Tag: drugs

Mumbai: The Centre is considering a proposal for a temporary 10-15% increase in the prices of select essential medicines to ease cost pressures faced by drugmakers, top industry executives ...

The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), a health ministry body that sets quality and safety standards for drugs, has been tasked with compiling a report of adverse events associated with ...

New Delhi: The government is evaluating if it needs to invoke the Essential Commodities Act to regulate prices of bulk drugs or active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and curb hoarding ...

By: Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, FAAPAfter years of talking with teens and their parents about substance use, here's the single most important thing I've learned: Connection matters ...

Medicine prices in India may rise sharply amid a 30% surge in the cost of key raw materials or active pharma ingredients in the last fortnight primarily due to ...

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the reappointment of Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi as Drugs Controller (India) at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The decision ...

India may not become a true innovation hub in five years, but could get there over the next decade or more. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters Key Points 'Pharma must move quickly ...

New Delhi: India's over-the-counter-drug market is expected to reach Rs 98,000 crore by 2030, according to a new report. An EY report estimated that India's OTC market, valued around ...

For more than half a century, drugs known as beta blockers have been a mainstay for managing heart disease, especially for heart attack survivors. But doctors are now reconsidering ...

New Delhi: In a bid to accelerate manufacturing of a new drug or investigational drug, the government has reduced the time taken to review such applications by half.To make ...