Ranitidine still sold as popular heartburn medicine in India despite being banned or suspended in US, Europe & Australia. It was dropped from essential medicines list last year.
This means all candidates who appeared for 2023 NEET PG exam will be eligible for admission. Move aimed at filling seats as many go vacant each year, says govt official.
It also lists bodies opposed to professional conduct norms for doctors & adds that there is no provision in 2019 act giving NMC & state medical councils powers of civil court.
Rule part of Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2023. Opponents include Indian Medical Association, but some see it as a move in the right direction.
Delhi High Court accepted pharma companies’ argument that most banned drugs had been in use for over 30 years and said health ministry had not specified reasons behind ban issued in June.
Committee on Empowerment of Women asks tribal and health ministries how policies on maternal health for tribal areas have been developed without a separate database.
The health ministry has stepped up scrutiny of drugmakers in recent months after some cough syrups made in the country were linked to the deaths of at least 95 children overseas.
Union health ministry says preliminary inquiry into 35 complaints against Indian Institute of Population Sciences’ K.S. James has found 11 to be true. ‘Detailed probe underway’.
Pholcodine is used to treat dry cough. WHO had flagged risk of anaphylactic reactions in those who took remedies containing Pholcodine at least 12 months prior to surgery.
Sri Lanka had last month alleged that a steroid-based eyedrop made by Gujarat-based Indiana Ophthalmics had led to adverse events, including vision loss, in over 30 patients.
Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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