The world is preparing to move past the global COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people as vaccines begin to roll out to the public.The UK is expected to distribute Pfizer's vaccine for the novel coronavirus this week after British authorities approved it for emergency use...
সম্প্রতি বন্ধ ঘোষিত গ্লাক্সোস্মিথক্লাইন (জিএসকে) বাংলাদেশ লিমিটেডের চট্টগ্রামের ওষুধ কারখানায় ব্যবহৃত ক্রিম ও অয়েন্টমেন্ট জাতীয় ওষুধের উৎপাদন ও মান নিয়ন্ত্রণের বেশ কিছু সরঞ্জাম কিনে নিতে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির সঙ্গে চুক্তিবদ্ধ হয়েছে নতুন প্রতিষ্ঠান ডিবিএল ফর্মাসিউটিক্যালস। বেটনোভেট, নিওবেক্রিনসহ বেশ কয়েকটি বহুল ব্যবহৃত ওষুধ তৈরিতে জিএসকে এই...
Bangladesh has urged US investors to set up Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plants in Bangladesh to ensure its availability at lower cost for people of the country. An inter-session meeting of Bangladesh and USA in the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) was held...
American business magazine Forbes has added three Bangladeshi companies to its "Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion list". The list highlights 200 Asia-Pacific public companies with sales under $1 billion US Dollars (USD). Forbes claims the companies added to the list have" track records...
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited has entered into a binding commitment with Sanofi group (SNYNF, SNY) regarding the acquisition of a majority stake in Sanofi Bangladesh.  Beximco Director (marketing) Rizvi Ul Kabir confirmed the matter to The Business Standard today. The proposed deal...
Some 125 publicly-traded companies in the manufacturing and service sectors have expressed fears of heavy losses due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among them, 116 companies are in the manufacturing sector, such as RMG, cement, ceramics, engineering, and tannery sector. The other nine are in the real estate and service sector. These companies are...
With the growth of the country's pharmaceutical industry, it comes as no surprise that infusion saline is now manufactured locally as well. Since the inception of the industry, there has always been a scarcity of intravenous fluid in the market due to high demand but scarce supply...
Icddr,b has started a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anti-parasitic medicine ivermectin in combination with antibiotic doxycycline or ivermectin alone, according to a media release issued on Tuesday.  The study, which is funded by Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd...
The government has so far announced a set of stimulus packages worth around $11.90 billion (Taka 1.011 trillion to offset the COVID-19 shock on various sectors of the country and minimise the sufferings of the people hit hard by the nationwide shutdown enforced to fend off the...
Due to a decrease in Covid-19 infections in the country, oxygen demand has been relatively low in recent days. Oxygen cylinders and concentrators, on the other hand, are about the same price as before. According to hospital officials, both novel coronavirus infections and admissions...