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 …
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to develop and sell vaccines for pneumonia, diarrhea. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund two Indian firms
JAIPUR: The co-operative department will open 58 more Jan Aushadi Vikri Kendra in the state. Principal secretary, co-operatives Tapesh Pawar said the government's priority is to provide low cost and effective medicines to the public. These stores are one of the ways to promote generic medicines, he said. Pawar said …
The court has asked Wockhardt to deposit . 115 crore by May 3 as a sign of its solvency Wockhardt won temporary reprieve in the Bombay High Court as a division bench conditionally stayed its winding-up until May 3. The bench required Wockhardt to deposit . 115 crore by this …
A high-level team probing the recent deaths of infants in Gujarat says the children may have died because of wrong handling of measles vaccines. In their preliminary report, experts from the Union Health Ministry and the National Centre for Disease Control have pointed to an
RAMPANT ILLEGAL harvesting and trade in a wild plant endemic to the Western Ghats called narakya (Mappia foetida), which has anti-cancer properties, has made it an endangered species. The tree is being exploited clandestinely in the domestic market and also shipped abroad. The profit potential is enormous, as the alkaloid …
CHILDREN and adolescents injected with a swine flu vaccine could be at an increased risk of a sleeping disorder, warned a study. Made by multinational pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline, Pandemrix vaccine was used in 47 countries, including India, during the swine flu outbreak in 2009-10. Finland’s National Institute for Health and …
New Delhi: Talk to a drug industry executive about high medicine prices and they throw back the $1.3 billion the industry spends on average on research and development (R&D;) of a single drug. In a recent analysis bound to deflate this justification for high pricing, two health economists have demonstrated …
Chandigarh To involve private sector in healthcare, the Uttaranchal government has struck a public-private partnership deal. Under the deal, Chandiarh-based Rahi Care has been entrusted upon to set up a state-of-the-art nephrology (dialysis) centre at Base Hospital, Haldwani. Government sources said that
New Delhi In what would come as a shot in the arm for rural healthcare, the government is planning to form a chain of over 8,000 drug retail outlets spread across the length and breadth of the country to take affordable medicine to the hinterlands. The plan is to set …
New Delhi: A thrice-a-week insulin shot instead of the once-a-day shot at present could soon be a reality. Doctors from India, Canada, US and South Africa have jointly tested the most promising new form of long acting insulin, Degludec, needed once every 48 hours, and found it to be as …
Multinational pharmaceutical drug company MSD, the fully owned subsidiary of Merck & Co, on Wednesday launched a diarrhoea-prevention vaccine RotaTeq for infants and children in India. RotaTeq is a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine that helps in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis, a leading cause of severe and life threatening diarrhoea in young children. …
At the end of November, Pfizer stands to lose a $10-billion-a-year revenue stream when the patent on its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor expires and cheaper generics begin to cut into the company
First-in-human clinical trials represent a critical juncture in the translation of laboratory discoveries. However, because they involve the greatest degree of uncertainty at any point in the drug development process, their initiation is beset by a series of nettlesome ethical questions: has clinical promise been sufficiently demonstrated in animals? Should …
Global drugmakers have started launching generic or low-priced version of popular medicines and have slashed prices of their existing products to increase market share in India, taking on local competitors in their own game. French drugmaker Sanofi Aventis has launched a range of generic drugs, some at half the price …
Mumbai: You will have to pay more for that flu shot, or to ease pain during surgery. Prices of vaccines, anaesthetics and intravenous fluids (IV fluids) are expected to rise with the imposition of an excise levy. Not just that. Ayurvedic, unani, siddha and homeopathic drugs will also cost more …
The information in patent documents and applications can play an important role in improving access to medicines, said experts at a symposium on “Access to Medicines, Patent Information and Freedom to Operate” in Geneva last month.
Industrial food animal production employs many of the same antibiotics or classes of antibiotics that are used in human medicine. These drugs can be administered to food animals in the form of free-choice medicated feeds (FCMF), where animals choose how much feed to consume. Routine administration of these drugs to …
Antibiotic resistance is a stark reality across the globe, including in India. The challenges associated with controlling antibiotic resistance, particularly in India, are many and multifaceted. On one hand, antibiotics are necessary in many life-threatening cases. On the other hand, overuse of antibiotics can be disastrous in the long run. …
