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 …
To create awareness among cattle owners to avoid drugs that are toxic Even as the vulture (Gyps indicus) population is dwindling, Arulagam, an NGO, and Care Earth team have embarked on a mission to generate awareness among cattle owners to avoid drugs that prove to be toxic to vulture population …
Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of deaths due to serious adverse events (SAEs) during drug trials, while Madhya Pradesh saw the least number of such deaths. According to data disclosed by the Drug Controller-General of India, during the 49-month period (January 2008-January 2012), the country recorded 2,061 drug trial-related deaths. …
New Delhi: As many as 211 people died between January and June 2012 due to serious adverse events (SAE) during clinical trials. Investigations are now on to ascertain how many of the deaths were caused by drugs administered to the trial subjects. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on …
An expert team will be constituted to look into the allegations of unethical clinical trials being carried out in hospitals and private research centres in the State in violation of the norms sets by the Indian Council for Medical Research, the Health Minister, V. S. Sivakumar, has said. This was …
Nodal body for FDI policy DIPP to issue clarifications, paving the way for FIPB to take up pending proposals of Pfizer, B Braun & Sutures India The government is likely to clear next week foreign direct investment proposals worth over . 3,000 crore, by companies including Pfizer, B Braun and …
Scheme coming for free distribution of medicines through public hospitals and health centres The government will expand the scope of the NRHM to all towns and cities, by converting it into a National Health Mission (NHM), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Wednesday. In his Independence Day speech from the …
An inter-ministerial group tasked with regulating prices of patented medicines has recommended using a per capita income-linked reference pricing mechanism, a proposal that may reduce prices of several patented dugs by up to onethird but will hit the profitability of foreign companies. The committee, headed by an official from the …
Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday inaugurated the free generic veterinary medicines scheme, following which 87 veterinary drugs and 13 surgical consumables would be provided free of cost at the state hospitals from Wednesday onwards. Speaking at the state-level function here, which was attended by hundreds of farmers and …
A team of city researchers have claimed that there are over 1,000 species of fungi and more than 60 different types of lichens in and around the Sinhagad forest area. Many of these fungi species have medicinal properties, edible value and have an ecological role to play. The team comprising …
Upadhye et al. have discussed an interesting aspect of Ayurvedic medicines. They have considered ‘involuntary adulteration’ in the preparation of Ayurvedic medicines due to the use of plant species which have the same or similar names, but are essentially different constituently. (Correspondence)
New Delhi A formula to determine the financial compensation that victims of clinical trials would be entitled to has been proposed by the health ministry. In case of death resulting from clinicals trials, the deceased’s age, income, seriousness and severity of the disease he was suffering from at the time …
Aaron Kesselheim and colleagues investigate conflict of interest disclosures in articles authored by physicians and scientists identified in whistleblower complaints alleging illegal off-label marketing by pharmaceutical companies. Original Source
If the results of a field trial started by the Health Ministry are favourable, doctors will no longer need to wait for months before starting a patient on a regimen for drug-resistant TB, thus losing valuable time in a critical case. The ministry has initiated field trials for a nucleic …
Despite the bad press that traditional Chinese medicine sometimes receives, proponents believe it represents an untapped pharmacopeia and are using cutting edge biotechnology to prove it. Gary Humphreys reports.
Reports of trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in the water cycle have raised concerns over potential human health risks from exposure to very low levels of pharmaceuticals in drinking-water. This technical report aims to provide practical guidance and recommendations in managing concerns over pharmaceuticals in drinking-water, taking into consideration the available …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
Companies say they follow global standards in India as well Drug majors such as Novartis, Pfizer, Bayer Healthcare, Bristol Mayer Squibb, Sun Pharmaceutical and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories were allegedly involved in clinical trials in which 438 persons died in 2011, according to confidential government data reviewed by Business Standard. While …
The recently-announced "free drugs for all" initiative by the Centre could lead to the long-pending national pharmaceutical policy getting cleared. In 2002, the Supreme Court had struck down the policy saying it did not specify how essential medicines would be made affordable and available to the masses. To start with, …
