Drug Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding an illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Profit-infected private vaccine cos demand 40% higher prices

SC HAS SENT NOTICE TO HEALTH MIN ON SUSPENSION OF DRUG PSUs Khomba Singh & Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI PRIVATE vaccine manufacturers have asked the government to hike the procurement price of vaccines claiming it is unviable to supply the medicines at the current prices. The government procures the entire …

Drug patent plan gets mixed reviews

GlaxoSmithKline's bid to tackle neglected diseases receives a muted response from the rest of the industry.

States to go after cos overpricing drugs

NPPA Refers 39 Long-Pending & Big Cases Of Overcharging To States As It Manages To Recover Only 10% Dues Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI DRUGMAKERS, such as Dr Reddy

Law in offing to tighten regulation of clinical trials

New Delhi: There are no laws at present to penalize and monitor pharma companies, which have messed up or violated norms while conducting global clinical trials for testing drugs in India to avoid instances like patients

The missing public

Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent …

Unethical promotional expense may push up drug prices: NPPA

MUMBAI: Unethical promotional expenditure in respect of marketing of drugs adopted by some players in the industry may push up drug prices to unreasonable levels, a top industry official said.

PMO orders testing of Patancheru water

28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition …

Discharge from wastewater plants could spawn drug resistance: Study

Patancheru (Medak, AP): Patancheru became a hub for largely unregulated chemical and drug factories in the 1980s, creating what is described locally as an

Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra

PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every …

Action against guilty for vaccine trial death: DCGI

NEW DELHI: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has found

Treatment of pharmaceutical effluent using upflow anaerobic filter

The principle of attached growth process has been incorporated in this research study for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater. An investigation has been made using laboratory scale model upflow anaerobic filter (UAF) using polyurethane foam as packing medium to evaluate its performance in treating pharmaceutical wastewater under the influence of …

Bulldozers on crop

Maharashtra acquires land by force NATHNAGAR village, about 20 km from Aurangabad, lost its crop before harvest. On December 3, officials of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation went there to take possession of about 50 hectares that has been earmarked for a pharmaceutical special economic zone being set up by …

Go suck a lemon

Vitamin C tablets scarce, costlier ALREADY in short supply, vitamin C has become costlier. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority increased the price of seven essential drugs on November 25. The authority controls the price of 74 drugs classified essential. The pharmaceutical industry had approached the pricing authority to revise the …

Roche to sell arthritis drug in India ahead of US, Europe approval

Pb Jayakumar & Joe C Mathew / Mumbai/new Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:27 IST Roche Scientific Company (India) Ltd, the local arm of Swiss drug maker F Hoffman-La Roche, will launch a new-generation rheumatoid arthritis drug, Actemra, in India, even as it awaits approvals from US and European drug regulators. …

HC orders review of Roche's drug patent

Joe C Mathew & P B Jayakumar / New Delhi/mumbai December 03, 2008, 0:48 IST First time, an Indian court revisits a patent office order. In a ruling that can have far-reaching implications on the way medicine patents are granted in the country, the Madras High Court today called for …

Scan combo drugs

commonly used medicines like Becosule, Dexorange and Corex figure in the list of medicines that the government wanted removed from the market last year. But these medicines, classified under fixed dose combinations, or fdcs, continue to be sold. The pharma industry is reviewing the list currently. Health activists fear that …

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