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Essential medicines including painkillers, antibiotics to get costlier by 12% from SaturdayIndia’s drug pricing authority on Monday allowed a price hike of 12.1218% from April 1 for scheduled drugs that are under price control. Th...29 Mar, 2023, 05.18 PM IST- Taking a Covid-19 vaccine not binding on anyone: Govt tells SCVaccine beneficiaries, according to the government, have the option to access more information about the vaccine and its adverse events. In...01 Dec, 2022, 09.48 AM IST
- Covaxin data on pregnant women is not enough: WHOThe government gave its nod to give the vaccine to pregnant women next month based on a recommendation from National Technical Advisory Gro...04 Nov, 2021, 06.44 AM IST
- Experts fret over delay in WHO nod for CovaxinThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), which collaborated in developing the Covid-19 vaccine, said the issue is between the WHO and...28 Oct, 2021, 06.07 AM IST
- Deaths after COVID vaccination doubled to 180 in 2 weeks, shows reportAccording to an analysis of the data as of March 20, of the 494 adverse events reported, 124 were deaths, 305 were serious events that requ...09 Apr, 2021, 08.09 AM IST
- Panel on jab adverse events to take stockThe National Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) Committee meeting will take place in the wake of some European nations such as Ge...16 Mar, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
- Centre does a U-turn, says no plans to make pharmaceutical marketing code mandatoryOn September 18, when chemicals minister DV Sadananda Gowda was asked if the government had decided to make the Uniform Code for Pharmaceut...24 Sep, 2020, 08.50 AM IST
- Can't directly deal with complaints of unethical practices: Department of pharmaceuticalsDoP also asked pharma associations to submit compliance report and form committees to look into action taken on the complaints. Pharma lobb...23 Sep, 2020, 11.53 PM IST
- NPPA extends the ceiling prices of orthopaedic knee implants for another yearThe drug pricing watchdog had last month extended the price cap on orthopaedic knee implants till September 15. The earlier price cap was v...16 Sep, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
- Encouraging innovation: Government may move 'innovative' knee implants out of price controlThe National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) “is deliberating on the ceiling prices of the knee implants as there have been demands...31 Aug, 2020, 10.15 AM IST
- 4 years on, promised mandatory pharma ethics code elusiveThe code aims to end unethical practices like companies bribing doctors in cash or kind to prescribe their medicines. On Friday, the secret...24 Aug, 2020, 10.30 AM IST
- Fresh lot of rapid antibody kits to arrive in a few daysThe rapid antibody test kits from China, Korea, France and some Indian companies are likely to arrive soon. “Out of the total 45,00,000 kit...05 May, 2020, 04.33 PM IST
- Many essential drugs priced much higher than manufacturing cost: WHOEven off patent drugs which are in the market for long and commonly used for diseases like HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are priced very hi...17 Apr, 2019, 11.51 AM IST
- SC asks government to explain shift in drug pricing formulaUnder the new policy, instead of the earlier cost-plus policy, the govt would go by the average market price of best-selling brands to dete...06 Oct, 2017, 11.25 AM IST
- Focus shifts to expensive pacemakers, lenses, cathetersAfter the capping of cardiac stent prices, the Rajya Sabha petitions committee has turned its attention to overpricing of other medical dev...11 May, 2017, 01.00 PM IST
- Govt seeks complaints on ‘dissolving stents’, but has no system to act on itThe Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission in Ghaziabad is the national coordination centre for the materio vigilance programme.15 Apr, 2017, 01.14 PM IST
- NPPA may cut stent prices by more than 50 per centThe drug-pricing regulator's proposals have added fuel to an ongoing debate about which formula for capping these devices would improve pat...16 Jan, 2017, 12.29 AM IST
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