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Saturday, September 6, 2025
TopicDrug trials

Topic: drug trials

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.

Trial in India finds 2-drug combinations 5 times more effective than single pill in controlling hypertension

Amlodipine & perindopril, amlodipine & indapamide, and perindopril & indapamide achieved blood pressure control in 70 percent of patients to less than 140/90 mm Hg in six months.

Cancer ‘disappears’, every patient in remission — New York drug trial shows astonishing results

Fourteen patients with rectal cancer carrying a specific genetic mutation were rid of the disease using immunotherapy, without need for chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.

Pharma firms and diagnostics developers need to unite. They are catalysts for saving lives

Studies of drugs like remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine were underpowered and small, and the results were conflicting and, in many cases, inconclusive.

AstraZeneca may have used outdated data in vaccine trial, say US health officials

The Data and Safety Monitoring Board late Monday said that it was concerned AstraZeneca may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data.

Brazil trial shows Sinovac vaccine above 50% effective, but researchers delay full results

Sinovac is betting on a successful vaccine to inoculate more people around the world, especially in developing countries that will have limited access to the Pfizer and Moderna shots.

New antibody therapy may lower Covid hospitalisations, Eli Lilly says

Interim results from Lilly and AbCellera’s treatment trial found a 1.7% hospitalisation rate compared with a 6% rate among people on a placebo, a 72% reduction in risk and no deaths.

Pune’s Serum Institute set to start human trials of Oxford Covid vaccine, gets regulator nod

DCGI decision to allow human trials on 1,600 participants in India is based on data submitted by SII on first two phases of Oxford University trials.

UK company Synairgen declares clinical trial of protein treatment for Covid as successful

Synairgen said its SNG001 formulation greatly reduced the number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients, who progressed from requiring oxygen to requiring ventilation.

Why there is a big debate over accuracy and results of Covid anti-body tests

The anti-body test is crucial to understanding Covid-19 & the virus that causes it. It can tell how many people potentially have some level of immunity.

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

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.