NPPA fixes price caps for 12 anti-diabetic medicines

Drug price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) on Monday said it has fixed the ceiling prices for 12 anti-diabetic generic medicines, including glimepiride tablets, glucose injection and intermediate acting insulin solution. In…

Govt Extends Validity Of Licences Of Distilleries & Other Units To Manufacture Hand Sanitizer Till Dec 2022

Mumbai : In a bid to ensure sufficient availability of hand sanitizer at reasonable price in the domestic market, Union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution has directed…

Vaccine Makers Ask For Drug Regulatory Reforms

MUMBAI : Vaccine makers have asked PM to initiate reforms at the drug controller’s office, in line with global standards, so that locally made or developed vaccines are competitive in international…

Govt Job for Pharmacists under Staff Selection Board

Bijapur district is one of the Twenty Eight districts of Chhattisgarh State and Bijapur town is the administrative headquarter of this district. It was earlier part of Dantewada District. The…

Bharat Bitoech is waiting for DCGI nod for children’s C-19 Vaccine

Bharat Biotech’s Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Krishna Ella said that they are awaiting approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for a C-19 vaccine for children. He said their vaccines…

WHO’s advisory group set to meet on October 26 to decide on Covaxin EUL approval

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet on Tuesday to finalise the assessment required for granting the much-awaited emergency use Listing (EUL) to Bharat Biotech‘s Covaxin. “If there…

Govt Job for for M.Pharm, M.Sc as Project Associate at IIIM

The Laboratory was established in 1941 as a research and production centre, known as Drug Research Laboratory of J&K State and was later taken over by Council of Scientific and…

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids

Pfizer says kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine are safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing infections in elementary school children. Details of the study were posted online Friday as U.S. regulators consider…

Govt To Form Panel For Certifying Covid Deaths

Ranchi : Acting on the directions of the Union health ministry in the light of the Supreme Court guidelines for proper documentation of Covid-19 deaths with specific mention of cause,…

Sales Of Covid-19 Drugs Plunge

Ahmedabad: With the Covid-19 cases plummeting steeply across the state and remaining in double digit for the past few months, the sales of drugs — favipiravir and remdesivir — used…