EDITORS EMULSION 17th Dec 2018

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. 

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 Mr.Prafull D Sheth from New Delhi on how Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics. 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