Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Effluent treatment norms for pharmaceutical companies, 09/12/2019. The environmental standards for Pharmaceutical Industry were last issued in 2009. There are increasing concerns on water pollution and thus a need for improving upon the quality of effluents. An Expert Committee, constituted by Central Pollution Control …
The vaccine was designed at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Till date, Cholera has been responsible for seven pandemics and accounts for nearly Hyderabad: Global research and development organization Hilleman Laboratories on Wednesday announced that it will further develop and manufacture its next-generation oral Cholera vaccine Hillchol in collaboration …
The Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI), which implements the Centre’s flagship affordable medicine scheme PMBJP, has found 25 batches of drugs of 18 pharmaceutical companies to be of substandard quality since January 2018, according to an official document. While 17 out of the 18 companies are private, one …
More than 200 companies represent the global pharmaceutical market, yet only 25 consistently reported their direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions in the past five years Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage. Yet our recent study found the global …
An Expert Explains: In biggest bout, knockout This time, BIMSTEC leaders are invited to Modi’s swearing-in Community pharmacists can help in detecting undiagnosed cases of tuberculosis (TB), as they are the first point of contact for many sick patients, a new study in Patna has found. The study found that …
25 times increase was seen in TB diagnosis when pharmacies referred symptomatic TB patients for X-ray followed by doctor consultation By slightly changing the way private pharmacies help people with symptomatic TB to get diagnosed early and start treatment, McGill University researchers have been able to achieve 62 times higher …
A Ghana-based start-up has received $1.5 million from Ebay billionaire Jeff Skoll to support its work in changing Africa's pharmaceutical industry to make medicines more affordable. MPharma is one of five social businesses to receive awards from the Skoll Foundation at this week's Skoll World Forum, Britain's leading event for …
Local industry associations will sign Memorandum of Understand (MoU) for business expansion, environment protection, sharing of technical know-how, and facilitation of bilateral ties during the three-day Vibrant Gujarat Summit beginning January 18. Pharmaceuticals sector is likely to lead the table with business proposals worth Rs 8,000 crore. Environment preservation and …
Ahmedabad: With the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019 set to kick-off this week, several investment intentions have been received by the state government in the environment, conventional and pharmaceutical sectors. Investments worth some Rs 40,000 crore has been proposed in these three sectors. As many as 302 investment intentions, with …
NEW DELHI: The health ministry was actively mulling compulsory licensing, apart from price capping, of “orphan drugs” (for rare diseases), when the department of pharmaceuticals abruptly issued an order exempting such medicines from price control, derailing plans to make these drugs affordable. The health ministry discussed price capping and invoking …
Many of the world's top drugmakers are not doing enough to provide medicines to poor countries, leaving big gaps in access to treatments in crucial disease areas, including cancer, according to a new report on Tuesday. The non-profit Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF) found companies overall were doing more than …
The Access to Medicine Index finds that a handful of pharmaceutical companies are developing the bulk of urgently needed new medicines for the poor. The development of new medical products that are considered the highest priority for people in developing countries is highly concentrated - among five pharmaceutical companies and …
From September 1, only Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals, a public sector entity, would be permitted to manufacture and distribute Oxytocin. A health ministry advisory body has suggested that the Central government should not ban the sale of Oxytocin through retail chemists — which is proposed to come into force from …
Chinese authorities have ordered a company in the northeastern province of Jilin to halt production of a vaccine after it was recalled last week, amid an ongoing probe into fraudulent business practices, official media reported. China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) ordered Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences to halt production on …
Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries today said it has received approval from the US health regulator for its INFUGEM injection used for treatment of cancer. This is the first US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approval for a product from the company's Halol facility after receipt of Establishment Inspection Report …
HYDERABAD: The Telangana government has failed to implement National Green Tribunal (NGT) order to undertake a scientific study on effects of pollution on residents in and around Hyderabad pharma cluster, which produces 40% of world’s bulk drugs. Though a petition against these polluting industries was filed in the Supreme Court …
About 55 million Indians were pushed into poverty in a single year because of having to fund their own healthcare and 38 million of them fell below the poverty line due to spending on medicines alone, a study by three experts from the Public Health Foundation of India has estimated. …
Antibiotic supply chains are on the brink of collapse, cautions The Netherlands-based Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF), as the world grapples with the peculiar problem of ‘excess and access’ when it comes to these drugs. “Between 2001 and 2013, 148 national antibiotic shortages occurred in the United States alone. In …
NGT seeks stand on plea against them over waste release. Hyderabad: The National Green Tribunal on Thursday issued notices to the Telangana Pollution Control Board, Pharma giants Aurbindo, Hetero and others and to the Centre, directing them to explain their stand on a petition seeking to register cases against them …
More than 28 lakh cases of TB are reported every year in the country. Only 14 lakh patients are listed by government hospitals. Hyderabad: The decision of the Union ministry of health to file criminal cases against doctors and pharmacists who do not report tuberculosis cases has not gone down …
