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India Sets Import Price Floor On Key Penicillin Ingredients To Protect Drug Supply
The government has imposed a minimum import price on three key penicillin ingredients for one year, aiming to support domestic manufacturers and secure India's antibiotic supply chain.
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WHO Backs Weight-Loss Drugs To Treat Diabetes, Obesity, Urges Cheap Generics
The World Health Organization recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries.
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Gates Foundation Commits $120 Million To Support Access To New Covid Pill
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced an investment of up to $120 million in an effort to speed up low-income countries' access to a new anti-Covid drug.
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Taiwan Provisionally Approves Dexamethasone As Coronavirus Treatment
Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely-used steroid, to treat the new coronavirus, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the United States bought nearly all global supplies.
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Promote Cheaper Drugs For COVID-19, Parliamentary Panel Tells Centre
India will be crossing the 1 million mark in coronavirus cases soon but life-saving drugs are either not available or are being sold in black market. A parliamentary panel on Home Affairs raised the issue and instructed that COVID-19 drugs be made easily available and affordable for patients.
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A Cheap Steroid Emerges As Life-Saving Drug For COVID-19
Giving low doses of the generic steroid drug dexamethasone to patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 reduced death rates by around a third among those with the most severe cases of infection, trial data showed on Tuesday.
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Urvashi Rautela Slams Media For 'Giving Integrity' To Disgraced Ex-PR
Urvashi Rautela posted a statement on her social media upbraiding the media for making her former PR manager legit
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China To Provide "Greater Access" To Indian Anti-Cancer Drugs After Movie
China on Monday said it has initiated specific measures for the import of Indian pharmaceuticals, specially anti-cancer medicines, to provide them "greater access" to the Chinese market, days after a Chinese movie on a leukaemia patient highlighted the need for paving the way for import of cheap Indian medicines.
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This Company Is Ready To Flood The US With Cheap HIV Drugs
Among the coconut plantations and beaches of South India, a factory the size of 35 football fields is preparing to churn out billions of generic pills for HIV patients and flood the US market with the low-cost copycat medicines.
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Cheap Drug For Common Cold Can Stop Spread Of Cancer: Research
Tokyo: A non-steroid, anti-inflammatory drug used for treating common cold has the potential to suppress the spread of bladder cancers as well as reduce their resistance to anti-cancer drugs in mice, Japanese researchers have found. Bladder cancer – the seventh most common cancer in males worldwide – can be grouped into two types: non-muscle-i...
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India Sets Import Price Floor On Key Penicillin Ingredients To Protect Drug Supply
The government has imposed a minimum import price on three key penicillin ingredients for one year, aiming to support domestic manufacturers and secure India's antibiotic supply chain.
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WHO Backs Weight-Loss Drugs To Treat Diabetes, Obesity, Urges Cheap Generics
The World Health Organization recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries.
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Gates Foundation Commits $120 Million To Support Access To New Covid Pill
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced an investment of up to $120 million in an effort to speed up low-income countries' access to a new anti-Covid drug.
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Taiwan Provisionally Approves Dexamethasone As Coronavirus Treatment
Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely-used steroid, to treat the new coronavirus, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir after the United States bought nearly all global supplies.
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Promote Cheaper Drugs For COVID-19, Parliamentary Panel Tells Centre
India will be crossing the 1 million mark in coronavirus cases soon but life-saving drugs are either not available or are being sold in black market. A parliamentary panel on Home Affairs raised the issue and instructed that COVID-19 drugs be made easily available and affordable for patients.
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A Cheap Steroid Emerges As Life-Saving Drug For COVID-19
Giving low doses of the generic steroid drug dexamethasone to patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 reduced death rates by around a third among those with the most severe cases of infection, trial data showed on Tuesday.
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Urvashi Rautela Slams Media For 'Giving Integrity' To Disgraced Ex-PR
Urvashi Rautela posted a statement on her social media upbraiding the media for making her former PR manager legit
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China To Provide "Greater Access" To Indian Anti-Cancer Drugs After Movie
China on Monday said it has initiated specific measures for the import of Indian pharmaceuticals, specially anti-cancer medicines, to provide them "greater access" to the Chinese market, days after a Chinese movie on a leukaemia patient highlighted the need for paving the way for import of cheap Indian medicines.
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This Company Is Ready To Flood The US With Cheap HIV Drugs
Among the coconut plantations and beaches of South India, a factory the size of 35 football fields is preparing to churn out billions of generic pills for HIV patients and flood the US market with the low-cost copycat medicines.
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Cheap Drug For Common Cold Can Stop Spread Of Cancer: Research
Tokyo: A non-steroid, anti-inflammatory drug used for treating common cold has the potential to suppress the spread of bladder cancers as well as reduce their resistance to anti-cancer drugs in mice, Japanese researchers have found. Bladder cancer – the seventh most common cancer in males worldwide – can be grouped into two types: non-muscle-i...
