NEW DELHI - Grappling with increasing incidents of spurious drugs, the Indian health ministry has proposed an incentive scheme for "whistle blowers" who provide credible information and help the government in confiscating fake drugs, cosmetics or medical devices

Celgene will get exclusive use of Quanticel's single-cell genomic analysis to tweak its clinical pipeline, and it also has exclusive options to acquire the venture-backed start-up.

With an unrestricted label and once-daily dosing, rivaroxaban will do battle with Boehringer-Ingelheim's dabigatran, which is dosed twice a day but can claim superior efficacy to warfarin in the atrial fibrillation population.