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The company has also been given the US Food and Drug Administration's approval as 'emergency use authorisation' for the test.

Poor compliance with drug regimens is a common problem in many disease areas, especially when patients suffer from chronic conditions.

Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Wednesday said the US health regulator has accepted biologics licence application (BLA) for tildrakizumab for the treatment of psoriasis.

Previously known as the Deka Arm, the Luke arm - developed by Segway creator Dean Kamen and DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) - integrates the latest technology in electronics, motors, batteries, and materials.  

DRL shares on Monday stumbled by 3.44 percent over previous close to Rs 3,504.60 on BSE.

Pharmaceutical firm Unichem Laboratories has received US FDA approval for the Losartan Potassium tablets used in treatment of hypertension.

IPCA Laboratories Ltd is aiming to make all of its plants facing import alerts from the United States compliant with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules by December, an executive said on Wednesday.

Shares in generic drugmaker IPCA Laboratories slumped as much 12.7 percent, heading towards their biggest daily fall since July 2014, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an import alert against two of its plants.

"The recent inspection at the Aurangabad L1-Chikalthana site was a follow-up inspection by the US FDA as an outcome of completion of good manufacturing practise (GMP) remediation submitted by Wockhardt in October 2014.

The FDA inspected the Moraiya plant, based in Gujarat, in the second week of July.