Health

Bill to let FDA check drug plants

BY LALIT K. JHA
WASHINGTON

Leading US Senators announced on Wednesday that they are introducing a legislation in the Senate which would make mandatory US inspection of drug manufacturing plants anywhere in the world that supply medicines to them.

Publication Date: 
06/03/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Drugs, Drug Industry, China, India
Health

Ranbaxy uses US arm to stay in the race

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi March 06, 2009, 0:37 IST

Publication Date: 
06/03/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health, Drug Industry, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals
Health

Drugs taxing pockets: Report

The Independent Commission on Development and Health in India has released a report that reveals an average Indian directs 75 per cent of his total healthcare expenditure just to meet the cost of therapeutic drugs.

All thanks to continued overcharging by pharmaceutical firms, poor public spending in the private sector and a weak health insurance system.

Publication Date: 
04/03/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, India
Environment

Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2009

These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Second Amendment Rules, 2009. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

Publication Date: 
04/03/2009
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Environment, Dioxin, Legislation, Environment Act 1986, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Drug Industry
Science And Technology

Chromium (III) removal from aqueous solution by microbial waste from fermentation industry

Removal of chromium (III) from aqueous solution by microbial waste biomass (MB1) obtained as a byproduct of pharmaceutical fermentation industry was studied. In order to understand the sorption kinetic behaviour of chromium (III), a series of batch mode experiments were conducted at different pH values, adsorbent dosage and initial chromium concentration.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Indu Sharma, Dinesh Goyal
Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
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3
224
Tags:
Biomass, Waste Treatment, Drug Industry, Science And Technology
Health

Worst fears realised: The Dutch confiscation of medicines bound from India to Brazil

The confiscation by Dutch customs authorities of a shipment of the pharmaceutical

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Frederick M. Abbott
Bridges
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1
0
Tags:
Trade, WTO, Health, Drugs, Drug Industry, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Netherlands, Brazil, India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Health

Access to medicines back on centre stage at the WTO

Sparked by the confiscation of a generic drugs shipment in Amsterdam in December, and similar incidents that have come to light since, poor countries

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Bridges
13
1
0
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Trade, WTO, Health, Drugs, Drug Industry, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Netherlands, Brazil, India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Health

Changes will mean affordable drugs for all

The patent system that has served drug companies so well may at last be changing to also help those who need drugs most.

Publication Date: 
28/02/2009
Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist
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2697
22
Tags:
Trade, Health, Drugs, Drug Industry, Benefit Sharing, Finance, Research, Patents, India, Developing Countries
Environment

 News 360 - Briefs

new constitution Bolivia reforms land holding Bolivians approved a new constitution granting more power to the country

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Land Reforms, Health Effects, Health, Economy, People, Medical Research, Drug Industry, Child Health, Meningitis, Governance And Institutions, Education, Governance, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, United States Of America (US), Bolivia
Health

US move to hit key drugs: Ranbaxy

DAIICHI Sankyo, the new owner of India

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Drugs, Drug Industry, United States Of America (US), India, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals

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