In a groundbreaking effort to enhance public health safety, India's drug regulatory authority has unveiled a digital tracking system for co...

India's drug regulator has directed state authorities to enforce strict testing of all raw materials used in medicines. This action follows...

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has issued guidelines directing hospitals and blood banks to charge only processing fees for b...

The government aims to open 10,000 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJKs) by March to improve the common man's access to gene...

Shortages of Remdesivir injections in the market were noticed in April and May 2021 due to a sudden surge in the demand for the drug for ma...

Besides ramping up domestic production facilities of medicines like Amphotericin, the government said it has also issued guidance on the ju...

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, in a letter to chief secretaries of all states and Union territories (UTs), also conveyed that there will...

In the letter, NPPA Chairperson Shubhra Singh said the increase in number of COVID-19 cases in the country has resulted in surge of demand ...

The ministry has shot off a letter to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), asking it to ascertain how many states and Union territ...

In a letter to the Chief Secretaries of all states and union territories (UTs), National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) chairperso...

"The state drug controllers (SDCs) and food and drugs administrators (FDAs) of all the states and union territories have been requested to ...

The health ministry had asked the commerce ministry to issue a notification banning import of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), ...

The purpose of the scheme is to assist state governments and Union Territories which are contributing in controlling the inter-state and cr...

The central government has not been able to fix the price of 98 drugs used for treating various diseases such as tuberculosis, cardiac cond...

The central government has not been able to fix the price of 98 drugs used for treating various diseases such as tuberculosis, cardiac cond...

"The total number of persons affected due to swine flu is 12,963 while the total number of deaths was 774 till February 20 this year," a so...

23 new fixed dose combinations have been granted licences by state authorities without mandatory approval of the Drug Controller General of...