It seems to be two steps forward, one step back for India's Lupin in its efforts to build its business in the U.S. A week after the drugmaker closed a deal that gets it its first U.S. manufacturing facility, another of its plants in India has been found lacking by the FDA. More from FiercePharmaManufacturing
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> An Indian court gave Abbott's India unit and two domestic drugmakers, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Macleods, a temporary reprieve from a ban on several combination meds. Report
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> NIH-funded researcher making progress on nature-inspired 'smart' contact lens. Story
> GE Healthcare JV rolls out digital pathology software for cancer diagnosis. More
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> Roche's new PD-L1 bladder cancer drug could be on the market by September. More
> Roche bets up to $1B on Blueprint's precision medicine platform. Article
Drug Delivery News
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> Harvard team develops blood-brain-barrier-on-a-chip to study drug delivery. Report
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Pharma Manufacturing News
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Pharma Asia News
> India still reviewing prospects for mandated cuts in drug prices. Item
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