Driven by respiratory drugs, the India Pharmaceutical Market (IPM) posted a double-digit growth of 12.1 percent for the month of February after underwhelming in December and January (8.8 percent and 7.7 percent), according to data by market research firm AIOCD-AWACS. Eight of the top 10 therapies registered a growth of more than 10 percent. The highest growth came from respiratory medicines (17.9 percent) followed by anti-infectives at 14.1 percent and cardiac by 13.3 percent. Supporting therapies that grew at double digit include gastric – 10.9 percent, pain – 11.8 percent and vitamins – 11.2 percent. In the respiratory segment, of the top 20 subgroups, 18 have registered double digit growth with an average growth of 16.8 percent. Anti-infective segment was the largest contributor for IPM at about 9.9 percent of total IPM sales. The IPM reported sales of Rs 12,628 crore for February. The IPM stood at Rs 1.4 lakh crore for the moving annual total (MAT) ended February, reporting a YoY growth of 9.7 percent.