SC notes Twisha Sharma death probe to be handed to CBI; stresses fair investigationTwisha Sharma case updates: The Supreme Court has recommended a CBI probe into the death of model-actor Twisha Sharma. The court emphasized...
SC grants bail to UAPA narco-terror accused: bail is the rule and jail an exception even in UAPA casesThe Supreme Court has granted bail to Syed Iftikhar Andrabi, who was embroiled in a narco-terrorism case. The court underscored the fundame...
Eli Lilly Foundayo weight loss pill price, side effects, dosage, treatment: When will sales for oral weight-loss drug begin?Foundayo Eli Lilly weight loss pill: Eli Lilly drug, orforglipron, which will be sold under the brand name Foundayo, is a once-daily oral m...
Look-alike, sounding similar drugs likely to face strict actionEarlier, in January India's Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), India's apex drug advisory body, deliberated on the issue of same brand n...
DCGI chief VG Somani gets three months extensionThe extension period will come to effect from November 11. This is the second extension that Somani got. His term was set to end on August ...
States must ensure special teams to mercilessly clamp down on black marketing of drugs: Centre to SCMinistry of Health and Family Welfare has requested the state governments to take all necessary measures to stop black marketing or hoardin...
A multivitamin tops drug sales for the first time in October, overtakes diabetes drugsA 30-year-old brand manufactured by the little-known Apex Labs, Zincovit registered sales of Rs 50 crore during October, dethroning the lar...
SC asks Centre, AIIMS to expedite action plan on growing menace of drugs abuseThe apex court had on July 22 asked the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to formulate a national action plan to curb the growing men...
India may soon give OTC drugs definitionThe Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is expected to amend rules on drugs and cosmetics to include a separate schedule fo...
Remedy post-GST medicine shortages, government tells pharma companiesThe country has reportedly witnessed a shortage in essential medicines to treat diabetes and other life-threatening disease after July 1.
Health Ministry panel rejects Sanofi's clinical waiver plea for dengue vaccineThe decision of the apex committee is expected to delay the entry of the vaccine, which has been approved in Mexico, the Philippines and Br...
Govt allows import of drugs in small quanity for personal useGovt has allowed the import of drugs in small quanitities for personal use and patients requiring them will have to obtain a permit from th...
26 new drugs permitted for sale without trials in IndiaSources in the Health Ministry admit that as many as 26 new drug molecules have been approved since 2010 without testing them.
- Panel to look into Drug Controller General of India's working meets
A panel will look into the findings of the 59th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the functioning of the Central Drugs Stan...
- Aanjaneya Lifecare to raise $ 75 million for capex and acquisitions
Aanjaneya will raise $ 75 mn by issuing securities and foreign currency convertible bonds to fund its ongoing capex and acquisitions.
- Planning Comm seeks cabinet note on new Drug policy
The controversial National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006, which aimed at bringing more drugs under price control, has become a sore point betw...
- CDSCO in talks with WHO over fake drugs
Concerned over rampant circulation of fake drugs in the global market, India's apex drug control body has taken the matter to the World hea...