The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its lists of essential medicines and diagnostics in a bid to expand access to affordable treatments for individuals worldwide. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserted in a statement that “around the world, more than 150 countries use WHO’s Essential Medicines List to guide decisions about which medicines represent …
The Centre is under pressure to ban drugs that are still being sold in India despite being flagged a decade ago as being potentially unsafe. The Delhi High Court has given the Centre until January 4th to respond to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Dinesh Thakur in October. Thakur is a public health …
Recent reports have surfaced of a new “super antibiotic” being developed by Japanese pharma company Shionogi. The term super antibiotic is problematic. At best, it could simply be wishful thinking. At worst, it could be a dangerous exaggeration in a world where antibiotic resistance is a looming threat to public health. Is appropriate language being …
The Supreme Court has reversed plans by the Centre to ban three of the 328 combination medications it announced plans to ban last week over safety concerns. Saridon, Piriton and Dart are the three products given a reprieve by the apex court. The ban will still apply to 325 of 343 fixed dose combination (FDC) medications whose …
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The Centre’s ban on hormone drug Oxytocin was supposed to come into force today, but has been stayed till October by the Delhi High Court (DHC). The news will surely come as a relief to activists, doctors and drugmakers opposing the Centre’s decision to tighten restrictions on the drug’s production and sale in India. Many …
India’s health sector and medical industry may see negative effects in the future stemming from an over reliance on imports of medicine and raw materials from China, claims the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA), the apex organisation for Indian pharmacists. However, these Chinese raw materials are used in medicines destined for domestic consumption and for …
This has been reproduced, with permission, from The News Minute. Full credit goes to the author Ramanathan S. (@madrassi). The original article can be accessed here Not very far from the Serpentine Bar at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, the United Nations HQ, where both lobbyists of the private sector and non-state actors are competing …
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