TABLE CONFERANCE OF INDIAN EXPORTERS WITH US FDA
New Delhi A high-level Indian delegation, led by Sudhanshu Pandey, joint secretary in the Union ministry of commerce and industry, recently visited US FDA under Brand India Campaign to discuss…
OXIDATIVE STRESS AND ANTI-OXIDANTS
Free radicals (super oxide, hydroxyl radicals and nitric oxide) and other reactive species (hydrogen peroxide, hypochloric acid and proxynitrite) produced due to environmental chemicals, endogenous chemicals, especially stress hormones and…
PHARMACOVIGILANCEIS NEED OF THE HOUR IN INDIA
New Delhi Medicine is a double edged sword either saves life or kills life. Safety of medicine is a serious concern and it depends how you care medicine on all distribution points…
FSSAI relaxes guidelines that got Nestle in trouble
Lucknow The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the Central authority mandated to look out for the interest of consumers and also to ensure that “safe” and “wholesome” food…
Hospitals can’t detain patients over dues: HC
Mumbai The Bombay high court on Tuesday said hospitals cannot detain patients for non-payment of bills. “If a patient does not pay, it can’t be that the hospital detains him.…
No opinion’ from drug lab stumps FDA
Nashik The Nashik Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in a fix as the drug control laboratory has expressed “no opinion” on the oxygen sample it had sent a couple…
Alarm over rapid rise of killer fungal infection
Chennai Heena Patel (38) is in shock. The doctors recently removed almost half of her face, including the right eye, in a surgery to save her life. Heena has seen…
NIB generates 3645 blood transfusion related ADRs under HvPI
Mumbai As a part of the government’s Haemovigilance Programme of India (HvPI), around 3645 blood transfusion related adverse reaction reports have been generated in transfusion reaction reporting form (TRRF) from…
Doctor arrested for medical negligence
Ghaziabad In an alleged case of medical negligence, a doctor was booked for amputating fingers and thumb of a woman after giving a wrong injection to her, police said today.A…
NPPA asks drug makers to furnish prices of 56 formulations
New Delhi In an effort to fix the ceiling prices of 56 drug formulations, including those for epilepsy, diabetes and heart diseases, the government has given drug makers and marketing…
