Hetero Drugs

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Hetero Drugs is an Indian Pharmaceutical Company which was recently awarded licence to make TamifluSwiss firm Roche has licensed Hetero Drugs an Indian company to make a generic version of its anti-flu treatment Tamiflu for India and other developing countries.The drug is widely seen as the most promising treatment for combating any future pandemic of bird flu in humans.The company says Hetero Drugs is among the first to demonstrate that it is technically capable of making a reliable generic version of Tamiflu.The decision could make it easier and cheaper for poorer nations to acquire stocks of the drug.