Global medical-tech firms, India locked in tussle after stent price sting supriya kashyap kashyap30 April 2017 12:12 PM ISTNew Delhi/Mumbai : A group of global medical-technology companies plans to tell Indian officials next month that any further price control measures...
Government Prohibits Stent companies to withdraw stents for Next Six Months Ruby Khatun Khatun25 April 2017 3:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a bid to prevent Multinational Stent makers from removing their next generation stents from the Indian Market, the central government...
Drug controllers seize spurious and expired medicines worth Rs 10 crore in Patna Ruby Khatun Khatun23 April 2017 1:38 PM ISTPatna: Bihar Drug Controller and Bihar police recently raided the godowns of a drug company and seized fake and expired medicines worth over Rs 10...
Unfortunate: Biotech firm pulls pioneering gene therapy due to no demand Ruby Khatun Khatun23 April 2017 10:17 AM ISTBy Ben HirschlerLONDON: The biotech company behind the Western world's first gene therapy and the most expensive prescription medicine in history is...
NPPA to penalise companies offering freebies on stent sales supriya kashyap kashyap21 April 2017 10:55 AM IST New Delhi : Drug price regulator NPPA warned coronary stent manufacturing firms of strict action if they are found giving freebies on sale of the...
PM's push for generic drugs to shift focus to chemists, says pharma industry body supriya kashyap kashyap19 April 2017 11:41 AM ISTNew Delhi : Patients may end up with drugs that "may not be effective at all" if doctors were made to prescribe only generic medicines as indicated by...
ASPA lobbies for mandatory authentication for medicines supriya kashyap kashyap14 April 2017 11:23 AM ISTKolkata : The Authentication Solution Providers Association (ASPA) emphasised the need for specific anti-counterfeit laws in the country to stem the...
Taking steps to discourage import of bulk drugs: Government supriya kashyap kashyap12 April 2017 12:10 PM ISTNew Delhi : Government is taking various policy initiatives, including withdrawal of customs duty exemption, to discourage import of bulk drugs and...
FDA approves first drug to treat tardive dyskinesia supriya kashyap kashyap12 April 2017 12:09 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ingrezza (valbenazine) capsules to treat adults with tardive dyskinesia. This is the first drug...
Attention Cardiologists: Please Report adverse events related to Abbott's BVS stents to CDSCO savita thakur thakur11 April 2017 1:28 PM ISTPatients and healthcare professionals are advised to report adverse events suspected to be associated with the use of Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular...
Anti-dumping duty likely on Amoxycillin import from China supriya kashyap kashyap11 April 2017 11:48 AM ISTNew Delhi : India may impose anti-dumping duty of up to USD 8.71 per kg on Amoxycillin, an anti-biotic medicine, from China to ringfence domestic...
FDA allows marketing of first direct-to-consumer Gene Test supriya kashyap kashyap10 April 2017 11:35 AM ISTThe US Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of 23 and Me Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk (GHR) tests for 10 diseases or...
