medicines
- Telangana
DCA Telangana holds workshop for its officers on spurious drugs
Hyderabad: As part of capacity building, DCA Telangana conducted a one-day “Workshop on Anti-counterfeiting measures and spurious drug investigations for DCA Telangana officers” on Saturday, February 10, in collaboration with Abbott India…
- Hyderabad
Telangana: Illegal medical stores raided, Rs 4.65 lakh worth medicines seized
Hyderabad: The officials of the Drugs Control Administration (DCA), Telangana, raided two medical stores, one in Ramanthapur and another in Nirmal and seized huge stocks of medicines worth totalling Rs 4.65 lakhs…
- Telangana
DCA seizes illegal drugs worth Rs 73k from quack in Sangareddy
Hyderabad: Officials from the drugs control administration officials raided the premises of a ‘quack’ at Bhanur village, Patancheru mandal, Sangareddy district on Monday and seized medicines worth Rs 73 thousand. Also ReadBurmese…
- Bangalore
Karnataka hospitals face medicine shortage as KSMSCL delays procurement
Bangalore: The Karnataka State Medical Supply Corporation Limited (KSMSCL), responsible for supplying medicines and medical equipment to government hospitals, is facing severe criticism due to delays in procurement processes. This has led…
- India
Fake medicines: After WHO alerts, DGCI asks states to hold strict vigil
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has directed the drugs controllers of all states and Union territories to keep a strict vigil on the sale and distribution of falsified…
- Middle East
Video: Dubai hospital successfully delivers medicine via drone
Abu Dhabi: A Dubai hospital successfully delivered medicines to patients’ homes using drone technology, in a trial that has been described as the first of its kind in the Middle East. In…
- Telangana
Amrit Kal?: Harish Rao slams Centre for hike in prices of drugs
Hyderabad: Telangana health minister T Harish Rao on Thursday slammed the Centre on Thursday for the 12 percent price hike that would take effect on April 1 for roughly 384 drugs and…
- India
Tests, treatment, medicines to be free at govt hospitals in Chhattisgarh from June 1
Raipur: Chhattisgarh Health and Family Welfare Minister T S Singh Deo on Tuesday announced in the state Legislative Assembly that all tests, treatment and medicines will be free at government-run health facilities…
- Hyderabad
‘Buy generic medicines’, says Kishan Reddy on Jan Aushadhi Divas
Hyderabad: Union minister Kishan Reddy on Tuesday said that instead of buying branded medicines, people should buy generic medicines which have the same impact. On the occasion of Jan Aushadhi Divas, Union…
- India
Apollo Hospital launches ‘Medicines from the Sky’ at Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh
The ‘Medicine from the sky’ project drone service was successfully launched today at Ziro, Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh in the presence of honourable health and family welfare minister, Alo Libang.…
- Middle East
Expired medicines kill 10 children in Yemen’s hospital
Sanaa: Ten children with leukemia died after receiving expired medicines in a public hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Houthi-run state media reported, citing a statement by the Houthi-controlled health authorities. Meanwhile, nine…
- India
With addition of 34 new drugs, number of essential medicines goes to 384
New Delhi: A total of 384 drugs have been included in the National Lists of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2022, which was released by the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya here on Tuesday.…
- Health
Drinking 2 cups of tea daily may help you live longer
New York: Those who drink more than two cups of tea every day are more likely to live longer than people who do not, says a new study. The study, published in…
- India
SC on Dolo-650 makers spending Rs 1K cr as freebies on docs for prescribing tablet
New Delhi: The Supreme Court was told on Thursday that the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) has accused the makers of the Dolo-650 tablets of distributing freebies of around Rs 1,000…
- India
HIV+ patients protest over shortage of drugs; Govt denies medicine scarcity
New Delhi: A group of people who are HIV positive have been protesting outside the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) office here for the past 20 days alleging shortage of certain antiretroviral…
