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April 11, 2013
Increasing local drug production and use of generics are driving a "surge" of global drugmakers entering the markets of the Gulf states through joint ventures with local producers, says a new report.
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January 02, 2013
Russia's government is set to limit state purchasing of pharmaceuticals from overseas, following the country's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to local reports.
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August 23, 2012
Venezuelan government officials have announced moves which will, say industry sources, make the importing of finished and bulk pharmaceutical products a lengthier and more difficult process.
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July 23, 2012
Pharma sales in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - are set to grow by an average of 7% a year to 2020, say new estimates.
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July 04, 2012
The Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) has called on the Indian government to provide more help to domestic drugmakers seeking to export to the US, following Congressional approval for new US FDA user fees.
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April 16, 2012
South Africa's government is finalising a list of more than 70 medicines which must in future be procured from domestic manufacturers.
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December 23, 2011
India has announced a six-month extension of its original deadlines for all drug products destined for export to carry mandatory barcoding.
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November 13, 2011
A new wave of price cuts has been agreed between the UAE Ministry of Health and the pharmaceutical industry, under which the prices of 115 medicines will drop from next January 1.
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June 21, 2011
The US Food and Drug Administration has unveiled a "new global strategy" to manage the number of products it has approved which are then imported.
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June 15, 2011
India's National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has told the government that the prices of patented medicines should be negotiated by a central agency on the basis of a reference pricing system.
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