NPPA Revises Retail and Ceiling Prices of 35 Drug Formulations; Fixes Prices of 34 New Drugs, Cholecalciferol, Oxaliplatin and Sun Pharma’s Diclofenac Gel
ED attaches assets, freezes bank account in counterfeit medicines racket; searches five premises in Bengaluru
Hyderabad Startup Working On Personalised Cancer Vaccine: What It Means For Cancer Treatment
Medicines that cure Us are making Our Environment Sick
ZEN- G packs a punch in Organ Donation as Over 500 Students pledge Organs
PGIMS recalls drug amid probe into deaths
NPPA list brings little relief: No price cut for 25% cancer drugs
Centre Mandates Minimum One-Year Shelf Life For Imported Drugs
For Aakash Healthcare, Community People are Apples of its Eyes
Not mandatory to recall stocks released to the market prior to implementation of TMR: NPPAWoman and baby died after C-section performed by the drunk doctor in Gujarat
MBBS doctor Paresh Lakhani, Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of Sonavala Hospital was arrested for a serious medical negligence. He is a senior doctor and allegedly performed C-section of a Woman…
Bayer to cut 12,000 jobs after Monsanto takeover
BERLIN: German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Thursday it would slash 12,000 jobs in a major restructuring following the mammoth takeover of Monsanto, enabling it to save 2.6 billion…
Jubilant Life arm inks pact to acquire Inipharm Inc for around USD 28.5 mn
NEW DELHI: Drug firm Jubilant Life Sciences Thursday said its subsidiary Drug Discovery and Development Solutions Ltd (DDDSL) Singapore has entered into an agreement to acquire 10 per cent stake…
Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics
NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan…
Stem Cell poised to give entrenched Modern Medicine a run for its money
New Delhi: Stem Cell therapy is all set to become mainstream medicine as this non surgical and minimally invasive technology is making medical world sit up and notice by its…
Pen is Mightier than Cancer, an indelible saga of triumph
New Delhi: He pulled off a coup of sorts and inked his battle against cancer on pages of eternity. Medical science may boast of many a cancer survivor but former…
FDA approves first biosimilar to Roche cancer drug Rituxan
Celltrion Inc’s Truxima on Wednesday became the first biosimilar to Roche Holding AG’s $7-billion-per-year cancer drug Rituxan to be approved in the United States to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The approval…
Govt Plans Database Of Drugs To Prevent Use Of Similar Brand Names
New Delhi : The government is considering a databank for all medicine brands to prevent pharmaceutical companies from using the same or similar looking and sounding brand names for drugs, especially…
Biotech company Moderna expects to raise up to $521.7 mln in IPO
Biotech company Moderna Inc said on Wednesday it expected to raise up to $521.7 million in its initial public offering, valuing the company at about $7.8 billion at the top…
Govt To Bring Out Norms For Collecting Drug-Resistant Microbes To Facilitate Research
New Delhi: The Central government is working on an extensive protocol to pinpoint multidrug-resistant microbes and will soon come out with a set of guidelines for clinicians and microbiologists to facilitate…