Pharma bosses told to submit affidavits on ethical practicesPharmaceutical companies asked to submit undertaking to government for compliance with UCPMP 2024 by June 30, as per DoP circular dated May...
Pharmaceutical bodies welcome uniform marketing code"We welcome the UCPMP. It is a balanced order that ensures that there is a healthy and ethical engagement between the pharmaceutical indust...
Govt notifies new marketing code for pharma industryThe government has implemented a new Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) to control unethical practices in the phar...
Pharma firms may face legal action for unethical marketing practicesThe committee is supposed to submit its report in 90 days. It has been tasked to examine the provisions of stakeholder departments with res...
Government forms committee to regulate marketing practices of pharma companiesThe panel includes secretary of the department of pharmaceuticals S Aparna, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, and Central Board of Dir...
Pharma association gives clean chit to Dolo-makerThe IPA has submitted a report to the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) and National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) stating that...
Drugmakers' body IPA says it's examining the controversy around Dolo medicineMicro Labs has rejected the allegations, terming them as "baseless". Sudarshan Jain, secretary general of IPA, told ET its member companies...
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...
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...
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...
Pharma companies must adhere to marketing norms during conferences: GovtAsking the lobbies to ensure that no unethical promotion of pharma products is done during conferences, it said companies must adhere to th...
Department of Pharmaceutical asks industry to regulate promotional practicesThe DoP secretary has told both the domestic and multinational pharma lobby groups along with the medical device industry to “strictly” com...
Government to make pharma marketing code mandatory: Hansraj Gangaram AhirGovernment has decided to make Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practice (UCPMP) mandatory in order to control unethical practices.
'No government firm under pharma department produces cancer drugs'None of the state-owned firms under the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) produces any kind of cancer treatment drugs, Parliament was inf...
Government may bar pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctorsPharma companies may be barred from giving gifts to doctors, as government is considering making it mandatory for them to follow uniform ma...
OPPI asks Department of Pharmaceuticals to make Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices a statutory codeThis would lead to increased levels of transparency and accountability across the healthcare industry and remove ambiguity.
- Mulling a uniform code of pharma marketing practices: Govt
The minister said there were reports in newspapers that some unethical marketing practices were being followed by certain pharma companies.