http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reported a 6.7 percent increase in profit for the first quarter Wednesday, boosted by new products and emerging markets. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-novartis-profit-gain-drugs.html Medications Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:07:38 EST news286009650 The India Supreme Court's rejection of a patent for an improved version of a costly cancer drug by Novartis AG could have big implications for the world's largest drugmakers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-india-drug-patent-reverberate.html Medications Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:11:06 EST news284062257 India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-drug-maker-india-patent.html Medications Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:28:55 EST news284009309 India's Supreme Court is to rule Monday on a landmark patent case involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG that focuses on demands by major companies that their investments be protected, against Indian companies that say they should be allowed to continue producing cheaper generic versions of many lifesaving medicines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-india-court-novartis-judgment.html Medications Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:20:01 EST news283939647 (AP)—Swiss drug maker Novartis AG reported a jump in fourth-quarter net profit to $2.08 billion on Wednesday, citing the lack of a $900-million one-time charge it took in the same period the previous year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-novartis-q4-net-profit-rebounds.html Other Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:52:12 EST news278135436 (AP)—From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging in the balance ahead of a legal ruling that will determine whether India's drug companies can continue to provide cheap versions of many life-saving medicines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-indian-court-drug-industry.html Medications Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:57:22 EST news276497833 Europe's top drug regulator has recommended approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, made by Novartis AG. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-eu-drug-oks-novartis-meningitis.html Medications Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:54:14 EST news272278445 Novartis AG and Incyte Corp. said Tuesday that European Union regulators approved their blood cancer drug Jakavi. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eu-novartis-incyte-blood-cancer-drug.html Medications Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:10:37 EST news265965018 A multiple sclerosis drug made by industry giant Novartis is under investigation after at least 11 patients taking the medicine died. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-novartis-drug-deaths.html Medications Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:29:55 EST news246288586 (AP) -- Doctors were mostly hoping to prevent complications and relapses when they gave young women a medicine to keep their bones strong during breast cancer treatment. Seven years later, they found it did more than that: The bone drug improved survival, as much as many chemotherapies do. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-bone-drug-boosts-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:10:01 EST news242621950 (AP) -- Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-big-breast-cancer-drugs.html Cancer Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:30:02 EST news242540493 (AP) -- In a case that could affect India's role as drug provider to the developing world, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the government had the right to deny a patent to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for its lifesaving cancer treatment Gleevec. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-novartis-patent-indian-court.html Medications Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:22:55 EST news234523359