Tag: medicine

From demonetisation to Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), laptop curbs to generic medicine mandate, there is an emerging pattern in the government of the day. Decisions are railroaded without thinking through or adequate deliberations on the likely fallout. They are later discarded. The inexplicable haste to rule by executive orders hurts governance, creates unnecessary anxieties among sectors.

In a bid to address the alarming issue of fake drugs in the market and for giving consumers the power to verify the authenticity of their medications effortlessly, India has introduced QR Codes to Verify Medicine Authenticity on the top 300 medicine brands.

In the last two years of Covid 19 pandemic, how has India responded to e pharmacy? Is online drug business getting momentum...

A family of harmful bacteria that causes diseases like TB and leprosy has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and the alarming situation warrants novel...

Nearly half of people in a large U.S. study reported misusing prescription drugs between ages 18-50, which made them more likely to develop substance...

With consumer preference for online purchase of drugs increasing, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) called for enforcing necessary regulations for safeguarding patient privacy...

2-Deoxy-D- Glucose (2DG), the first drug to be termed as anti Covid druig, has been extensively tested for treating cancer, but is so far...

India is for holding a “prescription audit” on the usage of drug cocktails, which the drug pricing authority of India feels will help in...

Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice gets the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus, a major...

Illegal wildlife trade has seen an increase in the last many years and the demand for wildlife products comes from a number of different...