Tag: pharmaceutical

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:03 UTC

  Argentine pharmaceuticals agree to freeze meds prices

  

  The Government of Argentina and the local pharmaceutical companies have agreed to freeze the price of medications until Jan. 7, 2022, the Health Ministry and the Domestic Trade Secretariat announced Monday.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  US jury considers glyphosate “a substantial factor” in causing human cancer

  

  A US jury has found that one of the world's most widely-used weed-killers was a “substantial factor” in causing a man's cancer. Pharmaceutical group Bayer had strongly rejected claims that its glyphosate-based Roundup product was carcinogenic. But the jury in San Francisco ruled unanimously that it contributed to causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in California resident Edwin Hardeman.

• Wednesday, March 12th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  Manufacturing remains the weakest link of the Brazilian economy

  

  Industrial production in Brazil rose 2.9% in January from December, government statistics agency IBGE said on Tuesday led by a jump in capital goods production.