Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
In 2012, an Indian parliamentary committee reported that manufacturing licenses for large numbers of fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs had been issued by state authorities without prior approval of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) in violation of rules, and considered that some ambiguity until 1 May 2002 about …
Prices of branded drugs available in India should be brought down closer to the prices of their generic alternatives, requests a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) addressed to the union health ministry. The letter, sent in the second week of April, also requests the ministry to assess the …
The family Filoviridae contains three genera, Ebolavirus (EBOV), Marburg virus, and Cuevavirus. Some members of the EBOV genus, including Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV), can cause lethal haemorrhagic fever in humans. During 2014 an unprecedented ZEBOV outbreak occurred in West Africa and is still ongoing, resulting in over 10,000 deaths, and causing …
Over a 2-year period, from 2013 to 2014, WHO undertook an initial “country situation analysis” in order to determine the extent to which effective practices and structures to address antimicrobial resistance have been put in place and where gaps remain. A survey was conducted in countries in all six WHO …
The world's first malaria vaccine has cleared the final test, but the results haven't been emphatic. The final trial results demonstrated that vaccination with RTS,S, followed by a booster dose administered 18 months after the primary schedule, reduced the number of cases of clinical malaria in children (aged 5-17 months …
Prices of drugs for various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis & cancer to go up by 3.84% The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84% with effect from April 1. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing …
SURAT: At least 42 industrial units manufacturing paper, drugs and pesticides, dyes and chemicals, etc. located in Vapi GIDC have been ordered to close down for two months by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for alleged non-conformance of certain environment norms and failing to install environment management system (EMS). "The …
The Science & Technology Department of Gujarat Government has initiated an exercise to frame integrated policy for Nano Technology policy in lines with the Information Technology and Electronics Policy. In the late 1990s, Gujarat Government missed the bus to attract investments in IT sector. The present State Government seems to …
Judgement of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Merck Sharp And Dohme Corporation and Others Vs Glenmark Pharmaceuticals dated 20/03/2015 regarding patent violation of Merck Sharp & Dohme diabetes drugs by Glenmark.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Dr. A. Kishan Rao & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 09/03/2015 regarding pollution caused by pharmaceutical industries in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
This study seeks to assess the relative impact of patent status as a component of pharmaceutical prices while controlling other market and medicine characteristics on the retail prices of oncology medicines in Thailand. Ordinary Least-Squares (OLS) regression model of log prices as a function of supply and demand factors was …
This third WHO report on neglected tropical diseases urges affected countries to scale up their investment in tackling 17 neglected tropical diseases in order to improve the health and well-being of more than 1.5 billion people.
In many European countries, medicines promotion is governed by voluntary codes of practice administered by the pharmaceutical industry under its own system of self-regulation. Involvement of industry organizations in policing promotion has been proposed to deter illicit conduct, but few detailed studies on self-regulation have been carried out to date. …
Rapid industrialization is adversely impacting the environment globally. Pollution by inappropriate management of industrial wastewater is one of the major environmental problems in India as well, especially with burgeoning small scale industrial sector in the country. To address the pollution coming out from industries, adoption of cleaner production technologies and …
In a view of various reports doubting the quality of drugs manufactured in India and sold in the domestic and export market, the Union Health Ministry has launched the largest ever sample survey of spurious, counterfeit and sub-standard medicines to analyse their quality. The move also aims to plug loopholes …
Leading US health groups including AVAC, Oxfam America, amfAR, Health Global Access Project (GAP), TAG (Treatment Action Group)and others have written to Barack Obama urging him to support India in providing “high-quality, low-cost generic medicines essential for health care around the world“. This comes in the wake of the two …
3 types of drugs to be tested Amid concerns around the quality of medicines being manufactured in India for domestic use and export, the government has embarked on the largest ever survey of spurious and substandard drug formulations to assess the exact scale of the problem. Health Ministry through the …
The Narcotics Control Bureau has unearthed five rings allegedly diverting pseudoephedrine from pharmaceutical manufacturing units in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for making party drugs. In one such case, the son of a retired high-ranking Customs officer has been arrested. Pseudoephedrine is a precursor chemical used in manufacture of cough and …
Aspirin is one of world’s most popped pills, the answer to maladies ranging from simple aches and pains or even a mild fever. However, this drug may soon be prescribed for a far more severe condition if initial observational studies are validated. Cancer Research UK is funding a 12-year global …
Court favours Novartis, but allows Cipla to sell the remaining stock The high court had issued an injunction order in favour of global drug-giant Novartis, asking Cipla to stop selling the cheaper version of respiratory drug Onbrez. However, Cipla can sell the remaining stock, the court has ruled. Cipla, in …
