Reliance Industries Ltd's R&D arm has proposed the use of Niclosamide -- the drug used to treat tapeworm infestation -- for treating Covid-19 patients. IMAGE: A health worker attends to a Covid-19......
A parliamentary committee has stressed the urgent need to evolve strategies for development of next-generation vaccines and recommended that the Union health ministry encourage vaccine development......
For the Mizo people, tribal and family identity are important. But so are jobs, farmers' access to markets, roads, and health facilities for a young population where drugs are a big affliction.......
The first drug to treat low sexual desire in premenopausal women, dubbed "female Viagra", has been approved in the United States, but with a warning about potentially dangerous side effects such as......
'If the trial succeeds, it will become the success of Ayurveda.''If it's a failure, it's my failure alone.' IMAGE: A clinician at work at an Ayurvedic laboratory. Photograph: Kind courtesy Dr......
Most of the pharma units are failing in documentation, and validation processes, and many don't have full-fledged quality control laboratories. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only......
Centre mulls strategy to ensure powers given to the agencies are not misused. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Centre is taking a hard look at agencies responsible for......
Security breach came days after the firm got approval to conduct trials for Covid-19 vaccine candidate Sputnik V. Days after Hyderabad-based drug major Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) received......
More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards Substandard medicines could be three times more prevalent than the government says, two new studies show.......
Cadila Healthcare on Friday said it had received permission to conduct clinical trials on its new molecular entity - ZYH1 - a formula to check cholesterol in blood. The drug controller general of......