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 …
The secrecy that has long surrounded drug-industry trials is crumbling. Scientists are applauding drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for its announcement last week that it will make the trove of detailed raw data underlying its clinical trials systematically available to researchers. And GSK’s move — the first such commitment for a …
New Delhi The government has decided to stick to the new market-based formula for essential drugs. The formula was proposed by a group of ministers (GoM) headed by Sharad Pawar in the last week of September to fix prices of 348 drugs in the National List of Essential Medicines. The …
delves deep into the research carried out by the Science Nobel winners to understand what they did, why they are important & what the future implications of findings are Medicine WINNERS: John Gurdon & Shinya Yamanaka INSTITUTION: Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK & Kyoto University, Japan PRIZE-WINNING WORK: Adult cells can …
People have to go hungry for paying the medicine bill, says Judge The Union Government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would put in place by mid-November a Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) after the Union Cabinet’s approval. Last week, the Bench asked the Government to spell out …
Players with integration between clinical work and data are going to dominate the post-BPO scene Regulators round the world have become increasingly concerned about pharmacovigilance, the post-marketing surveillance of a drug for its entire life. Quintiles is offering this service to customers across the globe. About 500 of Quintiles’s staff …
The government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would firm up a drug policy by November 27, 2012, and then revise its essential drugs list under the Drug Price Control order to include 348 drugs. The existing essential drugs list has only 74 drugs. “The Cabinet will finalise …
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave one month’s time to the Centre to come up with the final version of the drug pricing policy. Maintaining that the Centre must follow a pricing formula that will prevent the prices of the drugs from shooting up, the SC agreed to wait till …
‘Poverty Line Fixed At 32, But Antibiotics Priced At About 60’ New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday promised to notify a new drug pricing mechanism for essential medicines by the end of November, but the Supreme Court said a change in policy must not force a sharp rise in drug …
Two Americans — Robert J Lefkowitz and Brian K Kobilka — shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the communication system that the human body uses to sense the outside world and send messages to cells. Lefkowitz, 68, is a professor at the Duke University Medical Center in …
Bench issues notice to all States also The Supreme Court on Monday expressed serious concern over clinical trial of drugs on human beings and issued notice to all States through their Chief Secretaries for their response. Hearing a petition filed by the Swasthya Adhikar Manch, highlighting the menace, a Bench …
In the past two years, clinical trials in India have come increasingly under public scrutiny. As a result, clinical research organisations (CROs), companies that conduct clinical trials for drug makers, are somewhat under pressure. However, leading CROs in the country, such as Quintiles, are riding on the hope that they …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to provide details of clinical trials conducted throughout the country since June 2005, their side effects, and deaths, if any, as well as the quantum of compensation paid to victims. “We are concerned with the lives of human beings who become subjects …
Expressing concern over the alleged use of humans as guinea pigs by pharmaceutical companies, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to submit details of clinical trials of drugs conducted across the country as well as their side effects and deaths, if any. A bench of Justices R.M. Lodha …
Why don't you sell it for Rs.5? Rs.1.2 lakh per month is too high." On September 11, Supreme Court Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai posed that question to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, fighting to patent its expensive cancer drug Glivec. The question wasn't just judicial speculation or indeed wit. …
Controversies and litigations threaten to derail a sector that once saw immense potential in India. Are you getting free medicines? Have you been asked to return the empty medicine bottles? If so, contact us…” Around 10,000 prints of these snappy queries have been ordered by Indore-based civil rights activist Amulya …
GoM had proposed a new pricing mechanism, but judges had said at an earlier hearing the current formula should stay The government is likely to formally tell the Supreme Court about the need to change the existing drug pricing mechanism. At the previous hearing on the issue last Wednesday, SC …
The CBI, probing vaccine scam, is set to seek clarification from certain private drug manufacturing companies of Chennai and Hyderabad. The agency may also call a former official of the staterun BCG Vaccine Lab (Chennai) for questioning also. According to sources two private vaccine manufacturers are under the scanner of …
Mumbai: The Supreme Court has suggested a cost-based mechanism for capping the prices of essential drugs. This is in direct contrast to the pharma policy — using the market-based mechanism — cleared by the Group of Ministers on September 27 for regulating prices of 348 essential drugs. The court, in …
A Supreme Court order on drug price control on Wednesday has caused confusion with some interpreting it to mean the retention of cost-based pricing which will help patients. The apex court on Wednesday asked the government not to alter the existing drug price structure, sparking speculation about the impact of …
Wants government to firm up a date by which essential drugs will be notified The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Union government that in the name of bringing essential drugs under pricing control it should not alter the price system. A Bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya …
