India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The actions undertaken by the Ministry consequent to the recommendations of 72nd Report of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on HPV vaccine trials were taken into cognizance by the Committee as reflected in its 81st Report. Government has undertaken many health research regulatory reforms in the last decade, some major ones are mentioned below:
1. New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules (NDCTR), 2019 introduced a comprehensive regulatory framework and streamlined approval processes for clinical trials and new drugs. The Rules also made it mandatory to register the Ethics Committees reviewing biomedical research with Department o...