New Delhi: A new study by UK-based medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of anti-malarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 anti-malarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake. Researchers analysed data based on 1400 drug samples in five classes from seven Southeast Asian countries to reach to this...
10:11 AM, May 23, 2012
Mumbai: Two disc jockeys who played music at the rave party in suburban Juhu hotel were on Tuesday called to the police station for the second consecutive day for probe into the matter even as the investigators are trying to decode the language used in the invitation, police said. "DJ brothers Romeo and Deepesh Sharma of Designer Hippies were today called to the station for the second day and their...
03:01 PM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: In yet another blow to IPL's image, cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell were found attending a party busted by the Mumbai police. Police claimed illegal drugs were recovered from the party venue at a Juhu hotel. The players though deny any involvement. Both Parnell of South Africa and Rahul, who play for Pune Warriors, claimed innocence with the Indian leg spinner saying he will quit cricket if his...
08:38 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at a hotel in Juhu on Sunday night. At least 100 people including 38 women, mostly foreign nationals, were detained. The police have also arrested the party organiser, Vishesh Vijay Handa, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Two international cricketers, Rahul Sharma of India and Wayne Parnell of South Africa, who play in the IPL for Pune...
11:30 AM, May 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at a hotel in Juhu on Sunday night. At least 100 people including 38 women, mostly foreign nationals, were detained. The police have also arrested the party organiser, Vishesh Vijay Handa, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Two international cricketers, Rahul Sharma of India and Wayne Parnell of South Africa, who play in the IPL for Pune Warriors...
07:32 AM, May 21, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Sunday evening bust an alleged rave party at Oakwood Hotel in Juhu. The police claim to have recovered cocaine from the party. Over 80 people, including foreign nationals, have been detained and medical reports are awaited. The police sources said few IPL players may have been involved in the rave party as well. The police said only after the test reports they will be able to...
10:44 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi's Rekha Jhingan has been fighting the menace of drug abuse for the past 20 years after her own athlete husband took to drugs in 1991 and she didn't have many options then to help him get rid of the habit. Rekha Jhingan's day begins in the national capital's Hanuman Mandir. While many go there to seek divine intervention, she goes there to lend a friendly hand to...
09:18 AM, May 16, 2012
A parliamentary panel says some doctors are colluding with big pharmaceutical companies to sell unsafe drugs to the Indian consumers. ...
11:58 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
Nata Menabde Age: 52 Designation: WHO Representative to India Education: MSc in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmacology Career: Nearly 20 years at WHO; was deputy regional director for Europe before coming to India in 2010 Interests: Plays the piano and guitar. Likes classical music, jazz, water sports, history and Russian literature Q. What are the top three challenges in healthcare in India? Communicable diseases remain part of the unfinished agenda for...
02:17 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The government announced an inquiry on Friday into the functioning of the main drug regulator, just days after a parliamentary report exposed dysfunction within the agency and serious irregularities in the drug approval process. The government said in a statement that it had appointed three experts to look at the scientific basis of approving new drugs without clinical trials and recommend ways of improving the procedures of the...
02:13 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pointing to a collusive nexus between drug manufacturers, officials of Drugs Control Organisation and medical experts in granting approvals to new drugs, a Parliamentary Panel said drugs banned, discarded or withdrawn in developed countries are in circulation in India. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare also pointed to serious lapses and irregularities on the approvals of new drugs and pointed out that 33 such drugs...
01:23 AM, May 10, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Four months after Mumbai's premier Hinduja hospital reported 12 cases of "Totally Drug Resistant TB", the hospital has reported 2 new cases. The bad news is that the state health department remains in denial. Nearly 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day, and the biggest threat at this point is the Totally Drug Resistant TB - incurable, and highly contagious. A fifth of the total TB deaths in the...
02:03 PM, Apr 30, 2012
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