Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of azithromycin for injection, a semi-synthetic, macrolide antibiotic that is used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections. Sagent will offer azithromycin in a 500 mg vial for intravenous use. The Company anticipates the launch of azithromycin in April 2009. generic pharmaceutical
ArunA Biomedical, Inc., announced that it will make its CELL-EZ(TM) brand hMC(TM) human mesenchymal progenitor cells commercially available to the research community in mid 2009. Derived from pluripotent human embryonic stem cells, ArunA’s hMC lines will offer unique, highly proliferative uniform populations of mesenchymal cells in a feeder free monolayer culture. The introduction of our CELL-EZ hMC(TM) cell lines is a significant step forward for stem cell research.” Dr. generic pharmaceutical
Discovering new chemotherapy agents is one of the most difficult tasks in medicinal chemistry, and, given the deepening recession, resources are threatening to hit all-time lows. Of the thousands of active compounds synthesized, very few have progressed beyond early clinical development. generic pharmaceutical
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For a shorter version, Indian generic pharmaceutical products have recently been seized at EU ports en route to other LDCs like Brazil as if they were, plainly speaking, contraband. LDCs like India maintain that they are permitted to .International Political Economy Zone: Pacquaio vs. Hatton? Try .
