Did you know?
- The pharmaceutical robot market was worth $64.37 million in 2016 and could surpass $119 million by 2021.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term covering a number of technologies, including machine learning and natural language processing.
- Bringing a new drug to the market is a monumental undertaking in terms of risk, resources and time. Typically, it involves budgeting $2 billion and an average of 10-12 years.
- The percentage of business optimism has improved to 59.67% in December, from 57.08% in November.
- Cipla recalls over 5.8 lakh packets of gastric ulcer treatment drug in US.
- Conditional marketing authorisation, In the EU, CMAs allow for the authorisation of medicines that fulfil an unmet medical need on the basis of less complete data than normally required.
- CDSCO panel recommends approval for trial of Bharat Biotech's nasal vaccine.
- JB Chemicals receives US FDA approval for loratadine tablets, this product is generic version of Clartin tablet.
- Hospido.in launches AI enabled ChatBot named Cancer Dost to provide information on cancer.
- Phase I PLI scheme for bulk drugs gets 215 applications from 83 firms.
- More than 2,800 scientists from 130 countries gathered on January 15 in a virtual forum hosted by the World Health Organization to identify knowledge gaps and set research priorities for vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
- Two new studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection.
