Apr 21,2024 With a view to widen the market and foster adequate protection from healthcare expenses, insurance regulator IRDAI has removed the age limit of 65 years for individuals buying health insurance policies. This marks a significant departure from the...

Apr 21,2024 Vaccines mark one of the most significant milestones in public health, having prevented morbidity and mortality for millions yearly. Traditionally, vaccine technology has focussed on live attenuated or inactivated, but nanotechnology has revolutionised the development in this field....

Apr 24,2024 Mumbai: Lupin Limited announced that it has received the Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) from the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) for its Aurangabad manufacturing facility. The inspection was conducted from March 6–15, 2024. The US...

Apr 18,2024 The Drugs Controller General (India) (DCGI) has informed all state drug regulators that the Central regulatory authority has not approved manufacturing and marketing of antibiotic combination of meropenem 1 mg and EDTA for injection and it is against...

Apr 25,2024 Venezuela: Some of the 10 women and teenage girls who recently came to a medical clinic in eastern Venezuela for free contraceptives fidgeted a bit when a community health worker taught them how to use an IUD, condoms...

Apr 25,2024 New Delhi: A group of genes could be common to both depression and heart disease, a finding that researchers said could explain why having one of them increases risk of developing the other. The “puzzling” link between the...

Apr 26,2024 Serving as a valuable opportunity to acknowledge the indispensable role of Intellectual Property (IP) in driving innovation and a spirit of scientific enquiry in the pharmaceutical sector, the World Intellectual Property Day is an occasion to commemorate the...

Apr 26,2024 Geneva: Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that most of those to benefit were infants. That is the equivalent of six lives...

Apr 25,2024 New Delhi: Humanity’s oldest and deadliest vector-borne disease, malaria has continued to be a silent killer. Although there has been continuous impressive gains in reduction of the disease burden in the country, the emerging and re-emerging diseases transmitted...

Apr 19,2024 New Delhi: The country’s drug regulator has released draft guidelines on good distribution practices to curb the introduction of spurious, adulterated and sub-standard pharmaceutical products in the market. The draft guidance document issued by the Central Drugs Standard...