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Wednesday, September 3, 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

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.