Man Arrested With 39,000 Tramadol Tablets
Tarn Taran: A police team from Sarai Amanat Khan arrested a motorcyclist and recovered 39,000 Tramadol Tablets, an intoxicant, on Sunday night. Sub-inspector Karamjit Singh, who was heading the patrolling party,…
Nagaland Gets New Drug Control Administration Complex
Kohima: Minister of Health and Family Welfare, P. Paiwang Konyak, on Friday, inaugurated the office complex of Drug Control Administration and Nagaland Drug Laboratory at the Directorate of Health and Family…
Illegal Drug De-Addiction Centre Busted In Gurugram, Operator Arrested
Gurugram: A joint team of the chief minister’s flying squad and the health department busted a drug de-addiction centre being run illegally here and arrested one of its operators, police…
Diabetes Drug Among 48 To Fail Quality Test
NEW DELHI: The drug regulator said it found 48 critical medicines, meant for domestic consumption, as “not of standard quality” in August. The samples were collected across the country. Some of…
WHO Recommends R21/Matrix-M Vaccine For Malaria Prevention
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of malaria in children. The recommendation follows advice from the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of…
24 Patients, Including 12 Newborns, Die Within A Day At Nanded Govt Hospital Due To Shortage Of Medicine
New Delhi: Twelve newborns and as many adults died at a state-run hospital in Maharashtra’s Nanded in 24 hours, the hospital dean said, blaming a shortage of medicines and hospital…
Gujarat: Doctor Practiced For Two Decades Without Formal Education, Finally Caught
Vadodara: A doctor, who had been practising without formal medical education for two decades, was finally caught in Gujarat’s Vadodara, officials said. Aseemkumar Sankhari was the medical practitioner of Raipur village…
Jabalpur: Drug Injection Sellers Arrested
Jabalpur : Omati police arrested two accused of selling drug injections. Of these, one is an injection delivery provider and the other is a supplier. Police also seized 184 drug injections,…
Firozpur STF Arrested Drug Smuggler With 1100 Intoxicating Pills
Firozpur : As part of the anti-drug campaign being run by the Firozpur STF Range of Punjab, a medical drug smuggler has been arrested with 1100 drug pills. A case…
Resistance To Last-Resort Antibiotics Carbapenem Growing In India: ICMR Report
MUMBAI : The majority of the country’s sickest patients may no longer benefit from carbapenem, an antibiotic that effectively treated pneumonia and septicemia until a decade back, according to the latest…
