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 …
THE government plans to track each medicine exported out of the country using new technologies to prevent drugs from being duplicated and protect local exporters from allegations of supplying counterfeit drugs. The commerce ministry has asked Pharmexcil, a body of Indian drug exporters set up by the commerce & industry …
Indian Company To Become Pure Generics Drugmaker; To Retain Research Activity For Anti-Malarial Drug RANBAXY Laboratories has transferred its research division for new drugs to Japan
An empirical study of the impact of patenting and licensing on regional manufacturing of human papilloma virus vaccines to help improve vaccine affordability and access.
The story of how pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) in the recent swine flu scare and the saga of the undeclared conflicts of interests of members of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts has set off alarm bells around the world. …
Donald G. Mcneil Jr GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Novartis have taken the top three spots again on the Access to Medicine Index, which ranks pharmaceutical companies on how readily they make their products available to the world's poor. It was the second time the rankings, which were created in 2008, have …
A NEW technology that helps consumers and retailers identify food and medicine contamination early in the supply chain could soon grace your neighbourhood retailer. The Indian arm of the Brussels-based firm GS1
In 2009, WHO brought together 24 experts to assess schemes and innovative proposals that could encourage much-needed research and development into drugs for neglected diseases. The final report by the Expert Working Group (EWG) was due to be rubber-stamped at the 63rd World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from …
Tuberculosis may no longer be perceived as the mass killer disease, yet even today a patient dies of it in India every minute. Thus a new breakthrough in TB control is heartening news. That the innovative research is the brainchild of the nation
GLENMARK Pharmaceuticals has scored in its patent tussle with Sanofi Aventis and Abbott after a New Jersey district court upheld the challenge by the Indian company for a hyper-tension drug. Glenmark was the first to file the challenge for the drug combination that contains a slow release and an immediate …
Facilities involved in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products are an under-investigated source of pharmaceuticals to the environment. Between 2004 and 2009, 35 to 38 effluent samples were collected from each of three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in New York and analyzed for seven pharmaceuticals including opioids and muscle relaxants. Two …
a symposium organized in Delhi recently by the George Washington University in the US is the latest in the series of events to promote patent interests of pharma companies. One of the main sponsors of the event, US pharma company Gilead Sciences, made a presentation at the symposium on its …
Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a disease that is responsible for 880,000 deaths per year worldwide. Vaccine development has proved difficult and resistance has emerged for most antimalarial drugs. To discover new antimalarial chemotypes, we have used a phenotypic forward chemical genetic approach to assay 309,474 chemicals. Here we …
There are still nearly 250 million malaria cases reported annually, over 800,000 fatal, with most deaths being children under 5. The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is notoriously adept at developing drug resistance, and new drugs are urgently needed. Two reports raise hopes that alternatives to artemisinins might be found, by …
