Private Hospitals in India offer Patients their Shoulders to cry on

New Delhi: Patients visiting private hospitals in India feel kind of captive there, their minds full of all sorts of apprehensions; that they would be fleeced, they would be operated…

Medicines Seized From Roorkee Unit Fail Lab Tests

Roorkee : Several packets of branded medicines, which were allegedly being manufactured in a local pharma factory, have failed lab tests. A joint team of state drug control department and…

Haryana: Chemist Held For Smuggling Narcotic Tablets In Kurukshetra

KURUKSHETRA : Acting on the tip-off, the police have arrested an accused person who ran a medical store at Pipli Road in Babain town of Kurukshetra district, after recovering 500…

Zydus Cadila gets USFDA nod for generic drug

New Delhi: Drug firm Zydus Cadila on Friday said it has received approval from the US health regulator to market Albuterol tablets, used to treat shortness of breath caused by breathing problems such as asthma.…

Bharat biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin gets DCGI nod for phase 3 clinical trial

New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday permitted Bharat Biotech to conduct phase 3 clinical trials of its indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine with certain conditions, officials said. A subject expert committee on Covid-19 at…

Covid : India’s active cases below 7 lakh after 21-day decline

New Delhi : India’s active Covid cases went below the 7-lakh mark on Thursday as the downtrend continued for the 21st day running, with the number of discharged patients outstripping fresh…

Anti-parasitic drug ivermectin not to be included for Covid-19 treatment protocol: Health Ministry

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has decided not to include ivermectin medicine (anti-parasitic drug) in the National Clinical Management Protocol for Covid-19 for the treatment of virus-infected patients. The move comes after the Central government’s…

FSSAI out to Campaign against Menace of Adulterated Khoa

New Delhi: Adulteration of Khoa, the main ingredient of many a sweet in India is all pervading. So names of sweets like Barfies, Pedas, milk cake , Kalakand and Halwas…

Coronavirus vaccine update: Chinese vaccine shows positive results, US govt probes Vaxart’s tall claims

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that international cooperation on a coronavirus vaccine could boost the global economy by $9 trillion to pull it out of the economic crisis.…

Remdesivir and interferon fall flat in WHO’s megastudy of COVID-19 treatments

One of the world’s biggest trials of COVID-19 therapies released its long-awaited interim results yesterday—and they’re a letdown. None of the four treatments in the Solidarity trial, which enrolled more…