Biocon urges govt to exempt cancer, rare-disease drugs from tax in Budget
India should eliminate tax on drugs for cancer treatment and for chronic and rare diseases, the chairperson of major drugmaker Biocon Ltd said ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s budget…
GST cut on health insurance premium deferred, cancer drugs to become cheaper
New Delhi: The GST Council, headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Monday announced setting up a Group of Ministers (GoM) on slashing the tax rate on life and health…
Large pharma companies increase prices ofgeneric drugs by up to one thousand percent
Leading drug companies including Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent, according to a far-reaching lawsuit filed on…
