Drug Industry

Pharma city near Hyderabad will not cause pollution: KTR

HYDERABAD: Industries minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday sought help of the scientific community to talk to farmers and explain to them that the proposed world’s largest pharma city near Hyderabad wi

Publication Date:

30/04/2018

Source: Times Of India (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Telangana, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, Drug Industry, Industrial Waste, Godavari, Environment

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

Author(s): Tripta Dixit, Sadhana Srivastava, Smita Sahu & et al

Source: Current Science

Vol:

114

Issue:

8

pp:

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

Source: Nature Communications

pp:

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

Source: 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

Author(s): Ajay Aggarwal

Source: Nature

Vol:

151

pp:

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

Source: 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

Source: 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

Source: 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

Source: Pioneer (New Delhi)

Tags:

Drugs, Drug Industry, Health Policy, Health

Environment