NPPA fixes retail price of 36 new drugs
New Delhi: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed and notified the retail price of 37 new drugs in its recent meeting, under the provisions of the Drugs Prices…
FDI equity inflow into pharma sector grows to $1.27 billion in H1 FY26
New Delhi: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity inflow into the drugs and pharmaceuticals sector in the country has reported over two-fold growth during the first half of the fiscal…
16 states and 6 UTs did not submit NSQ data in December to CDSCO
New Delhi: Even as the drug regulators in the country have announced a total of 167 drug samples tested during the month of December as Not of Standard Quality (NSQ),…
Unnecessary use of steroid leads to risk of severe fungal infections: Doctors
Pune: After the use of steroids for routine viral fevers and mild respiratory infections has grown among people, doctors in the city warned that it could increase the risk of…
Spurious cosmetic packaging factory busted in northwest Delhi
New Delhi: In a significant breakthrough under ‘Operation Kavach,’ the Cyber Cell of the Crime Branch, Delhi, has unearthed a major illegal manufacturing unit involved in the fabrication of empty…
Union Minister Anupriya Patel launches NBEMS online AI training programme for doctors
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Smt. Anupriya Patel, today launched an online training programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Education developed by the…
IIT Roorkee develops next-generation antibody discovery platform
Dehradun: In a significant step towards affordable healthcare, pandemic preparedness, and indigenous biotechnology innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) has developed a next-generation antibody discovery platform with…
CDSCO to dispose online applications pending for more than two years
New Delhi: In an effort to reduce the backlog and clear the long-pending applications with lack of response from the applicants, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has introduced…
DoP may exempt 11 more drugs from public procurement rules
New Delhi: The Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has proposed to add 11 more drugs including insulin and monoclonal antibodies to the list of 84 drug formulations it has mentioned in…
Evading Customs Duty, Pure Alcohol Importers Making Profits
Mumbai : Several firms across the state, including some from south Mumbai, are under the scanner of the Customs Department after a huge consignment of pure ethyl alcohol, which was misdeclared…
