Topic: Drugs
Next 3 months will see a flood of new data on Covid vaccines and treatments
The third quarter will see an increased focus on drug developers like Pfizer and BioNTech, that have begun showing promising results with their vaccine trials.
Amsterdam to clean up sex-and-drugs tourism in post-virus reboot
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has laid out a plan that strikes a better balance between visitors and locals in its city center.
These are the 4 pieces of good news on coronavirus this week
Long before Covid-19, scientists at University of North Carolina & Gilead began developing Remdesivir in anticipation of a new coronavirus epidemic.
India could avert medicine shortage as bulk drugs start arriving from coronavirus-hit China
While major supply has started arriving through sea, some cargoes 'airlifted' by the government on behalf of pharma companies have also started coming in.
How bhang became such an integral part of Holi
The festival of colours has long been associated with getting high. What's the connection?
Modi govt restricts exports of common drugs on fear of coronavirus shortages
The drugs include over-the-counter painkiller and fever reducer paracetamol and finished pills that include it.
Govt to fly raw material from coronavirus-hit China for Cipla as shortage fears continue
There are fears that supply of essential medicines — including for HIV & cancer — may dwindle if supply chains in coronavirus-hit China don’t normalise soon.
What are APIs and how they threaten India’s status of a ‘pharmacy to the world’
Despite being a leading supplier of medicines to several countries, India is highly dependent on China for raw materials even to produce medicines as basic as Crocin.
Prices of Paracetamol, other bulk drugs jump as coronavirus crisis stokes fear of shortage
The price rise won't affect consumers since pharmaceutical companies are not allowed to push up prices of key drugs by more than 10% per year.
Two Chinese drones used to ‘smuggle drugs’ to Pakistan seized, Army Naik arrested
Police say drones were being launched from the Indian side to fly into Pakistan to pick up payloads of narcotics. No drugs have been recovered yet from those arrested.
Indians find the perfect villain in Rhea Chakraborty. It says more about India than her
Since the FIR against Chakraborty, it is as if the entire country has collectively turned into a giant investigating agency-cum-court.
India isn’t facing up to the true financial cost of Covid
Truth is currently as scarce as capital in India. The govt doesn’t have the appetite for large-scale socialisation of private losses, lest the opposition accuse PM Modi of cronyism.
Defence
Army begins process to recruit second batch of 100 women soldiers for military police
Army intends to induct 1,700 women recruits in the military police by 2036, increasing the percentage of women in the cadre to 20 over 17 years.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.