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With the aim of reducing India’s dependence on imported medical devices by promoting manufacture and use of local ones, the government is set to form a Medical Devices Development Council that would spearhead Policy initiatives for the same. Read about this and how commonly used medical devices like nebulizers, blood pressure monitors, digital thermometers and glucometers have been notified as drugs under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act in Drug Laws and Policy Injections.
While India’s first heart valve technology gets launched for patients who are at high risk or unwilling to undergo open heart valve replacement surgery, we still have diagnostic labs buying used medicines. Catch up on this and more such interesting articles in our Pharma Injections while drugs being recalled, not approved, and drug busts all make up our Drug Dopes section.
The Global Injections of this issue holds some informative research articles on how blood test may diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, new way of killing malaria in the liver and fish oil protecting high-risk patients against heart attacks.
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"The world has decided that by 2030, TB will be eradicated. We in India decided why wait for 2030. That is why we have made a programme to eradicate it five years ahead of the global deadline.”
Shri Narendra Modi
Hon’ble Prime Minister
“Let's create competition but a healthy one”, Prof. Bejon Misra
A strong IP protection system encompassing patents and data protection provides incentives that spur R&D and serves consumers by delivering new medicines.
Biopharmaceutical research companies around the world are committed to building a dynamic research ecosystem to develop and deliver safe and effective new medicines. It is time for India to leverage on this global research enterprise and embrace the new drugs which help tackle the unmet medical needs.
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of a healthcare facility by definition involves a variety of factors such as thermal (temperature and relative humidity) conditions, presence of chemical components & contaminants as well the outdoor air quality. IAQ is vital in relation to environment inside hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities.
EMA Publishes Revised Guideline To Assess Risk Of Human Medicines For Environment
United Kingdom, 3 Dec 2018: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a revision of its guideline on the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of human medicines for a six-month public consultation. Stakeholders are invited to send their comments by 30 June 2019 to era_dg@ema.europa.eu using the Microsoft Office document template provided.
Novel Blood Test May Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease
Boston, 10 Dec 2018: Scientists have developed a blood test that can accurately diagnose or even predict Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear. Currently the only way to definitively diagnose Alzheimer's disease in life is through brain scans and tests of cerebrospinal fluid that must be collected via lumbar puncture.
Researchers Explore New Way Of Killing Malaria In The Liver
San Diego, 6 Dec 2018: Most malaria drugs are designed to reduce symptoms after infection. They work by blocking replication of the disease-causing parasites in human blood, but they don’t prevent infection or transmission via mosquitoes. What’s worse, the malaria parasite is developing resistance to existing drugs.
Fish Oil Drug May Protect High-Risk Patients Against Heart Attacks
England, 10 Nov 2018: Cholesterol-lowering drugs may one day gain a sidekick in the battle against heart disease. Taking a potent drug derived from fish oil along with a statin lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke in some high-risk people, researchers report.
Man Who Made And Sold Nearly One Million Counterfeit Xanax Pills Sentenced
December 10, 2018: The Baltimore Sun reported that a Maryland man received a 57-month federal prison sentence for selling counterfeit Xanax pills. Starting in 2013, Ryan Farace used the moniker of “Xanaxman” on the online markets where he sold his fake pills. By the time law enforcement arrested him in June 2017, he had sold nearly 1 million counterfeit pills. Farace’s co-conspirator, Robert Swain, is set to be sentenced in January 2019.
Side Stepping FDA Safeguards To Buy Medicine In Mexico Isn’t Safe, Former DEA Agents Warn
December 10, 2018: A Utah insurance company has made headlines by giving its public sector enrollees – approximately 160,000 state residents – travel money and cash to go to Tijuana, Mexico, where they can buy prescription drugs cheaper than they can get them in the United States. As retired DEA agents who worked extensively in Latin America on illicit drug trafficking issues for more than 30 years, we can’t honestly think of a worse idea.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. What is Drug Fever?
Ans: Drug fever is a common condition that is frequently misdiagnosed. It may be defined as a disorder characterized by fever coinciding with administration of a drug and disappearing after the discontinuation of the drug, when no other cause for the fever is evident after a careful physical examination and laboratory investigation. Drug-induced fever is a symptom of an adverse drug reaction wherein the administration of drugs intended to help a patient causes a hypermetabolic state resulting in fever. The drug may interfere with heat dissipation peripherally, increase the rate of metabolism, evoke a cellular or humoral immune response, mimic endogenous pyrogen, or damage tissues. Read More>>>
Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics
Article contributed by Shri Prafull D Sheth, New Delhi
NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana — to substitute doctor’s prescription with a generic brand.
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