IISER Pune scientists uncover bacteria’s new survival secret
Pune: A recent study at the Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, found that Escherichia coli can quickly survive antibiotics by temporarily making extra copies of a key…
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…
Minimum import price set for Penicillin G, salts
New Delhi: The Union government has set a minimum import price (MIP) for some key pharmaceutical inputs like penicillin G and its salts, 6 APA and amoxicillin. According to a…
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),…
Maha to manufacture goatpox vaccine at its Pune institute
PUNE: The Maharashtra animal husbandry department will begin manufacturing goatpox vaccine at its Pune-based Institute of Veterinary Biological Products (IVBP), making it the first government-run institute in India to develop…
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…
UP plans US FDA-accredited medical device testing lab
Lucknow: In a major push to strengthen India’s medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing ecosystem, the Uttar Pradesh govt is working on an ambitious project to establish a US FDA-accredited medical…
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…
English alphabets can’t be trademarked: Delhi HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court recently held that English alphabets cannot be monopolised through trademark law and refused interim protection to the mark ‘A TO Z’ used by a pharmaceutical…
