Vaccine makers in India have a limited stockpile of doses, even as COVID-19 threatens to rear its head this winter season, reports Sohini Das. IMAGE: A beneficiary is being inoculated with a......
India's drug regulator has initiated a probe and sought further details from the WHO after the global health body issued an alert that cough syrups manufactured by an Indian firm could potentially......
This could also be India's first vaccine for children aged 12 years and above as the company has conducted trials on the age group. The decision, however, lies with the regulator, reports Sohini......
The global trials were halted after a study participant suffered a ‘potentially unexplained illness', reports Sohini Das. IMAGE: Serum Institute of India is the Indian partner of AstraZeneca......
India is not keen to ‘bow down’ to demands related to indemnity against legal liabilities in case any vaccine recipient develops severe adverse reactions post inoculation. Even as......
As the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) is set to crack down on companies to ensure compliance with printing QR codes on top-selling brands to curb counterfeiting, top pharma companies say......
With an eye on improving quality assurance in the wake of increased global scrutiny on Indian pharma products, the Centre on Tuesday said that Schedule M of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 will......
Given the stringent nature of India’s regulatory environment for clinical trials, several pharmaceutical companies have moved their trials out of India. As a result, only 1.2 per cent of......
At a time India-made medicines appear to be losing sheen the world over, the country’s top regulator, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), is struggling to ensure quality of drugs in......
The concerns surrounding drug manufacturing practices in India appear to have reached foreign shores, beyond the international regulators’ domain. Ranbaxy whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur,......