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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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Heroin Use At 20-Year High In US Drug 'Epidemic': UN
A heroin "epidemic" is gripping the United States, where cheap supply has helped push the number of users to a 20-year high, increasing drug-related deaths, the United Nations said today.
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Cheap Osteoporosis Drug Could Prevent a Sixth of Breast Cancer Deaths
Study finds bisphosponates, which only cost 5p a day per patient, reduced risk of dying from breast cancer for postmenopausal women.
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India Acts to Repair Reputation as Drugs Exporter
India is launching a campaign to repair its reputation as a global supplier of cheap high-quality drugs, responding to bans imposed by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on several suppliers, two top officials said on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court backs generics in Novartis drug patent ruling
India's Supreme Court rejected Monday a patent bid by Swiss drug giant Novartis in a landmark ruling that activists say will protect access to cheap generic drugs and save lives in developing nations.
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Novartis AG's plea for Glivec patent dismissed by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive sales and a victory for local makers of cheap generics.
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Poor countries should get life-saving drugs at cost price
Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.
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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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Heroin Use At 20-Year High In US Drug 'Epidemic': UN
A heroin "epidemic" is gripping the United States, where cheap supply has helped push the number of users to a 20-year high, increasing drug-related deaths, the United Nations said today.
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Cheap Osteoporosis Drug Could Prevent a Sixth of Breast Cancer Deaths
Study finds bisphosponates, which only cost 5p a day per patient, reduced risk of dying from breast cancer for postmenopausal women.
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India Acts to Repair Reputation as Drugs Exporter
India is launching a campaign to repair its reputation as a global supplier of cheap high-quality drugs, responding to bans imposed by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on several suppliers, two top officials said on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court backs generics in Novartis drug patent ruling
India's Supreme Court rejected Monday a patent bid by Swiss drug giant Novartis in a landmark ruling that activists say will protect access to cheap generic drugs and save lives in developing nations.
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Novartis AG's plea for Glivec patent dismissed by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive sales and a victory for local makers of cheap generics.
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Poor countries should get life-saving drugs at cost price
Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.
