Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
Malvinder Went To Seek Ally For R&D; Unit, Ended Up Selling Co IT BEGAN with the Ranbaxy management looking for an investor for its R&D; unit and ended up with them finding a buyer for the parent company. And ironically, while Ranbaxy has been sold, the new owners have decided …
Public interest groups and health advocacy firms have raised doubts over the validity of several medicine patents that have been granted by Indian patent offices in recent times. The medicines include tuberculosis (TB) drug moxifloxacin, antipsychotic olanzapine and valgancicloivir, a medicine often needed for HIV / AIDS patients. The groups …
Signs a collaboration agreement with Safety Syringes of the U.S. safety first: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon, launching the drug delivery system in Bangalore on Wednesday. Biocon launched pre-filled syringes for delivering two life-saving drugs manufactured by it. The company has entered into a collaboration agreement with …
Even as two multinationals and an Indian pharma company fight over a generic drug to treat stomach acid, a third giant has been pulled into legal battle. Pharma biggie Wyeth had filed a patent suit against Teva Pharmaceuticals and Mumbai-based Sun Pharma for its generic drug, Protonix. Wyeth is now …
R. PRASAD The presence of drug resistant strains may be found even in HIV infected people who have never been on antiretroviral drugs Drug resistance may arise even when there is good compliance as the virus keeps mutating Of the 60 patients tested so far in a hospital in Chennai, …
Says goodbye to burning of seized drugs in the open Vishal Joshi The Haryana police is all set to become a "green force'. Following directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the police has finally said goodbye to the highly objectionable practice of uncontrolled burning of seized narcotic drugs. …
ARCHANA MOHAN & RITU KHATRI Even as Gujarat aims to be called the 'biotech hub' of the country, high attrition rates among employees and smaller pool of qualified professionals in the state have led a group of clinical research professionals to collaborate with the Gujarat State Biotech Mission (GS-BTM) in …
The cancer drug Erbitux prolonged the lives of patients with advanced lung cancer by five weeks, according to a new clinical study described as an important gain for such individuals. "Patients with advanced NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) have limited treatment options and life expectancy is short, so the survival …
A drug manufacturer and distributor has filed an application by way of a public interest litigation seeking a direction from the Supreme Court the Bribery Commission to initiate an investigation against Director General of Health Services for promoting substandard drugs and allegedly accumulating wealth. The petitioner Arushan Raninkumar of Hillside …
The aim of this work was to develop an analytical method for simultaneous assay of residues of two families of antibiotics, and three pesticides, in honey. The assays involved a mixture of five tetracyclines, four sulfamides, and the pesticides coumaphos, carbendazim, and amitraz (two metabolites). All the compounds were extracted …
An effective vaccine against cholera has been used for public health purposes in Vietnam since the 1990s. This vaccine was reformulated to meet WHO requirements. The researchers assessed the safety and immunogenicity of the reformulated bivalent (Vibrio cholerae 01 and 0139) killed whole cell oral vaccine in a cholera endemic …
The decision taken recently by the editors of 11 Indian biomedical journals to publish only the results of human clinical trials that have been registered is laudable, considering that India has become one of the most favoured countries for conducting such trials and that more and more papers are published …
The next time you buy any medicine check out for the 3d hologram symbol as most of the pharmaceuticals companies have come up with the authentic logo for the drive against fake drugs. While the health ministry in India estimates that only five per cent of the drugs sold in …
PUBLIC sector drug makers are set to regain a substantial share in the retail pharmaceutical market. These companies, which recently received fresh capital infusion from the government, are going in for a major expansion of their production capacity and product baskets. These pharmaceutical companies already have an assured market from …
Ask Govt To Immediately Increase Price Of 33 Bulk Drugs As Imported Drug Price Hike, Rupee Fall Take Toll OVER 650 drugmakers have asked the government to immediately increase the prices of 33 bulk drugs, failing which companies will have to stop manufacturing several medicines within a month or two. …
GVK Bio has entered into a research agreement with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, to undertake drug discovery research and generate intellectual property (IP). Based on the research output, the company would file INDs (Investigative New Drug) with the US Food & Drug Administration. The work would be largely …
Public Money: Health groups fear the new bill will facilitate private property with public funds (Pic By Subhabrata Das) In the coming weeks, groups working in the area of public health are expected to voice their concerns on a proposed US-style Indian law being piloted by India's Ministry of Science …
Bitter-Sweet: According to World Health Organization figures, more than 32 million Indians suffer from diabetes (Pic By Subhabrata Das) If you feel Indians have a tendency to acquire that extra bit of flab around the waist, you're not alone. Now a scientific study has confirmed it, and here goes the …
Health Canada, a drug and health regulatory body, has once again said some Ayurvedic products may contain high levels of heavy metals, such as lead, mercury and arsenic. Saying these medicines may pose serious health risks, the Canadian regulator has asked people to exercise caution while purchasing them. The move …
Domestic drug majors and public health activists have accused research-based multinational drug companies of not providing clear information about the type or use of the potential new medicines in patent applications. The practice of using complex chemicals, or molecular formulae, in place of clear indicators as patent titles is an …
