Look who @ 76 sees Light at the end of COVID Tunnel!
New Delhi: Diabetes, hypertension, respiratory failure and kidney failure. Add to this, twin fractures in limbs. Bogged down by these co-morbidities, the lady @76 is a perfect candidate for being…
Use Food as Medicine while Stuck in Home
New Delhi: One of the last words of Late Steve Jobs, the tech wizard of Apple Computers fame is – Eat your food as your medicines, otherwise you will have…
ICMR disbands committee formed on research for drug and vaccine
MUMBAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has disbanded a committee tasked with research for developing a vaccine and drugs to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, a member of…
COVID-19: USFDA granted emergency use to Roche for antibody test
The Emergency use approval has been granted to Roche from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test in determining if people have ever been infected with…
USFDA granted approval to Aurobindo Pharma for Flucytosine Capsules
Aurobindo Pharma received its final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Flucytosine Capsules, 250 mg and 500 mg. Flucytosine Capsules are used for…
CDSCO: WHO-GMP/CoPP validity to be extend by six months
A letter has been issued to all the States and Union Territories Drug Controllers by Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) informing about a six-month extension of validity of WHO…
COVID-19: US FDA includes ventilator developed by NASA in emergency use authorisation (EUA)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) included under the ventilator emergency use authorization (EUA), a ventilator developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to treat covid-19 patients.…
Covid-19: Government initiates indigenous manufacturing of PPE kits, ventilators
The Government has started indigenous manufacturing of personal protection equipment (PPE) kits, ventilators, masks, oxygen cylinders besides ramping up hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) production from 12.23 crore to 30 crore per month.…
Department of Pharmaceuticals recommends export of 2000 MT in respect of Paracetamol API
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has allowed six major manufacturers of paracetamol active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to export 2000 metric tonnes of paracetamol API. The recommendations has been issued…
USFDA allows emergency use of Gilead’s Remdesivir drug for Covid-19 patients
The Emergency use of an investigational anti-viral vaccine to treat COVID-19 patients has been permitted by US food and drug regulatory body after research. It is the first drug shown…
