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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...
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...
Pharmaceutical Companies Need To Submit Safety Reports Every 6 Months For New Drugs
Sep. 24 | India’s drug regulator asked pharma companies to submit the mandatory safety details of their new drugs for every six months for the first two years from their launch to plug some worrying gaps, failing which, it threatened to cancel licences of...
Indian Drug Regulator Faults In Drug Approval
Jun. 13 | India’s top drug regulatory agency is charged by parliament panel report for violating laws and colluding with pharmaceutical companies to approve medicines without clinical trials. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization which oversees clinical...
Ministry Of Health Declares TB A Notifiable Disease
Jun. 13 | Tuberculosis is declared a notifiable disease by the Ministry of Health, Government of India. This ensures the proper detection and management of TB patients who escape the government’s TB control programme. This implies that if a new TB patient is...
Is Cheap Generics Panacea For India’s Poorest
Apr. 17 | Cheap generic drugs are meant to change the lives of poor person suffering from the dreaded diseases like cancers. But the cashless and hungry millions of India still gaping and looking at the sky for the help they require. For them the knowledge of generic...
Good Clinical Practices For Ayurvedic Drugs In India
Feb. 8 | The Department of Ayush has recently issued a circular making clinical trials mandatory for all the existing and new ayurvedic medicinal products in the country. A set of guidelines has been already prepared by the Department for the purpose and it plans...
Supreme Court Sent Notice To Centre On Illegal Drug Trials
Feb. 8 | The Supreme Court of India sent notice to the Central Government on 6 February, 2011 on a writ petition alleging that illegal clinical trials of untested drugs were being conducted by pharmaceutical companies on adults, children and even mentally ill...
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