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 …
SHAMNAD BASHEER & PRASHANT REDDY IN A MOVE WITH SIGNIFICANT RAMIFICAtions for policy-making and participatory democracy, the ministry of commerce recently threw open the issue of compulsory licensing for public debate. The move is a welcome one, as the compulsory licensing (CL) of patents is not just an esoteric intellectual …
Almost two months after it rubbished the Lancet study on the antibiotic-resistant superbug NDM-1, a team of experts is all set to finalise guidelines on antibiotic use in government hospitals by this month. The task force includes experts from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), National Centre for …
Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI THE finance ministry has redflagged a move to impose curbs on foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical sector. The proposed curbs were prompted by fears of large-scale take-over of Indian companies by foreigners. In its response to a note by the department of industrial policy and …
GERMAN drugmaker Fresenius Kabi has started voluntary recall of two batches of a cancer drug shipped to the US made by its Indian subsidiary Fresenius Kabi Oncology Ltd after it found cross contamination. The drug sold as anastrozole tablets is used to treat breast cancer and is sold in the …
Out of the 9 species of vultures, more than 90 per cent of two species of vultures, the white-rumped and long-billed, have been wiped out. The main reason for such a decline in the population has been attributed to presence of diclofenac. The manufacture of diclofenac for cattle is now …
Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. The industry claims that promotion provides scientific and educational information to physicians. While some evidence indicates that promotion may adversely influence prescribing, physicians hold a wide range of views about pharmaceutical promotion. The objective of this …
On July 15, 1962, a Washington Post story, ‘Heroine of FDA keeps bad drug off market,’ shocked Americans. The heroine in question was Frances Oldham Kelsey. She had joined the US Food and Drug Administration two years earlier as a drug application investigator. With her expertise in pharmacology, she was …
India’s pharmaceuticals industry tends to be in the eye of the storm for one reason or the other. If it is not about its aggressive generics thrust globally, it is about high-profile patent infringement cases at home and abroad. The gamut of laws governing the sector, therefore, are keenly watched …
Universally, honey is believed to be a natural product. Regulations across the world say as much. The Codex Alimentarius Commission is a global body set up jointly by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop food standards for international trade; it defines …
Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. If even at a large dose, the antibiotic is not effective in treating an infection, then the microorganism that is responsible for the infection is declared resistant to that antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance is a global …
The journey of honey from bee farms to breakfast tables has become complex with time. From wild honey gatherers, honey supply has passed into the hands of cooperatives of individual beekeepers and then to big companies. The cooperatives could have helped beekeepers demand better prices, but they did not last …
The one kg jar of honey on Sangeeta Das’s kitchen shelf has many uses. Every morning she takes out a small quantity and puts it on the breakfast table. Her husband, Indranil, a media executive, likes a little bit of honey on his toast and the couple’s three-year-old son has …
They say you are what you eat. But do we know what we are eating? Do we know who is cooking and serving us the food we take to our kitchens and then into our bodies? The more I dig into this issue it becomes clear that our world of …
CSE has found a cocktail of mostly banned and severely prohibited antibiotics in honey CSE has found a cocktail of mostly banned and severely prohibited antibiotics in honey They say, you are what you eat. But do we know what we are eating? Do we know who is cooking and …
