COVID-19: Health Ministry asks AIOCD to ensure availability of critical drugs management of virus
Health ministry has forwarded a list of 55 drugs for ICU management of Covid-19 patients and a list of 96 drugs for general availability and treatment of various other health…
Ensure Corona reports be available within 2 days: Delhi High Court
New Delhi: Delhi High Court asked the Delhi government to ensure that reports of Covid-19 tests conducted on suspected patients is available within 24-48 hours. A bench of Justices Hima…
Gilead: Remdesivir to be available globally
New Delhi: For the expansion of global capacity and production of remdesivir, the drug that has shown results for shortening time for Covid-19 patients, the Gilead Science Inc has said…
COVID-19: Health Minister calls upon all scientific departments to develop enhanced synergy
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, the minister for Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Health and Family Welfare reviewed through video-conferencing the various initiatives CSIR has taken up to mitigate COVID-19 in…
ICMR disbands committee formed on research for drug and vaccine
MUMBAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has disbanded a committee tasked with research for developing a vaccine and drugs to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, a member of…
COVID-19: USFDA granted emergency use to Roche for antibody test
The Emergency use approval has been granted to Roche from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test in determining if people have ever been infected with…
CDSCO: WHO-GMP/CoPP validity to be extend by six months
A letter has been issued to all the States and Union Territories Drug Controllers by Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) informing about a six-month extension of validity of WHO…
COVID-19: US FDA includes ventilator developed by NASA in emergency use authorisation (EUA)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) included under the ventilator emergency use authorization (EUA), a ventilator developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to treat covid-19 patients.…
Covid-19: Government initiates indigenous manufacturing of PPE kits, ventilators
The Government has started indigenous manufacturing of personal protection equipment (PPE) kits, ventilators, masks, oxygen cylinders besides ramping up hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) production from 12.23 crore to 30 crore per month.…
USFDA allows emergency use of Gilead’s Remdesivir drug for Covid-19 patients
The Emergency use of an investigational anti-viral vaccine to treat COVID-19 patients has been permitted by US food and drug regulatory body after research. It is the first drug shown…
