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 …
HERBAL BEER Looks, smells, even tastes like it. But is it beer? WHAT GOES IN? Pub-crawlers beware, herbal beer is just raw mango mixed with herbs (Andrographis or kalmegh and Tinospora or guduchi), fermented for a week. Besides mango (Mangifera indica), other fruit such as amla (Phyllanthus emblica), guava (Psidium …
researchers at the University of Delhi have given a us pharmaceutical company the licence to use a novel technique developed by them that could help commercialise gene therapy. The gene delivery technology developed by A N Maitra and his associates at the university's Department of Chemistry uses calcium phosphate nanoparticles …
two Indian pharmaceutical companies, including pharma major Ranbaxy, have voluntarily pulled their anti- aids drugs out of the World Health Organization's (who) " prequalification' list. While Ranbaxy withdrew its seven remaining drugs on the list, Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs withdrew all its six drugs on it. The reason cited was flaws …
This health study was undertaken to estimate the impact of pollution on the health of the community at Medak. Its findings show that there is an overwhelming increase in most types of systemic diseases across the study group, as compared to the control group at Medak District. The study group …
Is the World Health Organization (WHO) targeting Indian generic drug manufacturers? The UN agency recently removed three anti-HIV drugs produced by India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited from its prequalification list. This list is used by procurement agencies to select good quality medicines. Exclusion from the list could affect the availability of …
only for the needy: A heart drug could soon become the world's first medicine to be used for a specific ethnic group. The drug, manufactured by US-based pharmaceutical company NitroMed, was abandoned in the 1980s after unimpressive results of a trial. But the findings hinted at differences between white and …
Pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd's Rs 107 crore expansion plan in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district has become a bitter pill the company's being made to swallow. Farmers' suspicions, indeed outright distrust, have placed the company's initiative to expand the capacity of an existing plant at Ganguwala, Paonta Sahib, under a …
the uk pharmaceutical major GlaxoSmithKline (gsk) is facing a lawsuit in the us for allegedly concealing the information about its anti-depressant drug Paxil. The data pertains to adverse side-effects like suicidal tendencies, which the medicine could have on children. The case, filed in the state Supreme Court in Manhattan by …
yet another instance of outsourcing of high-risk clinical drug trials has been brought to light by a child specialist of a reputed hospital in New Delhi. The doctor recently told Down To Earth (dte) that in August last year, Mumbai-based contract research organisation Siro Clinpharm Private Limited asked him to …
Canada is on the verge of becoming the first nation to honour a World Trade Organization (wto) pledge on making available cheap generic drugs for hiv/aids-afflicted people in developing countries. The Canadian House of Commons unanimously approved a bill (c-9) that would amend the country's patent laws. The proposed legislation …
should doctors heed science or the law? Science, says the Indian Medical Association (ima). In a report submitted recently to the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw), an expert group of the ima has strongly recommended the off-label use of drugs. It, however, adds that such usage should …
The pharmaceutical industry in South Africa (sa) is threatening to shut up shop unless the country's government rethinks its new drug policy. The policy has been in place since January 2004. It controls the incremental rise in prices at different stages after a drug leaves the factory. The industry argues …
A us scientist, who triggered a bioterrorism scare by illegally shipping back bubonic plague samples he collected from Tanzania last year, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a Texas court. The scientist, Thomas Butler, would also have to shell out us $50,000 in fine and restitution. Butler was …
India currently ranks amongst the top five manufacturers of bulk drugs in the world. Having muscled out hefty competition from foreign multinationals, the country is almost self-sufficient in drugs. This is largely because Indian drug manufacturers circumvent patent rules by slightly altering their production processes. But they will not be …
a communication gap between the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (geac) and Department of Biotechnology (dbt) recently triggered a controversy involving an indigenous drug for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). The geac ticked off Hyderabad-based Shanta Biotechnics Private Limited, the developer of the drug, for undertaking the clinical trials of the …
The battle of the bulge doesn't stop with the consumer. Pharmaceutical giants are vying for the premium position in marketing lifestyle drugs. And mergers seem to be the best way to cut the opponents to size. Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo has offered to buy out its French rival Aventis for us $60.1 …
cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices in this regard to Mumbai-based Sun Pharmaceuticals and Uttar Pradesh-based Dabur India Limited. While the latter has removed Foliripe
On the eve of World aids Day (December 1), Union health minister Sushma Swaraj announced that aids medicine would be made available through the national aids control programme from next year. The plan hinges crucially on an agreement with the Indian generic drug industry to supply medicines cheap. Indeed, companies …
