Drug Industry

Complaints, complainants, and rulings regarding drug promotion in the United Kingdom and Sweden 2004–2012: A quantitative and qualitative study of pharmaceutical industry self-regulation

In many European countries, medicines promotion is governed by voluntary codes of practice administered by the pharmaceutical industry under its own system of self-regulation. Involvement of industry organizations in policing promotion has been proposed to deter illicit conduct, but few detailed studies on self-regulation have been carried out to date. The objective of this study was to examine the evidence for promotion and self-regulation in the UK and Sweden, two countries frequently cited as examples of effective self-regulation.

Publication Date:

17/02/2015

Author(s): Anna V. Zetterqvist, Juan Merlo, Shai Mulinari

Source: PLoS Medicine

pp:

1-28

Tags:

Drug Industry, Drugs, United Kingdom (UK), Sweden, Health Personnel, Health Policy

Water Pollution

Global good practices in industrial wastewater treatment and disposal/reuse, with special reference to common effluent treatment plants

Rapid industrialization is adversely impacting the environment globally. Pollution by inappropriate management of industrial wastewater is one of the major environmental problems in India as well, especially with burgeoning small scale industrial sector in the country.

Publication Date:

01/02/2015

Source: Central Pollution Control Board

Tags:

Industrial Waste Treatment, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Wastewater Recycling, Textile Industry, Leather Industry, Drug Industry, India, Global, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)

Health

Promote Indian drugs, US health groups urge Obama

Leading US health groups including AVAC, Oxfam America, amfAR, Health Global Access Project (GAP), TAG (Treatment Action Group)and others have written to Barack Obama urging him to support India in

Publication Date:

27/01/2015

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

United States Of America (US), India, Drugs, Health Care, Global, Drug Industry, WTO

Health

Health Ministry to scan drug samples to check quality

In a view of various reports doubting the quality of drugs manufactured in India and sold in the domestic and export market, the Union Health Ministry has launched the largest ever sample survey of

Publication Date:

27/01/2015

Source: Pioneer (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Drugs, Drug Industry, WHO, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare

Health

Govt embarks on largest ever survey of spurious, sub-standard drugs

3 types of drugs to be tested

Publication Date:

19/01/2015

Author(s): Aditi Tandon

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Drugs, WHO, Tuberculosis (TB), Drug Industry, Diabetes, Health

Health

Uttarakhand, HP units found diverting chemicals used in synthetic drugs

The Narcotics Control Bureau has unearthed five rings allegedly diverting pseudoephedrine from pharmaceutical manufacturing units in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for making party drugs.

Publication Date:

16/01/2015

Author(s): Shaurya Karanbir Gurung

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

Drugs, Drug Industry, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), European Union (EU), Health Effects, Health

Health

Indian patients lose out to clinical trial rulebook

Aspirin is one of world’s most popped pills, the answer to maladies ranging from simple aches and pains or even a mild fever.

Publication Date:

15/01/2015

Author(s): Pallavi Ail

Source: Financial Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Drugs, Drug Industry, Medical Research, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Health Effects, Health

Health

Delhi HC asks Cipla to stop sale of respiratory drug

Court favours Novartis, but allows Cipla to sell the remaining stock

Publication Date:

13/01/2015

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Drug Industry, Respiratory Diseases, Drugs, High Court, WTO, Health

Water Pollution

Solan pharma unit’s waste water samples collected

Officials of Paonta Sahib regional office of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) today collected samples of waste water of a pharmaceutical unit following complaints by local villagers that th

Publication Date:

09/01/2015

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

Himachal Pradesh, Solan (D), Drug Industry, Water Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Industrial Waste

Health