All India Ophthalmological Society has set up expert group to review PresVu & develop guidelines on side-effects, keeping in mind 'potential inappropriate marketing, indiscriminate use'.
A total of 344 such medicines were banned in 2018, and another 156, used for common conditions such as fever, allergies, hypertension, colds etc, earlier this month.
Tirzepatide is a type 2 diabetes and obesity drug sold by US firm Eli Lilly under the brand names Mounjaro and Zepbound. It may take around 6 months for it to be launched in India.
Doctors & experts are divided on the move's efficacy. Some believe this could help ensure responsible use, while others feel it could reduce access for those benefiting from it.
CDSCO says Centre’s programme to identify such risks has been in place since 2015, but till now only hospitals designated as monitoring centres would report such events on voluntary basis.
India’s exports of pharmaceuticals during 2022-23 was valued at $25.4 billion with a growth of almost 3.25 percent over the previous financial year, according to Pharmexcil.
Following December notice prohibiting combination of chlorpheniramine maleate & phenylephrine hydrochloride, CDSCO has ‘decided to rope in paediatricians to review other permitted FDCs’.
Under revised good manufacturing practices (GMP) norms, pharma companies will be required to assume onus for quality of drugs to ensure they do not place patients at risk.
Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India seeks nod for drugs to be marketed at same time as US, Europe. But regulator rarely permits a drug launch without local clinical trials.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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