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 …
Govt plans to fix and regulate prices of all 348 essential drugs & their combinations The new pharmaceutical pricing policy proposed by the chemicals and fertilisers ministry last week will create distortions in the market and hamper the industry’s growth, some drugmakers and regulatory experts have claimed. Under the National …
The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is because we allowed them to, by overusing drugs. Government has woken up from slumber and formulated a policy that targets antibiotic resistance. It restricts sale. But will …
Mumbai: There may be good newsfor consumerssoon.After yearsof dithering anddilly-dallying,the government proposes to bring all essential medicines under price control. The draft national pharmaceutical policy proposes to impose price control on the entire National List of EssentialMedicines—totalling 348 medicines. The essential list of medicines was revised recently by the government, …
New Delhi: The hero of India’s polio fight — the bivalent oral vaccine (BOPV)— is now being tested against the injectible one (IPV) to see which one boosts mucosal immunity (also known as gut immunity) the most and provides immunity to a child for the longest time. A first-of-its-kind study …
The Sri Lankan government plans to spend over Rs. 97 million to purchase rabies vaccines to combat the fatal viral disease transmitted through animals. The government Wednesday received the approval of the cabinet to procure 140,000 vials of rabies vaccine at a cost of US $ 868,000. The Sri Lankan …
A year after cholera broke out in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, the epidemic has disappeared from the headlines, but it continues to wreak a deadly toll. Mortality rates remain high in some areas, but donor funding for front-line response teams is drying up, even as a …
Campaign launched to bridge gap in coverage of immunisation programme Health Minister Adoor Prakash said here on Tuesday that an expert committee had been appointed to study the proposal for use of pentavalent vaccine under the immunisation programme of the Health Department. Replying to questions at a press conference, the …
Drug maker Lupin has received final approval from the US health regulator to market a generic version of UCB’s Keppra Oral Solution, an anti-epilepsy drug, in the American market. The company’s subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc, has received final approval for its Levetiracetam Oral Solution in the strength of 100mg/ml from …
Nearly five years after approving it for free use as a IVF drug, the Health Ministry Monday suspended the use of Letrozole with immediate effect, citing “likely risk”. Letrozole — a Aromatose Inhibitor drug that blocks the action of estrogen — is used to prevent recurrence of breast cancer. The …
An ongoing phase 3 study of the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 is being conducted in seven African countries.
New Delhi: India’s six lakh chemist shops can now stock and sell oseltamivir phosphate or Tamiflu — the only known drug effective against both the deadly influenza strains H1N1 and H5N1 bird flu. India has decided to lift “restricted sale” of the drug and make it available through all chemist …
Historic it may be—even if watered down. The unanimous adoption of a “political declaration” by the UN on the need to fight the rising tide of non-communicable diseases (NCD) is a singular development and, as analysts have been reminding us, it is only the second time a health issue has …
An ambitious, large-scale HIV/AIDS public health programme prevented an estimated 100,000 new infections in parts of the country hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic, indicating that HIV prevention programmes that target high-risk groups can reduce HIV rates in the broader population. This is revealed by a new analysis by the …
Taking a cue from the US, India has now put a cap on the prescription formulations of paracetamol combo drugs — it should not exceed 325 mg in each tablet or capsule. The move is “aimed” to prevent liver damage of a patient due to its overuse. Presently the drug …
Even as the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the world showed a decline for the first time globally, India continued to be reporting higher number of cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in its report. The newly-published data by the international health agency reported that for …
An HIV drug, declared unsafe and unfit for use by WHO in 2009, continues to be the first-line treatment drug for a majority of Indian HIV+ people on Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART). The Tamil Nadu government may pride itself on supplying free medication to thousands of HIV+ patients, but the …
New Delhi: First the good news — the number of people who fell ill with tuberculosis globally dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, after peaking at nine million in 2005. However, in India, the disease still wreaked havoc. It infected over 15 lakh people in 2010 and killed over three …
Has To Reply In 4 Weeks On Making Essential Medicines Affordable To Poor New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday wanted to know how serious the Centre was in bringing essential medicines, used by poor patients to fight ailments like tuberculosis, diarrhoea, heart diseases and malaria, under ambit of price …
