Health Writers Consultation red flagged Fake Health News as a menace
New Delhi: Fake health news is increasingly invading the mind space of patients in India. Hope selling and cure peddling are becoming fatal tools of taking treatment and health seekers…
PGI’s pharmacy store expected by next year
CHANDIGARH: PGI’s first own pharmacy store is expected to come up by next year. The project has already been delayed by a year due to pending engineering and civil wo…
Govt To Revise Guidelines For Tackling NSQ Drugs
New Delhi: The pharmaceutical regulators will soon get more teeth to deal with poor-quality medications that are manufactured and marketed in India. A government proposal to revise the guidelines for…
New TB drugs now safe for kids: WHO
MUMBAI: While India is still to make newer anti-tuberculosis drugs such as bedaquiline and delamanid widely available to patients suffering from drug-resistant TB, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced…
US FDA warns Genetech for marketing dangerous stem cell products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Genetech, Inc. of San Diego, California and its president, Edwin N. Pinos for marketing stem cell products without FDA approval and for…
Mind your Heart while enjoying Feast this Christmas
New Delhi: As Christmas crescendo fills Delhi’s ecosystem, you might be having food fantasies. But Apollo’s Chief Clinical Nutritionist Dr Priyanka Rohatgi offers gut wisdom to make the indulgence heart-friendly…
CBD Help Health
Cannabidiol(CBD), discovered in 1940 and one of the 113 cannabinoids identified in hemp plants. Cannabinoids are some diverse chemical compounds that can alter neurotransmitter release in the brain with acting…
U.S. FDA approves Alexion Pharma’s rare blood disorder drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc’s rare blood disorder drug Ultomiris, nearly two months earlier than expected. The drug’s sales are expected to reach…
Aurobindo Pharma gets USFDA nod for hypokalemia treatment drug
New Delhi : Aurobindo Pharma Friday said it has received final approval from the US health regulator to manufacture and market Potassium Chloride extended release tablets, used in the treatment…
Sun Pharma arm gets USFDA nod for epilepsy drug
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Friday said one of its subsidiaries has received approval from the US health regulator to market Elepsia XR, an antiepileptic drug. The United States Food and…
