India Joins Mission To Harmonise Pharmacopoeial Standards
New Delhi: The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is now a member the Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group (PDG). As the Indian pharmaceutical industry is “a major manufacturer of the world’s medicines,” Jaap…
Norris Medicines Recalls Toxic Cough Syrups, Says Only Sold In India
New Delhi: India’s Norris Medicines has recalled a cough syrup and an allergy syrup that the country’s federal drugs regulator had found to be toxic, its managing director said on…
Illegal Drug De-Addiction Centre Busted In Gurugram, Operator Arrested
Gurugram: A joint team of the chief minister’s flying squad and the health department busted a drug de-addiction centre being run illegally here and arrested one of its operators, police…
Diabetes Drug Among 48 To Fail Quality Test
NEW DELHI: The drug regulator said it found 48 critical medicines, meant for domestic consumption, as “not of standard quality” in August. The samples were collected across the country. Some of…
Allahabad HC Puts On Hold UP’s Order To Suspend Sanjay Gandhi Hospital’s Licence
Lucknow/Amethi: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday stayed the Uttar Pradesh government’s order suspending the licence of Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Amethi. A division bench of Justices Vivek…
SPEED fame Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Aashish Chaudhry bags Distinguished Honor
New Delhi: Dr Aashish Chaudhry, MD of Aakash Healthcare, whose unique algorithm SPEED has brought about a paradigm shift in the quality of knee replacement surgery, has bagged Distinguished Entrepreneur…
Tobacco Cessation may grind to a halt, if Prescription Proposal goes through
New Delhi: Prescription proposal looms large over Nicotine Replacement therapy (NRT), most effective intervention in Tobacco Cessation campaign. In the prescription versus OTC debate, the latter clearly wins approval of…
Open letter to Bandaru Dattatreya,Governor Haryana in public interest.
Gustakhi Maaf Haryana-Pawan Kumar Bansal: Open letter to Bandaru Dattatreya,Governor Haryana in public interest.You are visiting B.D,Sharma Health University, Rohtak alongwith Anil Vij who had once described it a dead…
Falsified Avastin Have Blinded Patients In Pakistan
Lahore: Dozens of people in Pakistan have lost their sight after being injected with what is suspected to be a falsified version of Roche’s Avastin medicine. The patients in Punjab province…
44,900 Bottles Of Phensedyl Seized In East Jaintia Hills
SHILLONG: Altogether 44,900 bottles of banned Phensedyl were seized from a truck, which was abandoned on the national highway in East Jaintia Hills after being chased by police on Tuesday…
