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  Eli Lilly India gets nod for emergency use of antibody drugs combination for COVID-19

  Business | June 01, 2021 14:30 IST

  Eli Lilly and Company India on Tuesday said it has received permission for emergency use of its antibody drugs combination used for treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19, in the country.

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  Shop sealed for selling Remdesivir at higher price than MRP in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur

  India | April 12, 2021 12:59 IST

  Jabalpur administration sealed the medical shop on Sunday night after receiving a complaint against it. 

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  Coimbatore engineering students develop robot for contactless care of COVID patients

  News | November 25, 2020 7:56 IST

  Amid COVID-19, when the best medicine is social distancing to reduce contamination, a proactive team of six undergraduate Mechatronics engineering students have developed a prototype called A Doctor To Be (ADTB).

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  Remdac: At ₹ 2800, Zydus Cadilla launches India's cheapest coronavirus medicine Remdesivir

  Good News | August 13, 2020 11:04 IST

  Cadila Health's Zydus Cadila on Thursday launched the cheapest generic version of Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug in India, to treat COVID-19. Called as Remdac (Remdesivir), the drug has been launched following reports of shortages at drugs at various hospitals.

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  Eligible elderly be paid pension regularly, states to provide them medicines, masks & sanitisers: SC

  India | August 04, 2020 20:34 IST

  The Supreme Court Tuesday directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitizers, and other essential goods in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Enough medicine stock available: All India Chemists and Druggists Association

  Business | May 03, 2020 15:56 IST

  There is sufficient stock of medicines in the country and people should not indulge in panic buying amid the coronavirus outbreak, said All IndiaChemists and Druggists Association president Jagannath Shinde on Sunday.

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  Low-dose aspirin mitigates liver cancer risk: Study

  Lifestyle | March 14, 2020 12:24 IST

  Among adults at high risk of liver cancer, those who took low-dose aspirin were less likely to develop the disease or to die from liver-related causes.

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  New method ramps up protein production by thousandfold

  Science | December 20, 2019 11:55 IST

  Researchers have discovered a method to supercharge protein production up to a thousandfold, an advance that may drive down costs of protein-based drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics. Proteins are made of long chains of building block molecules called amino acids, and the process of producing them for medical or commercial applications can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming.Protein-based medicines such as insulin are synthesised by turning engineered bacteria into tiny protein-making factories, the scientists, including Indian-origin researcher Manasvi Verma from Washington University in the US, said.

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  Two-year-old girl dies after given wrong medicine by medical store

  Crime | December 14, 2019 6:47 IST

  A two-year-old girl died after she was allegedly given a wrong medicine by a medical store in Shahdara's GTB Enclave area, police said on Friday.

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  Drug controller body (DGCI) bans online sale of medicines

  India | December 04, 2019 17:57 IST

  Country's drugs regulator has asked all states and Union Territories to prohibit sale of drugs by online pharmacies as per the Delhi High Court order, a senior health ministry official said on Wednesday. The court while hearing a PIL by Zaheer Ahmed in December 2018 had ordered the ban on sale of illegal or unlicensed online sale of medicines till the government drafts rules to regulate e-pharmacies.

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  Brazil approves sale of marijuana-based medicines

  World | December 04, 2019 10:53 IST

  Brazilian health authorities have approved regulations for the registration and sale of marijuana-based drugs in pharmacies. 

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  With new visa norms, practising medicine in UK to become simpler for doctors: British Council

  India | November 02, 2019 16:53 IST

  Earlier the candidates had to clear two separate tests for registering with relevant healthcare regulator in the UK and for immigration purposes. The British Council conducts the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam for non-native English language speakers

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  Explained: How research by Nobel winners for medicine would impact all

  Education | October 07, 2019 20:43 IST

  Dr Gregg Semenza, a top researcher at Johns Hopkins University, William G. Kaelin, Jr and Peter J. Ratcliffe's research gives an insight into how genes respond to varying levels of oxygen.

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  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded jointly to 3

  World | October 07, 2019 19:27 IST

  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

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  GSK Pharma recalls stomach ulcer tablets, suspends sales, distribution

  Business | September 25, 2019 22:38 IST

  GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd on Wednesday announced recall of ranitidine hydrochloride tablets produced in India using API sourced from Saraca Laboratories Ltd following detection of genotoxic nitrosamine NDMA by authorities.

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  No shortage of medicines in Jammu and Kashmir: Government

  India | August 26, 2019 23:23 IST

  The supplied medicines include antibiotics, anti-diabetic, proton pump inhibitors, anti-hypertensives, antacids, NSAIDs, anti-cancer drugs, cardiovascular drugs, anti-tuberculars, anti-depressants, psychotropics and other life-saving drugs.

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  Medicines in stock for 15-20 days in Jammu & Kashmir: Administration

  India | August 25, 2019 13:02 IST

  The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday announced that all 376 notified as well as 62 essential or life saving medicines are available in stock in the Union Territory for 15-20 days.

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  'No trade with India' stunt backfires, Pakistan faces shortage of life-saving medicines

  World | August 19, 2019 0:28 IST

  In the wake of Article 370 abrogation in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan suspended trade with India. As a result, the Islamabad is facing crisis of medicinal drugs and other crucial goods, which were earlier New Delhi used to export it to its neighbouring nation.

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  Italy flies 45 tonnes of medicines, essential aid to Venezuela

  World | July 31, 2019 8:48 IST

  The Italian government flight left for Caracas from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, the statement said, adding Deputy Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re was present on the occasion. 

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  15 Delhi govt hospitals to be upgraded; LNJP facility to get 22-storey mother-child-medicine block

  India | June 23, 2019 17:27 IST

  "We are seeking to boost healthcare facilities in the national capital. And, as part of a project, 15 Delhi government hospitals are to be upgraded, a top official in the Delhi health department told PTI.