprecedented barriers to evolution

Despite the pharmaceutical industry's evolving business model in response to growing regulatory constraints, the sector is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the economic downturn and President Obama's planned overhaul of the US healthcare system. To continue on its journey towards 'Pharma 2.0', the industry must balance the more pressing short term issues against longer term trends.

APA meeting 2009: new schizophrenia products and depot formulations

The annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association is the year's largest psychiatry event. This year's conference in San Francisco indicated that long-acting depot versions of atypical antipsychotics continue to prove useful tools in the treatment of schizophrenia. In addition, new potential market entrants reported mixed data from new oral antipsychotics.

Schizophrenia - Second generation depots protect market value

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental health disorder affecting around 4.6 million schizophrenia sufferers across the seven major markets. Currently led by oral branded atypical antipsychotics, the schizophrenia market will undergo some big changes over the period 2008/2017. Prospective players can expect to face stiff competition from generic versions of all currently branded drugs.

Commercial dynamics and outlook of the neurology, pain and psychiatry market sectors

The market for CNS drugs across the 7MM was worth a substantial $95.5 billion, accounting for a 21.4% share of the total pharmaceutical market value in 2007. Despite stalling R&D productivity and the genericization of the majority of leading CNS blockbuster brands, the market continues to offer a wealth of lucrative opportunities for all types of drug manufacturer.

API Manufacturer from India - Looking for Strategic Investor

Company was estabilished in the year 2004 by a group of technocrats from renowned Dr.Reddys Laboratories Limited. All the key personnel have expertise in their respective areas of specialization. Strong R&D, Analytical capabilities, versatile human resources and well vision management are the core competencies of the company.
Today the Group is operating with one Intermediate manufacturing unit and one API manufacturing unit both are located in Pashamylaram IDA, 25 KMs away from Hyderabad.

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF FLOATING TABLETS OF CEFUROXIME AXETIL

The aim of the present work was to design and development of hydrodynamically balanced tablet of cefuroxime axetil to enhance the bioavailability and therapeutic efficacy of the drug. Cefuroxime axetil is classified as a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic and beta lactum antibiotics based on spectrum activity. Tablets are prepared by the direct compression technique by using HPMC K4M and mannitol as polymers along with sodium bi carbonate as gas generating agent. Formulation were evaluated for in vitro byoyancy and drug release study using up dissolation apparatus using 0.1N Hcl as a medium.The result indicate that floating tablets of dissolation cefuroxime axetil containg 45mg HPMC K4M provides a better option for control release action and improved bioavailability.

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GCC healthcare: in pursuit of western standards

The healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries is currently undergoing a wave of reforms intended to achieve and sustain international standards of healthcare delivery. Datamonitor believes that the region has the potential to achieve these aims if it reforms healthcare insurance, develops a workforce of healthcare professionals, and accepts the use of generic pharmaceuticals.

RECENT TRENDS IN DRUGS USED FOR TREATMENT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Parkinson's disease is a disease of the nervous system that causes people to lose control over their muscles. About one in every 250 people over the age of 40, and about one in every 100 people aged 65 or older, are affected by Parkinson's disease. Although the average age of onset is 57, Parkinson's occasionally appears in childhood. Men are more likely to develop Parkinson's than women. In itself, Parkinson's is not a fatal condition.

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DRUG USED IN TREATMENT OF ASTHMA

Asthma is a disease that affects the breathing passages of the lungs (bronchioles). Asthma is caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) inflammation of these passages. This makes the breathing passages, or airways, of the person with asthma highly sensitive to various "triggers."When the inflammation is "triggered" by any number of external and internal factors, the passages swell and fill with mucus. Muscles within the breathing passages contract (bronchospasm), causing even further narrowing of the airways. This narrowing makes it difficult for air to be breathed out (exhaled) from the lungs. This resistance to exhaling leads to the typical symptoms of an asthma attack.

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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON BACTERIAL MENINGITIS

Bacterial meningitis is found worldwide. The bacteria often live harmlessly in a person's mouth and throat. In rare instances, however, they can break through the body's immune defenses and travel to the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. There they begin to multiply quickly. Soon, the thin membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord (meninges) becomes swollen and inflamed, leading to the classic symptoms of meningitis. The bacteria are spread by direct close contact with the discharges from the nose or throat of an infected person.

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Turkey - Pharmaceutical Company for Sale

Outside the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) states, Turkey is considered one of the key growth pharmaceutical markets globally. Growth has been rapid in recent years, with per capita spending reaching US$159 in 2008, a similar level to other emerging countries in Eastern Europe. The country's large, ageing and increasingly urbanised population, means both demand and access to medicines should increase in the future. Over the next five years, sales of pharmaceuticals, which include prescription drugs and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, will increase from US$11.3bn to US$19.5bn, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.6%.