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Otsuka loses lawsuit challenging FDA approval of generic Abilify

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has lost a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow generic versions of the company’s antipsychotic drug Abilify. At the end of April, the FDA approved applications to make Abilify by several generic drugmakers, including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, which immediately announced it would launch its own version. Otsuka sued the FDA in March saying it had an exclusive right to make

Economic growth halves hunger in Asia over 25 years: U.N.

By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Economic growth helped the Asia-Pacific region to halve the proportion of those who have too little to eat to 12 percent of its population over the past 25 years, meeting one of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, U.N. officials said on Thursday. The target, one of eight international development goals set by the United Nations in 2000, was to halve the proportion

Our Children Are Being Harmed – Should We Stand Idly by?

In an fascinating experiment, undercover investigators from the New York State Liquor Authority visited almost 1000 NYC stores in 2014 to test whether they would sell to underage buyers. Shockingly, not 10%, not a quarter, not half, but almost 60% of NYC stores sold to underage buyers.Take a minute to understand what that means – if you are…