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 …
Pharma companies oppose vociferously 45 days' time period given to them for replacing existing stocks Taking their cue from Cipla and Alembic, many in the pharmaceutical industry have challenged the new drug price fixation orders that were to be implemented from July 29. The move is expected to delay the …
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Government and others on two separate petitions by a pharmaceutical company and an association of medicine manufacturing companies challenging the new drug pricing policy. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru also …
‘Nutrition has been identified as one of the factors impacting treatment outcomes’. Health activists have suggested linking the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) with the food security programme to be launched shortly for better treatment outcomes. Good nutrition has a broader positive impact on health and the RNTCP should …
Mumbai: The watershed drug pricing policy that was to have kicked off on July 29 after a decade of intense debate and planning, is now threatened by a variety of reasons including court cases and bureaucratic lethargy. Confusion in the pharma industry persists along with a fear of shortage of …
Chemists Say They Are Yet To Get Drugs With Revised Pricing From Monday the most essential drugs will go cheaper by10 to 50% as the revised prices fixed by the national pharmaceutical pricing authority comes into force. In the first phase the prices of 151 formulations will come down and …
Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration has cracked down on what is widely considered alternative or natural treatment for diabetes, including ayurvedic and homeopathic remedies. Fifteen companies in the US, including some that procure alternative diabetes medication from India, have been served warning letters by the FDA, asking them …
Aizawl: After enacting the dry law in Mizoram 17 years ago, the state government is now mulling formulating a new drug policy to combat worsening drug abuse deaths even as social workers accuse the government of dragging its feet over putting the legislation in place. The existing drug laws in …
‘The tablet given under the WIFS programme is safe and efficacious’. The Centre on Monday claimed that adverse effects reported by children after consuming iron folic tablets under the Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme were ‘expected’ and, rather ‘less than expected’. However, “it is safe and efficacious,” it …
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Mumbai: Non-government organisations (NGOs) led by AIDAN (All India Drug Action Network) have filed a fresh application in the Supreme Court as part of their decade-long petition that had forced the government to bring all 348 essential drugs under price control. AIDAN, LOCOST, Medico Friend Circle and Jan Swasthya Sahyog …
For more than 2.2 million tuberculosis (TB) patients in India — the highest figure in the world — chances of recovery are dwindling. The disease claims an Indian every two minutes. In the coming months, the numbers are only likely to go up. The government has failed to procure certain …
Asks Pharma Cos To Prove Safety & Efficacy Of Fixed Dose Combinations By August 30 The government has finally got cracking on regulating harmful and irrational combination medicines in the market, directing pharma manufacturers to prove their safety and efficacy claims. This comes close on the heels of a recent …
Supreme Court judgement on fixing the prices of "Doxofylline formulations" dated 04/07/2013 in the matter of Union Of India And Another Vs M/S. Swiss Garnier Life Sciences & Ors.
Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025. But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will …
On May 4, 2013, the ministry of health of VietNam suspended Quinvaxem, the pentavalent combination used in that country, after it had caused 12 deaths and nine non-fatal serious adverse events (3). On investigating the reactions caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the nine non-fatal …
Salient recommendations of Prof. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury Expert Committee to formulate policy and guidelines for approval of new drugs, clinical trials and banning of drugs are that clinical trials can only be carried out at centres which have been accredited for such purpose. The principal investigator of the trial should …
The recent changes in the regulatory framework for conducting clinical trials were aimed at ensuring safety and efficacy of drugs on humans, Deputy Drugs Controller of India S.E.Reddy said here on Friday. Speaking at a pharma conference organised by ASSOCHAM here, he said the rules were amended because the ethics …
The health ministry has suspended the sale of two drugs — painkiller Analgin and anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone and all its combinations. While the ban on Analgin in India has come after almost 36 years after the drug was banned in the US (which banned it in 1977), Pioglitazone was pulled …
Mumbai: The government has banned three popular medicines — the widely prescribed anti-diabetes drug pioglitazone, painkiller analgin and anti-depressant deanxit — given the health risks associated with them. While pioglitazone is feared to cause heart failure and increase the risk of bladder cancer, analgin has been discarded globally over patient …
Mumbai: The Centre should strengthen the tuberculosis-control programme if it wants to stop thousands of avoidable deaths in the city, a petition signed by over hundred experts here stated. Addressed to Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, the petition asked the Centre to recognize …
