NEW DELHI, Oct. 17 -- The Centre has capped trade margins at 30% for 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, seeking to curb markups of up to 700% in some cases and reduce retail prices by as much as 70%... Read More
NEW DELHI, Oct. 17 -- India's food safety regulator has proposed banning the addition of sucrose and fructose in infant nutrition products intended for babies up to six months old, tightening rules on... Read More
NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 -- India plans to overhaul its drug patent rules to stop pharmaceutical companies from evergreening patents through minor modifications and artificially extend market monopolies. N... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- India's Department of Pharmaceuticals has invited applications for the second round of its Promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharma & MedTech (PRIP) scheme, offering startu... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- India's cancer patients could see the prices of many medicines fall by as much as 70% if the government's proposed cap on trade margins across non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs tak... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- New Delhi: The Centre has directed all states and Union territories (UTs) to mandate the prominent display of rates charged for services and facilities at clinical establishments... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- India has put its national laboratory network on alert and reviewed stocks of essential antibiotics, including tetracyclines used to treat plague, following reports of a laborato... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- India plans to expedite the development and commercial manufacturing of an oral nanodrug aimed at treating high prevalence of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, a severe form of jaundi... Read More
NEW DELHI, Oct. 9 -- India has overhauled its medical device safety-monitoring framework, bringing software glitches, cybersecurity risks and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies into rou... Read More
NEW DELHI, Oct. 9 -- The health ministry has moved to plug a major regulatory loophole in the pharmaceutical supply chain by proposing stringent curbs on advertisements of prescription drugs by retail... Read More