Punjab: 11-Month-Old Given Expired Vaccine At Amritsar’s Private Hospital
Amritsar: Parents of an 11-month-old child held a protest at a private hospital in Amritsar district on Wednesday after they found that an expired vaccine had been administered to their child.…
Expert Panel To Soon Weigh Plan To Use Generics For Prescription Drugs
New Delhi: An expert committee is likely to meet soon to deliberate on a contentious proposal to assess the feasibility of allowing generic substitutions for prescription drugs, said people familiar with…
Illegal Ozempic Shipments Are Coming Into US, Says CBP
Washington: Customs and Border Protection (CBP in the US says it is regularly intercepting shipments of counterfeit and otherwise illegal versions of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes therapy Ozempic, as consumers in…
CBI To Probe Ex-Assistant Drugs Controller Misconduct: High Court
New Delhi: In a significant development, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the investigation of a case involving…
FoPE Raises Concerns Over New Schedule M’s Impact On Cosmetic Manufacturing
New Delhi: The pharmaceutical industry has raised concerns regarding the government’s newly notified schedule M that proposes a blanket ban on manufacture of any other article or product apart from drugs…
DCGI Mandates Adherence To BIS Standards For Medical Devices
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), Rajeev Raghuvanshi, has mandated that medical device manufacturers and in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing laboratories comply with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)…
No Licence Renewal For Blood Centres Sans Hospital
Dehradun: All blood centres operating outside of hospitals in Uttarakhand will no longer be eligible for licence renewal, a circular issued on Saturday by the Uttarakhand Food and Drug Authority (FDA)…
Students Will Not Be Able To Take Admission In Pharmacy Institutes With Fake Documents, Strict Monitoring
Jaipur: To provide quality education in pharmacy institutes, the central government has prepared to end the duplicate system. Strict action will be taken against fake students and teachers in newly opened…
Solan: DCA Under Lens As Drug Firm Didn’t Disclose Buyer Details
Solan: The working of the Drug Control Administration (DCA), Baddi, has come under the scanner as despite large-scale sale of psychotropic drugs in the last one year, the management of Biogenetic…
CDSCO Constitutes Eight-Member Subcommittee To Look Into OTC Classification
New Delhi: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has constituted a sub-committee to examine matters regarding amendment of the Drugs Rules to incorporate necessary provisions for drugs to be…
