Health

Drug makers seek out-of-court settlement in clinical trial cases

According to the drug regulator's website, merely 25 clinical trials have been approved by the DCGI in the first five months of 2014

Publication Date: 
10/06/2014
Sushmi Dey
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Drug Industry, Drugs, Medical Research, Health Safety, Health Effects, Health
Health

Lessons learned from the fate of AstraZeneca's drug pipeline: a five-dimensional framework

Maintaining research and development (R&D) productivity at a sustainable level is one of the main challenges currently facing the pharmaceutical industry. In this article, we discuss the results of a comprehensive longitudinal

Publication Date: 
01/06/2014
David Cook, Dearg Brown, Robert Alexander & et al
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
13
419-431
Tags:
Drug Industry, Research, Drugs
Health

Act now, or face catastrophic post-antibiotic era

PRESS RELEASE

 

                                                               
 

 

Centre for Science and Environment, as part of the global civil society coalition issues grave warning to World Health Assembly, urges leadership and action  

 

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Health, Drugs, Preventive Medicine, Drug Industry, CSE
Health

Civil Society Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance

The Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, in this declaration released today, asserts that consumer protection and public health must trump the pursuit of profit, and that effective antibiotics are global public goods. The Coalition also calls for international leadership and action to, in part:

 

Publication Date: 
22/05/2014
Antibiotic Resistance Coalition
Tags:
Health, Drugs, Preventive Medicine, CSE, Drug Industry
Health

High rate of drugs hurt cancer patients in Punjab

Cancer patients from Punjab, who are undergoing treatment at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, are in a Catch-22 situation, because price of life saving cancer drugs su

Publication Date: 
21/05/2014
Nitindra Bandyopadhyay
Pioneer (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Punjab, Cancer, Drugs, Drug Industry, Health Effects, Health
Environment

Pollution board on permit issue spree

Hyderabad: As the state was focused on election results on May 16, the AP Pollution Control Board, which is being divided by June 2, was busy issuing permits to polluting industries.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2014
Sudheer Goutham
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (T), Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environmental Health, Drug Industry, Telangana, Environment
Health

HealthMin fixes relief for clinical trial errors

Companies conducting clinical trials in India will not be able to get away in case any untoward incident happens.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2014
Teena Thacker
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Drugs, Drug Industry, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Compensation, Health Effects, Medical Research, Health
Health

Why seriously affected clinical trial patients not compensated? Supreme Court asks

NEW DELHI: After ensuring that multinational pharmaceutical majors compensate those who die during clinical trials of their new drugs, the Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Centre for not forci

Publication Date: 
22/04/2014
Dhananjay Mahapatra
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Supreme Court, Drug Industry, Medical Research, Compensation
Health

SC tells govt to ensure sponsor compensates clinical trial patients

New Delhi : Expressing concern over deaths and serious injuries to patients during clinical trials of new chemical entities, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to “compel” the sponsor

Publication Date: 
22/04/2014
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Supreme Court, Drug Industry, Compensation, Medical Research
Health

Supreme Court wants more clarity on clinical trials

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union health ministry to make drug companies that want to experiment with new formulations answer three queries in a format to be prepared by the technical

Publication Date: 
22/04/2014
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Supreme Court, Drug Industry, Compensation, Medical Research

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