State Government soon be approached by the Nagaland Pharmacy Council demanding immediate intervention of the Licences to unqualified people to run pharmacies

Unqualified People are running pharmacy shops freely in the state and now NSPC (Nagaland State Pharmacy Council) is serious regarding the issue and soon will contact the state government Chief…

First Lab established in Meerut To Check Drug Sensitivity In TB Patients

Good news for the Meerut city and especially for TB patients and the city got its first Culture and Drug Sensitivity Lab to test the adverse drug reactions on Tuberculosis…

Woman and baby died after C-section performed by the drunk doctor in Gujarat

MBBS doctor Paresh Lakhani, Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of Sonavala Hospital was arrested for a serious medical negligence. He is a senior doctor and allegedly performed C-section of a Woman…

Bayer to cut 12,000 jobs after Monsanto takeover

BERLIN: German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Thursday it would slash 12,000 jobs in a major restructuring following the mammoth takeover of Monsanto, enabling it to save 2.6 billion…

Jubilant Life arm inks pact to acquire Inipharm Inc for around USD 28.5 mn

NEW DELHI: Drug firm Jubilant Life Sciences Thursday said its subsidiary Drug Discovery and Development Solutions Ltd (DDDSL) Singapore has entered into an agreement to acquire 10 per cent stake…

Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics

NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan…

Stem Cell poised to give entrenched Modern Medicine a run for its money

New Delhi: Stem Cell therapy is all set to become mainstream medicine as this non surgical and minimally invasive technology is making medical world sit up and notice by its…

Pen is Mightier than Cancer, an indelible saga of triumph

New Delhi: He pulled off a coup of sorts and inked his battle against cancer on pages of eternity. Medical science may boast of many a cancer survivor but former…

FDA approves first biosimilar to Roche cancer drug Rituxan

Celltrion Inc’s Truxima on Wednesday became the first biosimilar to Roche Holding AG’s $7-billion-per-year cancer drug Rituxan to be approved in the United States to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The approval…

Govt Plans Database Of Drugs To Prevent Use Of Similar Brand Names

New Delhi : The government is considering a databank for all medicine brands to prevent pharmaceutical companies from using the same or similar looking and sounding brand names for drugs, especially…