Drug Trials

Slow approvals put India's drug trials industry at risk

Slower government approval for testing new medicines is threatening India's aspirations to be a fast-growing, low-cost hub for clinical trials, and has prompted some drugs firms to shift operations elsewhere, adding to their costs. ...  

Drug trials: SC issues notices to Centre, states

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has hauled up the Centre on clinical drug trials in the country. Issuing notices to all state governments on Monday, the apex court asked them if they were being kept in the loop by the government on the clinical trials. The court further sought details from the Centre on four aspects of the trials. These included: The number of clinical trials that have taken place...  

SC issues notice to Centre on illegal drug trials

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on conducting an independent inquiry into alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical companies in various states. A bench of justices RM Lodha and HL Gokhale issued a notice to the Centre as also to the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India seeking their replies on a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the country is...  

Bhopal: Drug trials conducted on gas victims

Bhopal: Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has been carrying out clinical trials on gas victims. CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show that at least 80 per cent of the patients on whom trials were conducted, were victims of the gas tragedy. What was suspected and alleged so far is confirmed now. The multi-specialty hospital set up for gas victims conducted unethical drug trials on 279 patients of whom 215...  

AP: students made guinea pigs for drug trials

Vishakapatnam: In what could be yet another case of unethical drug trials, two engineering students of Vishakapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh have accused a drug research company of luring them as volunteers on the pretext of an educational project and a payment of Rs 6,000. The duo allege they were not informed of the process and were forced to stay at the laboratory of Actimus Biosciences, till blood samples were...  

Drug trials, at whose cost?

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Five women hospitalised in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, after "volunteering" for a drug trial. Now that's a story that we know will make headlines ...

Bhopal gas victims guinea pigs for drug trials

New Delhi: Bhopal gas victims allege that they are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug trials without being informed. An RTI has revealed that Bhopal Memorial Hospital has pocketed over Rs 1 crore by allowing pharma companies to conduct clinical trials on disaster victims. Shankar Lal was 33 when the Bhopal Union Carbide leak of 1984 happened. Lal and his pregnant wife Laxmi survived but not their child...  

Man dies of drug trial for laborotory in Hyderabad

Surinder as part of the drug trials took the first dose of a trial drug on Nov 24. ...