Maha FDA Approaches State Govt To Form Registered Society For Price Monitoring Cell
Mumbai: Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has submitted a proposal to the state government to form a registered society for setting up price monitoring and resource unit (PMRU) at…
Govt May Hike Custom Duty On Medical Devices By 15-20%
Mumbai : The Central government is actively considering a proposal to increase custom duty on medical devices by 15-20% to promote indigenous manufacture of medical devices. The announcement to this…
Free pharma samples come under GST lens
Top executives of India’s $37-billion pharmaceutical industry have a new destination on their frequent travel plan – Kanpur. The director-general of the intelligence wing for goods and services tax (GST)…
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…






