Lucknow's Additional DCP Chiranjeev Sinha became a local celebrity of sorts after he heeded to an SOS call by a local, Mushtaq Ahmed, who had called up the helpline number to demand a blood pressure medicine at his doorstep
IndiGo on Wednesday said that it has offered Union Civil Aviation Ministry its "resources, aircraft and crew" to transport medicine, equipment and relief material from one part of the country to another.
People maintain distance while standing in queue outside medical store in Mumbai's Bandra
Pharmaceutical company Cipla and CISR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) have joined hands to develop a drug that can fight viral diseases including coronavirus. IICT has taken up the task to develop active pharma ingredients (APIs) for the coronavirus medicine.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on March 15 attended a video conference of all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries amid Coronavirus scare.
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.
Amid coronavirus outbreak, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed that there is no such report of shortage of medicines, masks in hospitals in India.
In India, the government has historically relied on price controls to regulate the prices of pharmaceutical drugs through the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) and Drug (Prices Control) Order, said the Survey.
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.
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.
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.
Brazilian health authorities have approved regulations for the registration and sale of marijuana-based drugs in pharmacies.
'Yaba', the Thai word for "crazy medicine," is a tablet form of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant and caffeine. The 'Yaba' tablet seizure was almost double than that of the previous year, BSF has said.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India's report for the year ending March 2018, tabled in the special session to mark Constitution Day, also said audit collection of samples and laboratory analysis of medicines in Ambala, Kurukshetra and Panchkula districts brought out that out of a total of 1,846 licensee units, samples were drawn from only 314 units and 1,532 units remained unchecked.
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
To date, Dr. Reddy's has not received any reports of adverse events related to the recall of Dr. Reddy's Ranitidine products. The recall includes all quantities in the US that are within expiry," the company said in a statement.
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