New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on Tuesday seeking a ban on Ranbaxy drugs. The petitioner cited the pharma giant's case in the US - where Ranbaxy USA admitted to selling substandard and adulterated drugs.
The pharma giant was asked to pay a fine of 500 million dollars. Ranbaxy has been facing the heat off late - with a few hospitals banning its drugs.
The PIL has also sought sealing of all Ranbaxy's manufacturing units in India, including those in Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh and Dewas in Madhya Pradesh. In his petition, the advocate has contended that making and selling adulterated drugs is a heinous crime and "amounts to committing murder" and a person who knowingly does it is liable to be prosecuted under the Indian Penal Code.
It also sought action against Indian drug regulator, Central Drug Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO), for permitting Ranbaxy to sell drugs in India, especially in the wake of the results of the USFDA probe against the company. ...
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08:49 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The central government has given more than Rs 500 crore to various states for bringing AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homeopathy) forms of medicine into the mainstream. During 2009-13, Rs 553 crore was given to states and union territories for mainstreaming AYUSH under the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM). This resulted in the establishment of new AYUSH facilities in 803 primary health centres, 113 community health centres,...
05:09 AM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: A Public-interest litigation (PIL) has been moved in the Supreme Court against Ranbaxy Pharma. The PIL is seeking prosecution of all Ranbaxy directors and sealing of its manufacturing units at Paonta Sahib and Devas. This was based on Ranbaxy USA's 500 million dollar settlement with the US for making and selling aulterated drugs for over four years. Earlier in May, Ranbaxy had pleaded guilty to felony charges. ...
09:22 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government has started the Aastha and Mamta scheme with a lot of fanfare claiming that it will ensure free treatment of several diseases. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said that that aim to provide treatment for all the residents of the state through the Aastha and Mamta scheme. But even Chauhan's constituency Budni lacks basic medical facilities to ensure proper healthcare. Budni is situated just 60 km...
02:50 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Mumbai: An unexpected discovery at a New York medical college reveals that Vitamin C can kill drug resistant forms of tuberculosis. This comes as a huge relief for India as the country grapples with the world's fifth highest TB deaths. The discovery has the potential to change the way tuberculosis, a deadly disease infecting 8.7 million people across the world, is treated. In laboratory studies, scientists at the Albert Einstein...
10:44 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Washington: Scientists have for the first time built a detailed molecular model of the complex structure of the inner protein shell of HIV, paving way for potential new treatments for the deadly virus. A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine described the 4-million-atom structure of the HIV's capsid, or protein shell. The findings, published in the journal Nature, could lead to new ways of...
12:49 PM, May 31, 2013
Srinagar: A shocking fake drug racket has been busted in Jammu and Kashmir. CNN-IBN has found that spurious medicines are being administered in place of life-saving drugs at various hospitals. Kashmir has been consuming drugs of clay and chalk literally over the past two years. Around a dozen life-saving drugs comprising lakhs of tablets meant for supplies to hospitals - including pediatric GB Pant where 500 neonates died last year...
08:50 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The patent battle between US pharmaceuticals major Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) and Indian firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals over the sale of diabetes drug Januvia comes up for hearing in the Delhi High Court on Thursday. Indian pharma company Glenmark recently came out with generic versions of Merck's type-2 diabetes drugs at a 30 per cent lower price, in alleged violation of Merck's intellectual property rights. Merck had introduced...
10:15 AM, May 23, 2013
London: A new wave of medicines that tap the power of the immune system to fight cancer could become the biggest drug class in history, with potential sales of $35 billion a year. The sales forecast by analysts at US bank Citigroup highlights the growing excitement surrounding so-called immunotherapy after positive results from clinical trials conducted by companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche Holding. "We believe this market will...
09:59 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Prices of 348 medicines, including life-saving drugs, will be cheaper soon by up to 80 per cent as the new Drug Price Control Order has come into effect. Industry experts said the implementation of the new drug policy will lead to slashing of prices of many anti-cancer and anti-infective drugs by 50-80 per cent. According to the website of Department of Pharmaceuticals, the government has notified that the...
08:00 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Generic drugmaker Ranbaxy has been fined $500 million by the US government after its subsidiary pleaded guilty to sale of adulterated drugs manufactured in India. It is the largest settlement by a generic medicine maker till date. It includes $150 million in payments for a criminal fine and forfeiture and $350 million in payments for civil claims. The adulterated drugs were made in Ranbaxy's plants in India and...
08:30 AM, May 14, 2013
London: Got a drinking problem? Pop this pill! A new once-a-day pill which could help problem drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they consume has been launched in the UK. Manufacturers claim that dependent drinkers who take the drug nalmefene and undergo counselling can cut their alcohol consumption levels by 61 per cent. The pill, also known as selincro, has been licensed for use by health officials in the UK...
04:25 PM, May 06, 2013
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs. "The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said...
06:14 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: All antibiotics, tuberculosis drugs and other habit-forming medicines may soon have a label, warning users against over the counter medication, according to the latest draft notification by the Health Ministry. According to Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), India records 70 thousand new multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases every year. India has already switched to using the second line drug Artemisinin for Malaria widely and nearly 5 per cent...
08:50 AM, Apr 04, 2013
FIFA medical chief Michel D'Hooghe says the abuse of anti-inflammatory medicine by football players is a bigger problem facing the sport than doping. ...
07:29 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Unhappy with the government's new drug pricing policy that will "reduce their profits" and "create hassles", 10,000 chemists across Delhi on Tuesday threatened to go on a strike March 15 if their demands were not met. ...
09:11 PM, Mar 05, 2013
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. ...
02:20 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Top Indian pharma players will continue to grow strongly at over 20 per cent in 2013, primarily led by exports to the US market, India Ratings said in its outlook for the sector. "We believe that top players of the sector will continue to grow strongly in 2013 (over 20 per cent per annum), primarily led by exports. Of the export markets, Indian pharma will focus on the US market...
12:14 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Jindal's website said the bangle created cellular coherence, allowing the body to be more capable of pain relief. ...
11:38 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Dr. Yusuf K Hamied of Cipla Limited was awarded the CNN-IBN Indian of The Year 2012 in the business category. He was awarded for taking on multinational pharma companies and making some of the essential drugs more affordable to the masses in the developing countries. Here's Dr Hamid's message after being awarded by CNN-IBN Honoured Guests and Friends, For the past 52 years, I have been actively involved with the...
12:22 PM, Dec 17, 2012
