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Low-Cost Diarrhoea Vaccine – A Breakthrough In India
May. 16 | India showed a major breakthrough by its scientists who have unveiled a low-cost vaccine against a deadly virus that causes severe diarrhoea that kills about half-a-million children worldwide every year. The vaccine, Rotavac, against the deadly Rotavirus...
India Tops Cervical Cancer Deaths
May. 11 | According to a report released by a US-based research and advocacy group, nearly 73,000 women dying every year with cervical cancer and India ranks on top of the list. The Crisis Card used the data of WHO, United Nations, the World Bank and IARC Globocan,...
House Panel In India On Banned Drugs Abroad
Apr. 30 | There are certain pills and combinations that are illegally approved, harmful, cleared without proper clinical trials or that are even banned in the US and other countries. Delivering a severe rap on the government’s knuckles, a parliamentary standing...
Delhi High Court Refused Interim Relief To Merck
Apr. 12 | The Delhi High Court refused to grant interim relief on a patent row to US pharmaceuticals major Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) which sought a restraint on Indian firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on manufacturing and marketing anti-diabetes drugs Zita and Zita-Met. Justice...
Supreme Court Of India Rejects Novartis’ Glivec Patent
Apr. 2 | According to an AFP report, the Supreme Court of India rejected a patent bid by Swiss drug giant Novartis Monday in a landmark ruling that activists say will protect access to cheap generic drugs and save lives in developing nations. Novartis fought a...
Pharma Giants Anxiously Wait For Verdict On Glivec Patent
Mar. 28 | The recent intellectual property decisions in India have battered global drugmakers. They are girding for a landmark court ruling next week that could have broad consequences for their ability to sell lucrative patented medicines in the country. The Supreme...
India-European Union FTA Signals Fear Among India Pharma Sector
Mar. 28 | Drugmakers and healthcare activists have serious comcerns that the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is underway, may contain a provision that could imperil local industry. They have urged the government to keep patent infringement...
Indian Govt. To Introduce National Policy On Drug Abuse
Mar. 27 | Government of India seeking to check the alarming rise of drug abuse in various parts of the country, will soon introduce a `National Policy on Drug Abuse` and has formed an expert committee to suggest guidelines for it. The need to have a National Policy...
Saroglitazar From Diabetic Capital Of India
Mar. 21 | Pharma major Cadila Healthcare has been working on a molecule for diabetes dyslipidemia, to be called ‘Saroglitizar’. The name is believed to have been derived from the Gujarati word ‘saro’, meaning good. The company may soon become...
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