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 …
Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its efforts often come into conflict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as …
Indian pharmaceutical companies will have to stop using plastic or PET containers in liquid oral formulations meant for paediatric formulations, geriatrics, women in reproductive age group and pregnant women. Viewing adverse effects on drug formulations packed in plastic bottles, the government has decided to ban use of plastic/PET containers in …
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that there is a need to strike balance between the interests of all the stakeholders with regard to the country’s regulatory policy on clinical trials, noting that innovation should be encouraged. Pharma firms have complained that India's new regulations for clinical …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Roche Products (India) Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. Vs. Drugs Controller General Of India And Ors. dated 05/02/2014 regarding launching, introducing, selling, marketing and/or distributing the defendants’ (Roche Products (India) Pvt. Ltd.) drugs, i.e. CANMAb and HERTRAZ or any other …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is making the clinical management of infections such as gonorrhoea increasingly difficult worldwide. In between the discovery of penicillin and the emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR-NG) and extensively drug resistant (XDR-NG) strains, gonorrhoea was considered unpleasant, but not particularly serious, because it was easily treated. Experts increasingly …
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has washed its hands of the clinical drug trials that took place on gas-victims at Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC). Some of the doctors allegedly involved in these trials have resigned from BMHRC in the past few weeks. According to ICMR director …
The new draft protocol for clinical trials of drugs, on the lines suggested by the Supreme Court, is making it difficult for global drug manufacturers to find subjects for testing new chemical compositions. The protocol has made it mandatory for companies intending to conduct human trials of drugs to video-record …
Biocon’s launch of the world’s first bio-similar of Trastuzumab, a critical breast cancer drug, is unlikely to benefit patients in a big way if the company sticks to the prices it has indicated, claimed health activists on Monday. They allege that Roche, which retails the drug at . 75,000 for …
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has released draft guidelines that make it mandatory for clinical research organisations to conduct an audiovisual recording of the trial patients informing them about each and every risk involved while undergoing the trial. The measure, introduced in addition to the existing written consent …
The Indian pharmaceutical company has been built from an industry that copies patent drugs and manufactures them inexpensively. Now it is counted amongst the industries that are fuelling India‘s economic growth and holds enormous potential. Indian-based pharmaceutical companies are also predicted to gain considerable market share in the world. It …
Antimicrobial resistance is a critical threat to public health. The value of antibiotics for human health is immeasurable, but were one to try to measure, a plausible estimate of the increase in life expectancy attributable to antibiotics might be 2 to 10 years. If we multiply this increase by 300 …
JAIPUR: Vultures, the birds of prey, in Jorbeer near Bikaner are alarmingly falling prey to Diclofenac despite the government ban on production of the drug for veterinary use in 2006. On last Thursday morning, a black-eyed kite, a migratory bird and a Steppe Eagle were found dead at Jorbeer carcass …
Letter from Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association regarding banning of PET bottles for medicines, 20/12/2013. The letter says that the "DTAB recommendations are unjust as they seem to be based on neither robust scientific facts nor on established global practices". Original Source: http://www.idma-assn.org/pdf/20-12-2013-letter-to-dghs-on-pet-bottles.pdf
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, present this Seventy-ninth Report of the Committee on the Drugs and Cosmetics(Amendment) Bill, 2013. In pursuance of Rule 270 of the Rules of procedure and Conduct of Business in the Council of States relating to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees, the Chairman, …
In good news for consumers, the Supreme Court has held that an order reducing prices of particular medicines will come into force with immediate effect after its publication in the gazette and firms should implement it within 15 days time and not sell unsold stocks at higher price. A bench …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Glaxo SmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/12/2013 on the question whether the prices fixed under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order in respect of drugs/formulations would be operative in respect of all sales subsequent to …
Efficacy and safety of a two-dose regimen of bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad, India) to 3 years is established, but long-term efficacy is not. We aimed to assess protective efficacy up to 5 years in a slum area of Kolkata, India.
Global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000, reducing malaria mortality rates by 45% globally and by 49% in Africa, according to the "World malaria report 2013". The large majority of the lives saved were in the 10 countries with the highest …
All clinical trials in India will henceforth have to take subject consent audiovisually and preserve the records. Acting on a directive of the Supreme Court, the drug controller has issued an order making audiovisual recording mandatory for all trials. While industry has raised objections, officials in the Health Ministry say …
Read minutes of an important meeting held on 25 Nov 2013, in which Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) recommended a phase-out and ban of the use of plastic / PET containers in liquid oral formulations for primary packaging of paediatric formulations as well as formulations meant for geriatrics, women in …
