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Friday, September 26, 2025
TopicDrug trial

Topic: Drug trial

Health ministry to amend New Drugs & Clinical Trials Rules to promote ease of doing business

Amendments to the rules, framed in 2019, aims to simplify requirements & procedures for obtaining test licences & submitting applications related to bioavailability/bioequivalence studies.

Experimental drug promising to bring down bad cholesterol by up to 69% completes early stage trial

Set to enter larger trial across 5 countries, it works by permanently turning off gene that causes high bad cholesterol levels. Commonly used drugs work by inhibiting cholesterol-causing enzyme.

Govt notifies rule for rapid launch of breakthrough drugs in India, bypassing local clinical trials

In an executive order, the DGCI has specified a list of countries under rule 101 of New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019. List includes US, UK & EU, among others.

US drug regulator halts Sun Pharma trials on dermatological drug

Sun Pharma, India's largest drugmaker by revenue, acquired deuruxolitinib when it bought US-based Concert Pharmaceuticals for $576 million earlier this year.

HCQ farce has tragic consequences as precious time studying treatments has been lost

The danger now is that if a severe flare-up in Covid infections were to strike, we would still lack clear evidence of any existing, cheap treatment.

Roche partners with Gilead to conduct two-drug combination trial for Covid treatment

The study will pair Roche’s immune suppressor Actemra along with Gilead’s antiviral remdesivir, the only drug to have shown promise in treating the coronavirus.

2 arthritis drugs show varying benefits, dash hopes of helping broad group of Covid patients

Unlike anti-virals, arthritis drugs won’t attack the virus directly, but instead are thought to have an effect on the immune system’s response to the pathogen.

UK to start human trials of coronavirus vaccine tomorrow

The vaccine trials will be of a drug developed at Oxford University and UK govt will give 20 million pounds to support the research.

‘I knocked on hell’s door’ – the horror story of one coronavirus survivor in Wuhan

Ye's account is a testimonial to the fact that diagnosis has emerged as one of the major stumbling blocks in getting the virus under control in Hubei.

The search to cure Alzheimer’s leads to a crash and raises more questions

There’s no approved product that can slow or stop the ailment, and about 200 drugs have failed.

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Govt inks deal with HAL for 97 new Tejas Mk1A; previous order’s deliveries likely to begin next yr

There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.