EDITORS EMULSION 17th April 2019

Warm Greetings!

Since antibiotics have contributed significantly to a broad rise in life expectancy, and are used for everything from preventing infections during surgeries to protecting cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, the weakening defences will leave a ripple effect on the entire healthcare chain. While the problem is global, it is nowhere as stark as in India—where poor public health infrastructure, a high burden of disease, and cheap, unregulated sales of antibiotics has created ideal conditions for a rapid rise in resistant infections.

Read PSM India Capsules to know how Indians are getting hooked onto Antibiotics and how it’s overuse can kill.

While the government may ban 150 combination drugs, it may cap export of anti-rabies vaccine; while the High Court refuses to hear plea on generic drugs, the govt adds organ preservative solutions to drugs; read these and more under Drug Laws And Policy Injections.

An Indo-Swiss healthcare initiative has highlighted the impact of technologies and creating a path towards digital healthcare. During the Digital Health Week in 2019, India and Switzerland are taking a closer collaboration and are positioned adequately to take many of its efforts through a week long market exploration programme curated by Swissnex, a Switzerland-government-promoted organisation. Go through the article on this and misleading health ads, regulatory issues hitting Dettol and Savlon, restriction of Tramadol sale, and more in Pharma injections and Drug Dopes of this issue of The Prescription.

We constantly endeavour not only to collate important information from the health and medicine world but also to create a connect with consumers all over. We welcome articles and write ups from our readers and are glad to feature them under the section titled Subscriber’s Symptoms. This issue features a contribution by Ms Shanaya Singhal from Indore on IIT Guwahati’s Bone Graft Aiding Extensive Bone Formation. Mark your calendar with the upcoming events listed in our newsletter and remember to take your laughter dose in the end.

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Pooja Khaitan

Editor-in-Chief,

The Prescription