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  • April 15, 2016
No opinion’ from drug lab stumps FDA

Nashik The Nashik Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in a fix as the drug control laboratory has expressed “no opinion” on the oxygen sample it had sent a couple…

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  • April 15, 2016
Alarm over rapid rise of killer fungal infection

Chennai Heena Patel (38) is in shock. The doctors recently removed almost half of her face, including the right eye, in a surgery to save her life. Heena has seen…

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  • April 15, 2016
NIB generates 3645 blood transfusion related ADRs under HvPI

Mumbai As a part of the government’s Haemovigilance Programme of India (HvPI), around 3645 blood transfusion related adverse reaction reports have been generated in transfusion reaction reporting form (TRRF) from…

MSc grad uses factory to make psychotropic drug without licence

Bengaluru In what appears to be a major bust, an MSc (Chemistry) graduate, who had set up a factory to manufacture and sell a psychotropic drug without obtaining the necessary…

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  • April 15, 2016
Doctor arrested for medical negligence

Ghaziabad In an alleged case of medical negligence, a doctor was booked for amputating fingers and thumb of a woman after giving a wrong injection to her, police said today.A…

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  • April 15, 2016
NPPA asks drug makers to furnish prices of 56 formulations

New Delhi In an effort to fix the ceiling prices of 56 drug formulations, including those for epilepsy, diabetes and heart diseases, the government has given drug makers and marketing…

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  • April 15, 2016
50% of ‘asthmatics’ don’t really have the disease, say experts

New Delhi When seven-year-old Deepak was rushed to a Delhi hospital a few years back with worsening asthma symptoms, doctors were puzzled. The boy had been on inhalers and even…

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  • April 15, 2016
After Maggi, Patanjali Atta Noodles found ‘sub-standard’

Meerut A team of Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FSDA) based in Meerut has found a Patanjali Atta Noodles sample “sub-standard”, with ash content in the taste maker exceeding the…

HPTU Sponsored National level conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines” at Himachal Institute of Pharmacy, Paonta Sahib

Paonta Sahib: Himachal Institute of pharmacy, Paonta Sahib, H.P. organized a one day National Conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines”. Dr. N.N. Sharma, Dean Academics, Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur,…

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  • April 7, 2016
HPTU Sponsored National level conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines” at Himachal Institute of Pharmacy, Paonta Sahib

Paonta Sahib: Himachal Institute of pharmacy, Paonta Sahib, H.P. organized a one day National Conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines”. Dr. N.N. Sharma, Dean Academics, Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur,…