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 …

Govt norms soon for biologics trials

THE government will frame separate guidelines for developing gene-based therapies and inventing drugs and vaccines from natural sources such as human, animal or micro-organism. The move will distinguish approval process for undertaking pre-clinical experiments for biologics from chemicalbased drugs, an official in department of biotechnology (DBT) said. Biologics are medicines …

Vitamin C scarcity in India reasons and impact

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is used in the treatment of common cold, allergies and respiratory disorders. It is also helpful in healing wounds. It has antioxidant activity and prevents the cell membrane of vital organs from getting damaged due to oxidation. Though vitamin C is a small-product category with annual …

US drug industry advocates join chorus to split FDA

Washington: As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. Drug industry advocates are quietly allying with some of their longtime critics pushing to split the Food and …

A Better Deal on Malaria

For the past nine years, the drug company Novartis has been selling Coartem, one of the most effective antimalarials on the market, to public-health officials in the developing world at a loss totaling more than $253 million

Australia approves Ranbaxy drug

New Delhi: Ranbaxy announced on Friday that it has received approval from Australia

New regulatory regime for drug cos on cards

Gireesh Chandra Prasad NEW DELHI THE government is putting the finishing touches on a new regulatory regime for the country

Bill to let FDA check drug plants

BY LALIT K. JHA WASHINGTON Leading US Senators announced on Wednesday that they are introducing a legislation in the Senate which would make mandatory US inspection of drug manufacturing plants anywhere in the world that supply medicines to them. Since, India and China account for major quantum of medicine supplied …

Ranbaxy uses US arm to stay in the race

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi March 06, 2009, 0:37 IST Ranbaxy, facing data falsification charges from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) at one of its Indian facilities, has relied upon the drug making capabilities of its US subsidiary, Ohm Laboratories, to replenish its US product basket. …

Drugs taxing pockets: Report

The Independent Commission on Development and Health in India has released a report that reveals an average Indian directs 75 per cent of his total healthcare expenditure just to meet the cost of therapeutic drugs. All thanks to continued overcharging by pharmaceutical firms, poor public spending in the private sector …

Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2009

These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Second Amendment Rules, 2009. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

Chromium (III) removal from aqueous solution by microbial waste from fermentation industry

Removal of chromium (III) from aqueous solution by microbial waste biomass (MB1) obtained as a byproduct of pharmaceutical fermentation industry was studied. In order to understand the sorption kinetic behaviour of chromium (III), a series of batch mode experiments were conducted at different pH values, adsorbent dosage and initial chromium …

Access to medicines back on centre stage at the WTO

Sparked by the confiscation of a generic drugs shipment in Amsterdam in December, and similar incidents that have come to light since, poor countries

Changes will mean affordable drugs for all

The patent system that has served drug companies so well may at last be changing to also help those who need drugs most.

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