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Centre Cuts Prices Of 35 Essential Medicines
In a move to make medicines more affordable for patients, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has reduced the retail prices of 35 essential drugs sold by leading pharmaceutical companies.
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Trump Warns Pharma Companies To Cut Prices Or Be Punished
US President Donald Trump told major pharmaceutical firms Thursday to lower prices or face punishment, as he moved to give Americans relief from medicine costs much higher than elsewhere in the world.
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"States Have Failed...": Supreme Court On Affordable Drugs, Medical Equipment
State governments have failed in ensuring affordable medical care and infrastructure, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, offering scathing criticism of states' failure to deliver reasonably-priced medicines, particularly in case of essential drugs.
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Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner
Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels.
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Cancer Cases Rising, Prices Of Essential Medicines Kept In Check: Health Minister
The government makes all efforts to ensure affordable and accessible treatment is available for cancer patients amid a rise in cases in India, Health Minister JP Nadda said today.
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Budget 2024: What Is Cheaper, What Is Costlier?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a major reduction in customs duty on cancer medicines and mobile phones, which will significantly bring down their prices in the retail market.
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Government Slashes Prices Of 41 Medicines, Including Those For Diabetes, Heart Ailments
The government has reduced the prices of 41 commonly used medicines and six formulations used to treat diseases such as diabetes, heart and liver ailments.
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Reports Claiming Big Hike In Medicine Prices Are False, Misleading: Centre
The government dismissed the media reports claiming that medicine prices will witness a significant hike by up to 12 per cent from April 2024 and called them false, misleading and malicious.
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India Sent Medicine To 150 Countries During Covid Crisis: Health Minister
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that India sent medicines to 150 countries during covid crisis without increasing the price and compromising on the quality of the medicines.
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Desperate China Families Turn To Black Market For Covid Medicines
Desperate families searching for critical Covid-19 medication in China, faced with bare pharmacy shelves and an explosion of cases, are being driven into murky online marketplaces rife with price gouging and fraud.
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Several Anti-Cancer Drugs, Antibiotics, Now "Essential Medicines", To Be Cheaper
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines will now become more affordable as they are among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines, with the government saying this will reduce "patients' out-of-pocket expenditure".
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"Should I Feed My Kids Or Should I Kill Them?": Pak Woman Complains About Price Rise
Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Bail Granted To Men For Hoarding, Selling Covid Medicines At High Prices
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to four men, who were arrested for allegedly hoarding and selling at exorbitant rates life-saving medicines to treat COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic.
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Two Arrested For Selling Remdesivir At High Prices In Thane: Police
Two persons were arrested in Mira Road township of Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly selling medicines used in COVID-19 treatment at high prices, police said on Saturday.
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Watch: PM Modi Moved After Woman Cries, Thanks Him For Subsidised Medicines
Emotional message of thanks from beneficiary of Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana - a central scheme that provides generic medicines at subsidised prices - left Prime Minister Narendra Modi visibly moved
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Centre Cuts Prices Of 35 Essential Medicines
In a move to make medicines more affordable for patients, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has reduced the retail prices of 35 essential drugs sold by leading pharmaceutical companies.
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Trump Warns Pharma Companies To Cut Prices Or Be Punished
US President Donald Trump told major pharmaceutical firms Thursday to lower prices or face punishment, as he moved to give Americans relief from medicine costs much higher than elsewhere in the world.
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"States Have Failed...": Supreme Court On Affordable Drugs, Medical Equipment
State governments have failed in ensuring affordable medical care and infrastructure, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, offering scathing criticism of states' failure to deliver reasonably-priced medicines, particularly in case of essential drugs.
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Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner
Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels.
-
Cancer Cases Rising, Prices Of Essential Medicines Kept In Check: Health Minister
The government makes all efforts to ensure affordable and accessible treatment is available for cancer patients amid a rise in cases in India, Health Minister JP Nadda said today.
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Budget 2024: What Is Cheaper, What Is Costlier?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a major reduction in customs duty on cancer medicines and mobile phones, which will significantly bring down their prices in the retail market.
-
Government Slashes Prices Of 41 Medicines, Including Those For Diabetes, Heart Ailments
The government has reduced the prices of 41 commonly used medicines and six formulations used to treat diseases such as diabetes, heart and liver ailments.
-
Reports Claiming Big Hike In Medicine Prices Are False, Misleading: Centre
The government dismissed the media reports claiming that medicine prices will witness a significant hike by up to 12 per cent from April 2024 and called them false, misleading and malicious.
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India Sent Medicine To 150 Countries During Covid Crisis: Health Minister
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that India sent medicines to 150 countries during covid crisis without increasing the price and compromising on the quality of the medicines.
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Desperate China Families Turn To Black Market For Covid Medicines
Desperate families searching for critical Covid-19 medication in China, faced with bare pharmacy shelves and an explosion of cases, are being driven into murky online marketplaces rife with price gouging and fraud.
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Several Anti-Cancer Drugs, Antibiotics, Now "Essential Medicines", To Be Cheaper
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines will now become more affordable as they are among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines, with the government saying this will reduce "patients' out-of-pocket expenditure".
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"Should I Feed My Kids Or Should I Kill Them?": Pak Woman Complains About Price Rise
Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Bail Granted To Men For Hoarding, Selling Covid Medicines At High Prices
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to four men, who were arrested for allegedly hoarding and selling at exorbitant rates life-saving medicines to treat COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic.
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Two Arrested For Selling Remdesivir At High Prices In Thane: Police
Two persons were arrested in Mira Road township of Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly selling medicines used in COVID-19 treatment at high prices, police said on Saturday.
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Watch: PM Modi Moved After Woman Cries, Thanks Him For Subsidised Medicines
Emotional message of thanks from beneficiary of Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana - a central scheme that provides generic medicines at subsidised prices - left Prime Minister Narendra Modi visibly moved
