Ban Advised On Nimesulide Doses Above 100 Mg For Adults, Black Box Warning On All Packs: ICMR Report
All formulations of the popular painkiller Nimesulide above 100 milligrams should be banned, and a “black box” warning made mandatory on all products containing the drug, says the report prepared…
Early combination treatment can prevent heart attacks and save lives
Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all. This is according to a…
Teen dies after being injected with painkiller medicine; two held in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Two persons who sold painkiller pills without prescription to three teenagers were arrested here as one of them died, police said on Monday. The painkiller tablets were sold to…
Himachal govt rebuts Nadda’s claims on Medical Device Park
A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president and Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda accused the Congress-led Himachal Pradesh government of scrapping the Medical Device Park project, the…
UPSIDA offers plots for pharma manufacturing units in Lalitpur
Lucknow: To encourage investment in the pharmaceutical industry, the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) launched a project for the allocation of industrial plots under the ‘Bulk Drug and…
Rigaku Partners with SPERA PHARMA to Boost Pharmaceutical Development
Rigaku Corporation, a Group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation, and SPERA PHARMA, Inc. (headquarters: Osaka; President & Representative Director: Keitaro Iwaki; hereinafter “SPERA PHARMA”) have initiated a strategic partnership aimed…
Three drug smugglers arrested in South Salmara-Mankachar
Guwahati: In an intensified crackdown on drug trafficking, Mankachar police arrested three drug smugglers in separate operations on Sunday night in Assam’s South Salmara-Mankachar district, seizing Yaba tablets and suspected heroin.…
Man accused of sexually harassing air hostess in Gurugram hospital arrested
The accused who allegedly raped a flight atendant in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Medanta Hospital in Haryana’s Gurugram has been arrested. The accused has been identified as…
Indian Pharma Giants Eye Bigger Share of $145 Billion U.S. Cancer Drug Market
New Delhi: Indian pharmaceutical companies are aggressively expanding their presence in the fast-growing U.S. oncology generics market, which is currently valued at $145 billion and growing at a healthy annual…
Health ministry in talks to shield India’s pharma industry amid impending tariffs from team Trump
New Delhi: Hectic discussions were held in the Union health ministry this week to weigh options to shield India’s pharmaceutical industry from an imminent tariff regime that the Trump-led US…
