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29 Feb 2024

NPPA Fixes Retail Price Of 69 Drug Formulations, Ceiling Price Of 31

The new price ceiling will apply to drugs like Antitoxins, Cholesterol, Sugar, Pain, Fever, Infection, Stopping Excessive Bleeding, Calcium, VitD 3, Children's Antibiotics, Zee Media channel reported.

Indian Railways

05 Sep 2023

Indian Railways To Study Impact Of Medicines Taken By Train Drivers On Safety

Lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, and severe mental stress due to the harsh working conditions are on a rise among Railway drivers and guards.

04 Apr 2023

DNA: Indian medicines are bad or thinking of some countries?

More than 20 percent of the generic drugs used worldwide are manufactured in India. 60 percent of the vaccines supplied worldwide are made in India. See in DNA whether Indian medicines are bad or the thinking of some countries is bad.

30 Mar 2023

Centre Exempts Import Duty On Drugs, Food Used For Treatment Of Rare Diseases

This exemption will result in substantial cost savings and provide much needed relief to the patients. The Government has also fully exempted Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) used in treatment of various cancers from basic customs duty.

Pharma companies

30 Mar 2023

'Govt To Take Strict Action Against Erring Pharma Companies': Health Minister

During a visit to Jan Aushadhi Kendra in Dehradun, the health minister stressed that the issue of medicines is definitely linked with public health.

28 Mar 2023

Licences Of 18 Pharma Firms Cancelled For Manufacturing Spurious Drugs

source said that action has been taken against 76 companies in the first phase of a special drive against the manufacture of substandard drugs.

20 Aug 2022

'IMPOSSIBLE': Dolo-650 makers on its alleged Rs 1000 crore marketing budget

Pharmaceutical company Micro Labs Limited denied gifting 'freebies' to doctors to promote Dolo-650 tablets It claims to have done a business of just Rs 350 crore when Covid was at its peak An NGO based on findings by CBDT had raised this issue

20 Aug 2021

Udaan's trial-run for drone delivery of medicines complete

The trial was conducted within a 15-km radius at Gauribidanur in the outskirts of Bengaluru by Udaan for the last mile delivery of medicines. During the pilot, two variants of drones were successfully tested - Medcopter X4 and Medcopter X8. Pharma Deliveries of up to 2kg payload were tested at various distances in the designated area varying from 2-7 kms aerial distance.

12 Jun 2021

NO tax on Black Fungus Medicines: GST Council

The GST Council has now approved the recommendations of GoM on GST rates on COVID relief material. It further agreed to stick to a 5% GST rate on the COVID-19 vaccine.

12 May 2021

PM Narendra Modi reviews availability of oxygen and medicines

At a high-level meeting which Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired to review the availability and supply of oxygen and medicines, it was noted that states are being provided medicines in good quantities with the Centre in regular touch with the manufacturers to enhance their production and extend all help needed.

Ram Vilas Paswan

22 Aug 2020

Ram Vilas Paswan calls out pharma company for flouting labelling norms

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan decided to take action against a drug distributor in Andhra Pradesh after receiving numerous complaints. The Cabinet Minister directed the authorities concerned to register a case against the company. Also, its warehouse was raided and all the goods were seized on his instructions.

15 Dec 2019

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15 Dec 2019

Milk prices increases by rs.3/ltr in Delhi NCR

From today prices of Amul and Mother dairy milk in Delhi NCR increases by 3 rupees.

Jammu and Kashmir

25 Aug 2019

Govt rubbishes medicine shortage in J&K report, says 'situation under control'

The Jammu and Kashmir administration also denied any instance of over pricing of medicines, baby food and life-saving drugs.

05 Feb 2018

64 percent of antibiotics being sold in India haven't been regulated: UK study

Antibiotic resistance is slowly gaining momentum as a global crisis.

01 Jan 2018

Alternative drugs for mild infections could combat superbugs

Doctors are often quick to prescribe strong antibiotics for mild infections, helping bacteria evolve resistance to even the most potent drugs.

23 Oct 2017

Antibiotic resistance: Can it be reversed?

Findings imply that if chemicals could be developed to inhibit beta-lactamase enzymes, a significant proportion of antibiotic resistance could successfully be reversed.

08 Oct 2017

Are expensive medicines making your condition worse? This is the Nocebo effect, says study

Researchers at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany studied if price might also affect the strength of the nocebo effect.

21 Sep 2017

Scientists create world's first 'molecular robot' to build new drugs

The molecular robot, which is millionth of a millimetre in size, can be programmed to move and build molecular cargo using a tiny robotic arm.

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