Import Of Cancer Drug For Personal Use Exempted From GST, Council Reduces Tax On Food Served In Cinema Halls

The GST council in its 50th meeting decided to reduce tax rates on the cancer drug Dinutuximab and Food for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP) used in the treatment of rare…

Poisoned Cough Syrup Traced To India Reveals Lapses In Regulation

New Delhi : Ebrima Sagnia was frantic as he carried his son through the doors of a hospital one evening last September. A few days earlier, Lamin had been a rambunctious…

Centralised Procurement System To Be Set Up At AIIMS Delhi

New Delhi : The AIIMS here will establish a centralised procurement system to streamline the procurement process and promote uniformity and transparency. At present, a decentralised procurement system exists wherein various…

850 sedative injections seized from a medical shop at Burma Camp in Visakhapatnam, five arrested

The City Task Force (CTF) officials, in coordination with the Kancharapalem police, raided a medical shop at Burma Camp and seized around 850 Pentazocine Lactate Injections which are generally used…

HMD Foundation injects Power into Amrita Hospital’s Rural Outreach

Faridabad/ New Delhi: HMD, the renowned syringe and medical device maker, has empowered Amrita Hospital Faridabad in its rural outreach for providing people quality healthcare. Under its CSR initiative, it has…

Med stores in Odisha’s Angul sealed for dealing in spurious drugs

CUTTACK:  A Special Task Force (STF) of the Drug Enforcement Squad on Thursday sealed Maa Budhi Medicine Store, a retail outlet at Kadampadia and Ganapati Enterprisers, a wholesale medicine firm at…

ICMR issues list of technologies supported under ICMR- MDMS to foster indigenous manufacturing of medical devices

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued list of technologies supported under ICMR-Medical Device and Diagnostics Mission (MDMS) Secretariat to foster indigenous manufacturing of medical devices and diagnostics.…

High Time to learn Simple CPR to arrest Sudden Cardiac Arrest Deaths

New Delhi: It seems heart is under siege post Covid and people are dropping dead like nine pins, thanks to cardiac arrests precipitating unwarranted in old and young alike. This…

Boy dies after being administrated wrong injection by ‘ fake doctor ‘ in TN

VANIYAMBADI: A 13-year-old boy who was administrated an injection for fever by a ‘quack’ in Thirupattur’s Vaniyambadi died within a few hours after he experienced severe stomach pain. The Vaniyambadi…

Medical Devices Regulation To Come Into Force From October 1: DCGI

New Delhi : Medical devices of all four categories (A, B, C, and D) will be brought under the regulation by October 1 and as of now only two groups (A…