Cipla has got tentative approval from the USFDA for its abbreviated new drug application for anti-HIV/AIDS drug Slamivudine.
'We are hoping by March, the government allows us to export and give it to the private market.'
In the aftermath of heavy rains and flooding in Maharashtra, 19 confirmed cases of cholera have been reported across the state, while Mumbai alone has 352 hepatitis, 30 leptospirosis and 10 dengue patients, state health officials said on Wednesday.
'There is a Covid vaccine-mania that is happening in the world now and the vaccine makers are using this mania for their own gains'
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Doctors across the country have begun a mass movement on injection safety in a bid to save thousands of lives lost every year to unsafe management of the pricking needle.
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In a study which included more than 90,000 Japanese found people who drank coffee daily or nearly every day had half the liver cancer risk of those who never drank coffee.
Drugmaker major Wockhardt plans to introduce two new products - recombinant Human Insulin and Interferon alpha 2b - in the domestic market next year.
Shahid Jameel, recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, also said that the country had already reached community transmission a long time ago.
'On a daily basis you are saying, you do this, you do that, but where is the blueprint of the war?' 'How many isolations actually we need per hundred thousand people?' 'How many ventilators will we need for 100,000 people?'
'I can say with confidence that any future SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, developed anywhere in the world, would have to be manufactured in India, if it is to be affordable and of high quality.'
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The biotech company's revenues had fallen to as low as Rs 50 cr.
Roche has already adapted its business model in India to increase affordable access to drugs and try to stave off trouble from India's patent authorities.
'Corona will go on for more than six months now in Mumbai city.' 'It cannot vanish within just two or three months.' 'This infection may remain there in communities, somewhere or the other, like swine flu.'
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'The rate of transmission of COVID-19 in Hong Kong was 0.7 -- anything below 1 suggests the epidemic is receding.' 'The city-State achieved this without the de facto police-State curfew that India has resorted to,' says Rahul Jacob.
Sharbat Gula was also given a 15-day jail sentence and will have to pay a fine of Pakistani Rs 1,10,000.
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What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
According to the IT department's complaint, Burman was holding foreign bank accounts but he had not disclosed about it in his income tax returns and there were undisclosed deposits in those two accounts.
Western drugmakers, including Pfizer Inc, Novartis AG, Roche Holding AG and Sanofi SA, covet a bigger share of the fast-growing Indian drugs market.
As flood waters start to recede in Srinagar, the region is faced with yet another challenge -- threat of an epidemic outbreak.
'The worst case scenario is a rebound of the virus.' 'Life is not going to be what it was.' 'Life as we know it has changed forever.' 'The new normal therefore is test, trace and treat.'
'...and a bagful of ill-mannered, threatening, creditors.'
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain the bail plea of sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, accused in a 2012 shootout in New Delhi that killed liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep, saying charges against him were "grave".
Sensex lost 184 points to trade at 23,878 and the Nifty has dropped 55 points to quote at 7,254.
Gates, who is to attend the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, on Monday said there is reason to be optimistic than ever about the future progress using vaccines to give all children a healthy start to life.
The rate of immunisation is low mainly because of rumours that the vaccines would have a sterilising effect on the children.
The most worrisome aspect is that most water woes are the result of mismanagement
Adults are as likely as children to fall prey to diseases that immunisation can potentially prevent.
As the rescue operations in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir are tapering off and the victims are being attended to in scores of relief camps, most of which have been set up by the locals, fear of an epidemic still looms in the affected areas.
After the deluge, the fear of epidemic is lurking in the minds of doctors here who are facing an "acute" shortage of medicines.
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