With Rs 30K cr turnover Baddi emerges global pharma hub

Shimla With an annual turnover of Rs 30,000 crore, of which Rs 9,500 crore involves exports, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh’s largest industrial township in Solan district, has turned into a major…

Why Healthcare must Re-Imagine itself and How ?

The old paradigm of business as a linear value chain is now facing extinction. Uber, AirBnB, Amazon and many-many more, are changing the paradigm by integrating resources that they do…

LABORATORY ACCREDITATION: How achieved? – Process of Accreditation

There are FOUR distinct stages for accreditation process as explained below. Stage I • Prepare your laboratory’s application for NABL accreditation, giving all desired information and enlisting the test(s) along…

Problem en-masse: Where do I dispose leftover pills?

How India & other Countries must look towards Pharmacies to dispose their unwanted Meds. Over dose & Unused Medicines: I suffer occasional flare of headaches around at 1-2 episodes a…

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.…

MSc grad uses factory to make psychotropic drug without licence

Bengaluru In what appears to be a major bust, an MSc (Chemistry) graduate, who had set up a factory to manufacture and sell a psychotropic drug without obtaining the necessary…

HPTU Sponsored National level conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines” at Himachal Institute of Pharmacy, Paonta Sahib

Paonta Sahib: Himachal Institute of pharmacy, Paonta Sahib, H.P. organized a one day National Conference on “Next Generation Smart Medicines”. Dr. N.N. Sharma, Dean Academics, Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur,…

Pregnant women given expired drugs at Nainital hospital?

Nainital Bringing to the fore the callousness of government hospitals towards its patients, an RTI reply has shockingly revealed that several pregnant women admitted to Sushila Tiwari Government Medical College…

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…

Cost of cochlear implant operations may go down to Rs 1 lakh

New Delhi The government is planning to put the high-cost Cochlear implant surgery within the reach of most citizens, with talk of experimental trials of an indigenous version estimated to…