Health

Ban diabetes drug? Panel to decide

New Delhi/Chennai: India has set up a six-member committee of experts on the advice of the country

Publication Date: 
23/02/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health, Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Heart Diseases, Diabetes
Hazardous Waste

Drug unit asked to shift effluent

Satish Shile, Bangalore, Feb 18, DH News Service:

The manufacturing unit of a major pharmaceutical company located at Virgonagar in Bangalore has violated the norms for scientific disposal of effluent.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Drug Industry, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Waste, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Karnataka, Bangalore (D)
Health

Counting On Indias Potential

Pfizer, the world

Publication Date: 
15/02/2010
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Development, Health Care, Drug Industry, Research, Thane (T)
Health

India combats confusion over counterfeit drugs

India is taking steps to reverse anti-counterfeiting measures in some east African nations that could stop the importation of generic drugs made in the country.

Publication Date: 
12/02/2010
Patralekha Chatterjee
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Health, Malaria, Health Policy, Drugs, Drug Industry, AIDS, Legislation, Africa, Kenya, Uganda, India
Health

Soon, cancer drugs at half-price from govt outlets?

New Delhi: In a first-ever initiative to bring down prices of expensive cancer medication, the government plans to retail them through its

Publication Date: 
09/02/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Cancer, Health, Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Poverty, India
Health

Court refers drug patent cases to IPAB: move may set new precedent

THE DELHI High Court on Monday referred six drug patent cases to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), the apex government body to hear such disputes. This could set a precedent for all future appeals regarding `pre-grant

Publication Date: 
09/02/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health, Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), High Court
Health

Ecuador decrees new access to health policy

The Andean country has joined a growing number of developing nations in taking advantage of flexibilities in the WTO

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
Bridges
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Trade, WTO, Health, Health Policy, Drugs, Drug Industry, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Ecuador
Health

Learning to share

By opening up its database of potential malaria drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has blazed a path that other pharmaceutical companies should follow. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
28/01/2010
Nature
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Health, Malaria, Drugs, Drug Industry, Tropical Diseases, Information, Developing Countries
Health

Drug controller, pharma industry on collision course

The turf war between the pharmaceutical industry and Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is set to intensify after sources close to DCGI confirmed on Monday that the drug controller will soon be approaching the Supreme Court over the issue of centralising power to grant Certificate of Pharmaceutical Products (CoPP)

Publication Date: 
27/01/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Supreme Court, High Court, WHO, India, Karnataka
Industry

Pfizer aims to be among top 5 India cos

THE world

Publication Date: 
25/01/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, India

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