Govt to amend D&C Rules to specify batch number on final container

Union health ministry is planning to amend Drugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Rules to specify batch number on separate final container label of trade pack (final packed unit) for vaccines containing multi-components. The amendment is…

Haryana Police Seize 74,000 Tablets Of Prohibited Drugs In Karnal

CHANDIGARH : Haryana Police have seized 74,400 tablets of prohibited drugs in Karnal district. Police have also arrested three persons in this connection.While one accused was held with 1500 tablets/capsules, the…

Health Ministry To Merge PLIM And HPL With PCIM&H For Standardization Of ASU&H Drugs

Mumbai : The Union health ministry will soon merge the Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL) with the Pharmacopoeia Commission of Indian Medicine and…

Govt May Get Oxford Shots In Jan-Feb, At 50% Of MRP

New Delhi : India is likely to get the first lot of anti-Covid shots in late January-early February which will allow some frontline workers like doctors, nurses and municipal staff to…

Covid will soon be past episode of 21st century: Harsh Vardhan

NEW DELHI: The rapidness at which coronavirus vaccines are being developed will have a significant effect on new technologies that will help in faster drug discoveries, lowering the cost and making it…

WHO Removes Remdesivir From List of COVID-19 Medicines

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that it has suspended Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir, which was touted as COVID-19 treatment, from its prequalification list—- an official list…

Medical Devices: Atmanirbhar Versus Burden of Whopping Import Bill on India

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi’s invocation of Atmanirbhar Bharat (self reliant India) after depletion of Indian economy due to COVID catastrophe has led to great churning in country’s every domain.…

Atmanirbhar India in Accurate & Speedy COVID-19 Testing from December

New Delhi: Apollo hospitals group has introduced first of its kind indigenously developed and AI powered COVID 19 testing method which epitomises speed and accuracy, attributes lacking so far in…

Govt Job for Pharmacist under ECHS

The ECHS Central Organisation is located at Delhi and functions under the Chief of Staff Committee (COSC) through AG and DGDC&W in Army HQ. The Central organisation is headed by…

Everybody Can’t Be Allowed To Prescribe Medicines For Treatment, Says SC

New Delhi : Everybody cannot be allowed to prescribe medicines, observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while hearing an appeal against the Kerala High Court order which had said that AYUSH…