Lockdown, containment measures successful: ICMR sero-survey

The country's first sero-survey to monitor the trend of coronavirus transmission found that lockdown and containment measures were successful in preventing rapid spread of the disease, but a large......

India sees record 357 COVID-19 deaths, nearly 10,000 cases in 1 day

The nationwide COVID-19 tally neared 2.9 lakh on Thursday with a record one-day increase of nearly 10,000 cases taking the count of infections detected this month to almost one lakh.   IMAGE:......

India definitely not in community transmission stage: Govt

India is definitely not in the community transmission stage of COVID-19 spread, the government asserted on Thursday, even as cases and deaths continued to mount with the country recording the......

'We have done our best, far earlier compared to the rest of the world'

'On January 17, we had our first meeting with the Cabinet secretary.''Different secretaries belonging to different departments attended it.''It was only two weeks when China had said there is a new......

Ranbaxy, others to scrap 60 drug combinations

The country's leading drug makers, including Ranbaxy Laboratories, Cipla, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Nicholas Piramal and Wockhardt, will soon withdraw about 60 drug combinations from the market. The......

Ayurveda firms line up clinical trials

Domestic ayurveda companies, eying a bigger pie of the Western markets, have embraced clinical trials in a bid to provide a scientific basis to their therapeutic claims.The move is part of the......

Guharoy wins SUNY Chancellor's award

Sudip Guharoy, director of pharmacy services and associate chief of the section of clinical pharmacology at the Department of Medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of......

This may hurt Indian drug firms

In what could be a major blow to Indian pharmaceutical companies, the government may choose to define new chemical entities (NCE) in a way that would include all derivatives of a molecule.Thus,......

Cannavaro fails doping test after treatment

Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro is being investigated by doping officials for a failing a drugs test after receiving emergency treatment on an insect bite, his club Juventus said on Thursday.......