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The Guardian – World · Europe
Prestige Brand Holdings has voluntarily recalled a batch of its Clear Eyes eye drops after FDA alertNearly 40,000 bottles of eye drops are being pulled from st…
Deutsche Welle (DW) – World · Europe
Researchers in Munich and Stockholm blocked the lifelong social cost of early adversity in mice with a single compound. The catch: it only worked when given du…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Global pharmaceutical giants are doubling down on investing in China’s fast-growing biotech companies given the sector’s huge room for valuation growth, accord…
Your Story · India
The Bengaluru-based company builds models that generate molecules and predict how they will behave, and has licensed its lead candidate to a US developer.
The Guardian – World · Europe
Tie-up would be one of the biggest pharmaceutical deals ever and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker Business live – latest updatesBritain’s biggest dr…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Best known as Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil started off as a treatment for reduced blood flow but soon saw its value spike after its other e…
Your Story · India
The Bengaluru-based company uses AI-led discovery to search for small molecules that act on the same receptors as injectable GLP-1 drugs, aiming for a cheaper …
Wired · Global
The opioid-like compound, which is found in kratom, can cause brutal withdrawal symptoms and will soon be a controlled substance. Some users tell WIRED it has …
Wired · Global
Outside experts—some with a vested interest in peptides—recommended adding a number of the amino acids to the FDA’s bulks list, including the “Wolverine stack”…
MIT Technology Review · Global
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a signif…
Al Jazeera – News · Middle East
FDA has questioned the evidence as demand surges for the compounds promoted for sleep, muscle growth, and anti-ageing.
Wired · Global
The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.
South China Morning Post – World · China
Domestically produced novel drugs accounted for more than 80 per cent of market approvals in China in the first half of the year, reflecting a “leap” in the qu…
South China Morning Post – World · China
From rare earth elements to commercial drones, Washington has become all too familiar with the strongest weapons in Beijing’s manufacturing arsenal – the mater…
South China Morning Post – World · China
China has banned tiletamine, a common veterinary anaesthetic, after its recreational inhalation among young people escalated sharply. Since July 1, the compoun…
The Guardian – World · Europe
Exclusive: Fears that US companies may withdraw more medicines as global markets react to policy changes by the Trump administrationGet our breaking news email…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Home-grown innovative drugs make up most of the medicines China’s drug regulator has approved for sale so far this year, underscoring the country’s biotech boo…
Times of India – World · India
Rajasthan's Drug Control Department has banned TOCIN (Oxytocin Injection 5 ml) manufactured by Jackson Laboratories Pvt Ltd after a sample failed quality tests…
Deutsche Welle (DW) – World · Europe
A new agreement aims to tackle the drug shortages that have plagued the bloc. Among other things, it would make it easier to use public funds to support the pr…
The Guardian – World · Europe
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds several clinics making potentially unlawful claims about benefits of unregulated therapiesWhat are peptides, are they s…
South China Morning Post – World · China
An innovative therapy using pig semen-derived exosomes, engineered into eye drops capable of penetrating deep into retinal tissue, may hold the key to breachin…
Wired · Global
Eli Lilly’s once-daily Foundayo is the second obesity pill to receive FDA approval. It will compete with Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy.
Times of India – World · India
- Rupali is a journalist with 20 years of experience in consumer sectors, now focusing on pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and consumer trends. - Financial calcu…
South China Morning Post – World · China
CK Life Sciences, a unit of Li Ka-shing-backed CK Group, plans to bring its cancer vaccine candidates to mainland China through a “fast track” channel as Beiji…
Times of India – World · India
A study published in Science Advances by Baylor College of Medicine has uncovered a hidden brain pathway that helps explain how metformin lowers blood sugar, o…
Your Story · India
Drug discovery has long been defined by time, cost, and repeated failure. Medvolt AI is using OpenAI-enabled intelligence to reduce experimental cycles and mov…
South China Morning Post – World · China
At least 10 weight-loss injections and oral pills are lining up for regulatory approval in China, in a market projected to reach about US$14 billion by 2030. N…
South China Morning Post – World · China
US biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences agreed to buy Ouro Medicines, which is developing an antibody-based medicine for autoimmune diseases licensed from…
South China Morning Post – World · China
AstraZeneca said it would establish drug manufacturing facilities in Guangzhou and Shanghai as well as a separate innovation centre in Shanghai, joining a grou…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Namita Joshi made a New Year’s resolution in January to tackle one of her long-standing problems: being overweight. A key part of her slimming journey is her w…
The New York Times – World · US
In India, China and several other nations, Novo Nordisk is on the verge of losing patent protection for its blockbuster weight loss drug, opening the door for …
South China Morning Post – World · China
Eli Lilly has pledged an additional US$3 billion investment in China over the next decade to strengthen its local supply chain and manufacturing capabilities, …
South China Morning Post – World · China
Hong Kong authorities have arrested a 30-year-old woman on suspicion of illegally selling poisons and unregistered pharmaceutical products, after an undercover…
South China Morning Post – World · China
Hong Kong-listed mainland Chinese pharmaceutical companies are on track to deliver full-year profits, as surging drug sales and lucrative out-licensing deals w…
BBC News – World · Europe
Growing numbers of people are injecting unregulated peptides for health reasons - but one expert says they are "lab rats".
The New York Times – World · US
Ozempic and similar weight-loss medications are hailed as miracle drugs. But there are plenty of unknowns about long-term use.
The Guardian – World · Europe
Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectationsBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of Wegovy and Ozemp…
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