Johnson and Johnson asked to cut down price of new TB drug
Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) has called upon US drug maker c (J&J) to cut down the price of its new tuberculosis drug Bedaquiline, as the high price of the drug…
Free Hepatitis B, C treatment to roll out in Mumbai in December
MUMBAI: Mumbaikars will get free treatment for Hepatitis B and C viral infections when the national programme for control of viral hepatitis takes off in December. Hepatitis B and C…
LifeCell launches ‘Transformational’ Newborn Screening Program
New Delhi, 2018, LifeCell International, India’s stem cell bank and mother and baby diagnostics company today announced the launch of “RightStart” – the world’s first Integrated DNA testing for Newborn…
Noida: Doctors warned as chemists allege some selling medicines to patients
NOIDA: Taking cognisance of complaints from the chemists’ association, the drug licencing authority (DLA) of Meerut division has warned doctors operating out of private clinics/nursing homes in the six districts…
Mumbai: PIL against antibiotics’ sale without prescription
MUMBAI: A lawyer has filed a PIL in the Bombay HC against the Union and state governments, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) and drug regulator to prevent the rampant…
The government should incentivise setting up infrastructures in tier-2, tier-3 cities: Nivesh Khandelwal
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Nivesh Khandelwal, Founder and CEO, LetsMD, New Delhi, to know more about challenges by way of affordability in healthcare and how LetsMD is playing…
Some patients of dengue may not have fever, warn Delhi AIIMS doctors
NEW DELHI: In rare cases, a person may be infected with the dengue virus without having any fever, doctors at AIIMS have said in a published case study. The case…
Pharma co buys Rs 350-cr plot
One of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the country is moving its corporate headquarters. And, in doing so, it has given a fillip to the city’s realty market by buying…
Merck KGaA says might strike partnership deal this year
MUNICH: German drugmaker Merck KGaA might agree partnership deals to jointly develop two of its most promising experimental medicines with a rival as early as this year, but more likely…
1 lakh benefitted under PMJAY in one month of its launch: Nadda
New Delhi: Nearly a month after the roll out of the Centre’s PMJAY health insurance scheme, one lakh people have availed the benefits of the ambitious programme, Union Health Minister…
