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Saturday, October 25, 2025
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Topic: Novartis

India approves Zolgensma, one of world’s costliest drugs. Why it’s sparked hope, but also concern

Zolgensma is the only drug that promises a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, provided it is administered to affected children before the symptoms appear.

In Delhi hospitals, thalassemia patients suffer as life-saving Desferal scarce, set to become 50% costlier

Doctors & patients confirm acute shortage of the drug in hospitals, even as manufacturer Novartis maintains there is no shortage in supply.

2 jabs a year to keep bad cholesterol at bay — breakthrough treatment to launch in India this month

Novartis India, the company that has the import and marketing permission for Inclisiran, refused to divulge the price of the drug in India, but market sources say it is going to be Rs 1.2 lakh per jab.

Novartis, Eli Lilly oppose compulsory licences for breast cancer drugs, say sales up despite price

Pharma giants were responding to petition in Kerala HC seeking compulsory licences for their HER2-negative breast cancer drugs, which would allow cheaper, generic versions to be made.

It’ll take more than vaccines to fight Covid, Novartis CEO Narasimhan says

Significant supplies of highly effective vaccines won’t be available until the end of 2021 & even once we have one, it probably won’t protect everyone, Narasimhan said.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.