WHO’s advisory group set to meet on October 26 to decide on Covaxin EUL approval

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet on Tuesday to finalise the assessment required for granting the much-awaited emergency use Listing (EUL) to Bharat Biotech‘s Covaxin. “If there…

Govt Job for for M.Pharm, M.Sc as Project Associate at IIIM

The Laboratory was established in 1941 as a research and production centre, known as Drug Research Laboratory of J&K State and was later taken over by Council of Scientific and…

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids

Pfizer says kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine are safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing infections in elementary school children. Details of the study were posted online Friday as U.S. regulators consider…

Govt To Form Panel For Certifying Covid Deaths

Ranchi : Acting on the directions of the Union health ministry in the light of the Supreme Court guidelines for proper documentation of Covid-19 deaths with specific mention of cause,…

Sales Of Covid-19 Drugs Plunge

Ahmedabad: With the Covid-19 cases plummeting steeply across the state and remaining in double digit for the past few months, the sales of drugs — favipiravir and remdesivir — used…

Sir Ganga Ram scripts 375 ‘POEMS’ in treating a Debilitating Disease

New Delhi: Make no mistake. Poem is a procedure named Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy. It treats a debilitating disease called Achalasia Cardia. The hospitals pioneer the treatment. Achalasia Cardia is…

Critical Shortage Of Chips Hits Life-Saving Medtech Devices

MUMBAI : The severe shortage of semiconductor chips is now going to hit where it hurts — critical life-saving devices and the medtech industry. The growing uncertainty and supply disruptions of…

India needs to raise public health spending to 2.5-3.5% of GDP: Report

India needs to raise public health spending to 2.5 – 3.5 per cent of GDP to support healthcare transformation, according to a report released on Thursday. As per the Union Budget 2021-22, the total public health…

Govt Job for M.Pharm, B.Pharm at National Institute of Nutrition

National Institute of Nutrition was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as Beri-Beri Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.…

CDSCO To Enhance Testing Capacity For Medical Devices

New Delhi : The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) is in the process of enhancing capacity for testing medical devices in the country in tandem with its efforts to bring…