Health

Intellectual property evolution and innovation ecosystem as effective tools in strengthening Indian healthcare sector

Despite India’s enormous technological potential, indigenous medicinal knowledge and various initiatives by the government and industry at translational cycle, the country carries a global disease burden of 21%, majorly contributed by dual disease burden. Public health faces the major anomalies of 3A (accessibility, affordability, availability) of the healthcare sector, possibly due to restrictive coordination among stakeholders, transiting disease profile, undeveloped delivery system and regulatory mechanisms.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2018
Tripta Dixit, Sadhana Srivastava, Smita Sahu & et al
Current Science
114
8
1639-1649
Tags:
Health Care, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), India, Patents, Drugs, Drug Industry, Public Sector, Private Sector
Health

Vaccines work

Vaccination has successfully reduced the burden of infectious diseases worldwide, but stagnating immunization coverage and lack of effective vaccines for many endemic and newly emerging pathogens pose a threat to sustainable global health. In light of World Immunization Week 2018, which highlights the importance of high vaccination coverage, Nature Communications is taking stock of current advances and barriers in vaccine development and distribution. (Editorial)

Original Source

Publication Date: 
24/04/2018
Nature Communications
1-2
Tags:
Vaccination, Immunisation, World Health Organization, Infectious Diseases, Polio, Measles, Meningitis, Africa, Drug Industry, Global
Health

Antibiotics in treated farm waste contribute to rise of superbugs

Even the most elite waste treatment systems currently available do not remove antibiotics from manure, according to a study which suggests that traces of the medicines leach into the environment, p

Publication Date: 
16/04/2018
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Antibiotics, Drugs, Drug Industry, Environment, Health Effects, Health
Health

Demand cancer drugs that truly help patients

Drug regulators and trial designs should assess benefits that actually matter to people with cancer, says Ajay Aggarwal.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
12/04/2018
Ajay Aggarwal
Nature
151
151
Tags:
Cancer, Drugs, Drug Industry, United States Of America (US), Medical Research
Health

Health Ministry proposal to curb substandard drugs, antibiotics overuse in limbo

Last year, two Union ministers and 10 MPs had forwarded objections from a drug traders’ lobby to HealthMin.

Publication Date: 
10/04/2018
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Antibiotics, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Drugs, Drug Industry, Health
Environment

Is Telangana government serious about shifting polluting industries?

HYDERABAD: It was way back in 2013 that the then government had announced that polluting industries in the city would be shifted out of the city to areas beyond the Outer Ring Road (ORR).

Publication Date: 
10/04/2018
New Indian Express (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Telangana, Industrial Pollution, Land Pollution, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Chemical Industry, Drug Industry, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Environmental Security, Environment
Health

Ban on over-the-counter sale of 14 steroid creams

To prevent indiscriminate sale of topical preparations containing steroids and antibiotics without prescription, the Health Ministry has banned over-the-counter sale of around 14 such creams.

Publication Date: 
09/04/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Cosmetics, Drug Industry, Antibiotics, Ministry of Healthy and Family Welfare, Health
Health

No proposal for new drug policy at present: Govt

There is no definite proposal for a new drug policy before the government at present though some stakeholders have discussed the basic contents that should go into a draft pharma policy, Parliament

Publication Date: 
05/04/2018
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Drugs, Drug Industry, Health Policy, Health
Environment

Polluting firms identified: KT Rama Rao

About 100 polluting firms to be relocated to outskirts in 3 months.

Publication Date: 
29/03/2018
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Industrial Pollution, Hyderabad (T), Drug Industry, Industrial Waste, Environment
Environment

PCB cracks down, shuts four polluting industries

HYDERABAD: Taking a tough stand, the Telangana Pollution Control Board (TPCB) closed four industries on the outskirts of the city for violating pollution norms.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2018
Times Of India (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Telangana, Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Chemical Industry, Air Quality Standards, Drug Industry, Environmental Health, Environment

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