A Delhi High Court ruling favors Natco Pharma against Roche's rare disease drug. Natco can now launch generic risdiplam, used for spinal mu...

The Delhi High Court has permitted Natco Pharma to launch its affordable generic version of risdiplam, a crucial drug for spinal muscular a...

Recent GST rate cuts on critical medicines are set to significantly reduce costs for treatments of conditions like multiple myeloma, lung c...

The government has significantly reduced GST rates on 41 highly priced medicines, including those for cancer, rare diseases, and heart cond...

The Delhi High Court has granted an interim injunction against Zydus Lifesciences, an Ahmedabad-based drug maker, following a patent infrin...

A recent report in The Times of India reveals that Roche may have profited immensely from risdiplam, a drug for spinal muscular atrophy (SM...

Each bottle of Risdiplam lasts around 12 days and that will take the cost to roughly ₹30,000 per month for the patient. Sources said Roche ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered Natco Pharma to maintain status quo on the launch of Risdiplam until April 2. Roche, which holds the paten...

The Delhi High Court denied Roche's request to temporarily restrain Natco Pharma from producing its spinal muscular atrophy drug, citing pu...

The Supreme Court has temporarily stayed a Kerala High Court order directing the Centre to provide additional funds for a patient's expensi...

Despite the import duty waiver on life-saving drugs for rare diseases announced in the union budget, patients might not benefit due to high...

Health groups and patient advocates are raising concerns over patent monopolies on rare disease drugs in India. They argue that these monop...

A 24-year-old SMA patient in Kerala High Court revealed that Risdiplam, a crucial SMA drug, could be locally produced for Rs 3,000 annually...

The recent GST exemption on medicines for rare diseases in India is unlikely to help many patients as the drugs are still too expensive, sa...

For children affected by SPA, gene-therapy has to be ideally given before the child reaches two years of age and this therapy costs over Rs...

Drugs under clinical trials in other countries can be brought to India to treat life-threatening diseases, but prohibitive cost remains a w...

While the mothers waited for guidelines, seven of the 34 children chosen for compassionate use of the new drug, Risdiplam, passed away. “It...