Madras HC bars e-sale of drugs from Thursday

Mumbai: In what could be a big disappointment for e-pharmacies and a huge inconvenience to patients, the Madras high court barred online sale of medicines from December 20, while directing…

Medicines worth Rs 80,000 found dumped in BTM Layout park

On Saturday night, residents of BTM Layout found 15 big cartons of medicines, with tablets, syrups and syringes inside, dumped at an open ground in 2nd Stage, BTM Layout. It…

IPC planned to organize 1st IPC Workshop on Human Vaccines & Immunosera

Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) planning hard to organize ‘1st IPC Workshop on Human Vaccines & Immunosera: Regulatory and Quality Considerations’ on December 19, 2018, at IPC Regional Office, Hyderabad. This…

Online sales of Medicine banned by Delhi High Court across the country

A ban on the online sale of medicines ordered by the Delhi High court and no medicine will be sold by e-pharmacists across India. Court also directed the Centre and…

South Africa’s Aspen says on track to dispose of baby milk business

JOHANNESBURG: Aspen Pharmacare said on Thursday it expected the conditions for the sale of its infant formula business to be in place by the first quarter of 2019. The drugmaker’s…

Heat-Stable Carbetocin To Be Available In India By 2019 End

New Delhi: While the Central government is getting ready to restrict private companies from making or distributing oxytocin, a life-saving drug administered to pregnant women to prevent and treat postpartum…

DTAB Approves Regulatory Provisions For Online Medicine Sales

New Delhi: In a fillip to e-pharmacies that are facing multiple lawsuits over their legal status, the Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB), the country’s highest drug advisory body on technical…

Rusan Pharma launches Parkinson’s Disease drug

New Delhi: Drug maker Rusan Pharma Thursday said it has launched a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. The drug — Aposan — is used to treat motor fluctuations in patients…

Jury convicts ex-employees of pharmacy in U.S. meningitis outbreak

By Nate Raymond BOSTON: A co-owner and four ex-employees of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy were convicted on Thursday of committing frauds and other illegal activities that helped boost its business…

Samples Of Oral Polio Vaccine Found Adulterated: MoS Health

New Delhi :Two samples of a batch of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) were found to be adulterated and containing type 2 polio virus by the Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL),…