Government to phase out Draize testing for drugs on rabbits kanchan joshi joshi30 Aug 2016 9:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: Drugs Technical Advisor Board, which comes under the Health Ministry, has recommended a ban on Draize test on Rabbits. The drive came...
Govt to amend norms in 15 days for fixing prices of 350 drugs savita thakur thakur30 Aug 2016 9:37 AM ISTNew Delhi : Drugs Prices Control Order will be amended in the next 15 days to enable the regulator NPPA to fix prices of about 350 medicines whose...
Stakeholder involvement in rational policy on stent pricing much welcome: NATHEALTH savita thakur thakur29 Aug 2016 2:30 PM ISTThe government has shown its willingness to make NLEM effective and rational by incorporating the recommendations of various stakeholders including...
Africa's health strategy can benefit India's pharma firms savita thakur thakur25 Aug 2016 2:33 PM ISTAccra : With a $106.8 million strategy to tackle Africa's public health emergencies over the next five years, stakeholders here feel it will be an...
Govt to hire more inspectors to curb counterfeit drugs menace savita thakur thakur24 Aug 2016 3:38 PM ISTMumbai : As part of efforts to strength pharma regulations, the government plans to step up vigilance on sale of spurious drugs by increasing the...
DoP earmarks Rs 300 crore for common facilities in medical parks savita thakur thakur22 Aug 2016 12:42 PM ISTNew Delhi : Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has come up with a scheme to finance common facility centres like component and radiation testing in...
NPPA cuts prices of malaria, HIV, cancer drugs by up to 45 pc savita thakur thakur20 Aug 2016 11:56 AM ISTNew Delhi : Prices of 22 essential drugs used for treatment of cancer, HIV, bacterial infections and malaria among others, have been capped by the...
Govt mulls ban on OTC fairness creams Meghna A Singhania16 Aug 2016 4:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: Based on the recommendations of many a health professionals, the central government is now mulling over a ban of OTC sales of fairness...
Parliamentary panel pulls up ministry over pending assurances on pharma savita thakur thakur15 Aug 2016 10:04 AM ISTNew Delhi : Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has been pulled up by a Parliamentary panel for failing to deliver on as many as 40 assurances,...
FDA updates draft guidance on premarket safety notifications for dietary supplement industry savita thakur thakur15 Aug 2016 9:05 AM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a revised draft guidance to improve dietary supplement companies’ new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket...
Court rejects Elder Pharma officials anticipatory bail in bribe case savita thakur thakur13 Aug 2016 4:36 PM ISTNew Delhi : A court here rejected the anticipatory bail plea of chief operating officer of Elder Pharmaceuticals Anuj Saxena and said that “his...
Pharmexcil swings into action to contain drop in pharma exports savita thakur thakur13 Aug 2016 9:35 AM ISTHyderabad : Pharma exports in the first quarter of fiscal 2016-17 have come down by 4-5 percent, causing concern among Pharmaceutical Export Promotion...
