SC HAS SENT NOTICE TO HEALTH MIN ON SUSPENSION OF DRUG PSUs
Khomba Singh & Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI

NPPA Refers 39 Long-Pending & Big Cases Of Overcharging To States As It Manages To Recover Only 10% Dues
Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI

New Delhi: There are no laws at present to penalize and monitor pharma companies, which have messed up or violated norms while conducting global clinical trials for testing drugs in India to avoid instances like patients

MUMBAI: Unethical promotional expenditure in respect of marketing of drugs adopted by some players in the industry may push up drug prices to unreasonable levels, a top industry official said.

28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN

NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition of the pharmaceutical cocktail within a week.

Patancheru (Medak, AP): Patancheru became a hub for largely unregulated chemical and drug factories in the 1980s, creating what is described locally as an

PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.