EDITORS EMULSION 1st May 2018

Summer Greetings!

The internet brings many advantages, not least in being able to acquire medicines with relative ease. But there are drawbacks, especially for the unwary. Patients may encounter problems when using the internet to address their healthcare needs.

With advances in the field of technology, more and more people have started relying on the internet for their day-to-day activities. While it is always good to gain more knowledge through the internet, patients and doctors need to be aware of the dark side of the web. As the internet marketplace grows, the number of online pharmacies has increased exponentially.

When stuck with illness or a medical problem, some individuals opt for prescription drugs online as a means of quick access to the medications they think they require rather than go to the effort of seeing a GP and having to endure long waiting lists. Often, the risks associated with buying drugs online are not fully known to either the purchaser or even sometimes the health professionals, who may be asked about such sites.

Read PSM India capsules to know more about the draft proposal being put in place to overcome such flaws within the system of online pharmacies and ensure that patients are able to purchase genuine medicines online.

Our Drug laws and policy injections carries interesting news on an intelligence cell comprising officials from the state and central drug authorities being constituted by the Drug Control Administration, a

high-level task force to formulate a roadmap for reviving the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) sector amid growing concerns over an overwhelming dependence on drug imports from China, and a blockchain to bust fake drugs in India.

While our Pharma injections highlights raids on Pharma firms, probe into the Malpani Hospital issue, licenses to KAPL, and Pharma majors showing keen interest to develop bulk drugs park in Nagpur; our Drug dopes section announces progress in the development of a bio-artificial pancreas that can be implanted in diabetics to help manage the disease. Though it is still years from being used on humans, its continued development holds hope for diabetics.

After a long period of 30 years, a newly elected state pharmacy council has been constituted in the state of Assam, 53 doctors under scanner for fake PG certificates, quacks practicing medicine, illegal e-sale of abortion pills traced to Delhi and IIT Roorkee developing a potent molecule to treat Chikungunya hold pitch under National Injections in this newsletter.

We constantly endeavour not only to reach you 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 touches on the challenges and opportunities of blood screening.

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Stay Healthy. Stay Protected.

Pooja Khaitan

Editor-in-Chief,

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