Drug MNCs for keeping patient aid plan out of trade margin formulaThe Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) recommended excluding Patient Assistance Programmes (PAPs) from Trade Margin R...
Search for 22 missing army personnel continues in SikkimThe search for the missing Indian Army soldiers continues, with the focus on downstream areas of Teesta Barrage. Army vehicles and stores a...
Price cap on concentrators, five other medical devices extendedIn a recent meeting held in the NPPA, the drug pricing regulator "deliberated upon the matter and directed that the MRPs of five medical de...
Pharma companies ask government to exempt cheap drugs from price controlThe pharmaceutical industry has sought an exemption from ceiling price for all low-priced formulations up to Rs 5 per unit. In a meeting he...
Govt to discuss TMR with pharma bodies on May 16In this regard, the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) and the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) have invited members of ph...
Plan to cap margins of key medicines in final stagesThe Department of Pharmaceuticals under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers has sought tweaking of paragraph 19 of the DPCO for the f...
Centre could exclude low-cost meds, rare disease drugs from trade margin rationalisationThe confusion over which diseases are to be considered as “rare” and which drugs as “orphan” (used to treat rare diseases) has led to the d...
Govt to fix TMR on 139 drug formulations in 1st phase to lower pricesThe government plans to fix TMR in a phased manner and has identified 139 formulations which include drugs like Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, in...
Drug cos against move to rationalise trade margins on patented productsThe representatives of Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI), which represents multinational pharma companies and domest...
Pharma bodies bat for 'One Molecule One MRP' policyRepresentatives of several small and medium pharma companies have suggested that the government adopt a "one molecule-one MRP" formula inst...
Government may 'rationalise' drug trade margins in a bid to reduce costsThe meeting was attended by representatives from the Indian Drug Manufacturers Association (IDMA) and Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA),...
Cap on trade margin of 42 non-scheduled cancer drugs by NPPA led to up to 90 pc reduction in MRP: Mansukh Mandaviya"The total annual savings on account of revision of ceiling prices of medicines under the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), pric...
FSSAI seeks details of CSE tests on honey; questions body for not conducting SMR testStating that it has taken note of the CSE investigation on adulteration in honey, FSSAI said it had already made SMR test mandatory as it i...
Govt to initiate talks with stakeholders on drug trade marginsThe Department of Pharmaceuticals along with the Drug pricing regulator, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) will discuss the ...
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- HC directs MoC to trace 44,000 missing trademark files
The Delhi high court has directed the ministry of commerce and industry to trace 44,000 missing files relating to registration of trademark...
- HC directs MoC to trace 44,000 missing trademark files
The Delhi High Court has directed the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to trace 44,000 missing files relating to registration of trademark...