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Voluntary Recall Of Tainted Painkillers

...rigo quality control measures revealed issues with manufacturing equipment. When sweeping around 70 million pills with metal detectors, Perrigo inspectors found that 200 caplets contained pieces of metal ranging from 1-millimeter 'microdots', to 8-millimeter pieces of wire. Describing the recall a Perrigo executiv...

Novel Plans Of FDA To Monitor Safety Of Medical Devices

...nized for flaws attributed to defects in design or manufacturing defects of individual units, more often after they are introduced into the market. The FDA now intends to revamp this system by insisting on having encoded script for identification on every piece of gadget manufactured by a firm to scrutinize and ...

List of 886 Drug Prices that has been Reduced by Govt. of India

...ilers will be allowed 35 per cent over the cost of manufacturing of generic medicines. The drugs where reduced pricing would help include anti-diabetic drugs, antibiotics, cough syrups, pain killers, hypertension and drugs that help cure surgical infections. Minister Paswan making the announcement had clarified ...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

...ed a "forward-looking" electronics and IT hardware manufacturing policy soon to help realise //late prime minister ...aid electronics, IT and telecommunication hardware manufacturing have a great potential in India. "Our government will follow a forward-looking policy regime that wi...

Medicines to Cost Less

...rgin while retailers would get 35 percent over the manufacturing cost of non-branded and generic medicines. The new pricing system - with the label bearing the maximum retail price inclusive of local taxes - had come into effect from Oct 2 but the government allowed one month's grace for replacing the stocks tha...

Hindustan Latex To Market Vaccines

...r plant in Belgaum (Karnataka), which is currently manufacturing women's pharma products including contraceptives," a company official told IANS. With communicable diseases accounting for a large share of health problems in India, especially among the poor, HLL plans to use its wide network in India and overseas ...

Do Computer Factories Enhance Cancer Risk?

...t cancer mortality ratios were higher amongst male manufacturing workers....

New Garlic Product Mimics Garlic to Perfection

...easily absorbed. Using innovative state-of-the-art manufacturing we have developed a process that delivers as much natural allicin as fresh garlic without offensive odors or discomfort. This new, all natural proprietary process is designed to eliminate the degradation of alliinase which occurs when high potency ga...

Robot Wheelchair Maybe Helpful for Wheelchair-dependent Patients

...botic technology developed at NIST for defense and manufacturing applications. It is built on an off-the-shelf forklift with a U-frame base on wheel-like casters and a rectangular vertical frame. The frame is small enough to pass through the typical residential bathroom. The user drives the chair using a joystick ...

Novel Technique Would Prevent Re-Clogged Arteries

...stop taking the pro-drug, and the stent would stop manufacturing the drug. “This approach makes up a very general technological platform that can be applied for different medical problems,” said Lotan. “It has potential applications for every drug, known today or invented in the future, and could be useful for m...

Dabur Research to set up Drug Discovery Center in Oman

...ery done there. We also want to do the process and manufacturing there for marketing the product across the world. We also want to develop a marine depository in Oman," said Mukherjee. The project envisages research and development of both nutraceuticals and therapeutic drugs. All these activities are expected t...

Molecular Medicine And Diabetes

...e North Shore suburban girl was well on her way to manufacturing insulin in her own body and ready to spend a few days at the beach before she started school. As she continued to do well, her insulin was reduced day by day. The following Wednesday, August 23, with her doctors' direction, Lilly's mother disconnec...

Positive Results of the Chinese bird flu vaccine

...ithin six months of round the clock working by the manufacturing companies, sufficient vaccine will be produced to cater to 742 million people, which will help in tiding over a potential pandemic....

Can Ayurveda provide a treatment for Alzheimer's?

...re. Also, we will have to consider the alternative manufacturing aspects,” Biswas added. The pharmacy department of Jadavpur University is doing research on drugs not only for Alzheimer’s but also diseases such as AIDS, cancer. Pulak Mukhopadhyay is one of the faculty members working on these medicinal plants. H...

Producing More Drugs For Lethal Diseases Is Not The Answer

...s have "growing national capacity for high-quality manufacturing to convert the inventions into health products for...market segmentation, and the engagement of R&D and manufacturing capacities in countries where the targeted disease is endemic." Source-Eurekalert RAS...

Chemistry Over The Counter: Is It Just What The Doctor Ordered?

...ation-wide movement on healthy practices, the drug manufacturing companies should resort to responsible advertising that is not driven by mere bottom line figures. The Silver Lining: The 2006 Drug Policy is equipped to enable financial resources to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), to set...

Tissue implant scandal heightens FDA’s concer

...FDA on August 18, due to "serious deficiencies" in manufacturing practices. A mismatch of the records with the official death certificates and lack of information on the donor’s history of cancer or drug use, making the tissue ineligible for transplantation, were some of the flaws reported in the FDA’s order. T...

Bird Flu Vaccine Developed in India Could be Available for 35 Paise per Dose

... of transportation. But it will be for the company manufacturing the vaccine to decide on the selling price," Pradhan told IANS. "We had the viruses collected during this year's outbreak and the cell lines taken five years ago," said Pradhan. "The vaccine can be used immediately after an outbreak to control the ...

Major Hurdle towards Development of Bird Flu Vaccine in India.

...virus to manufacture the vaccine. The process of manufacturing the vaccine involves housing the live H5N1 virus first, isolating it, manufacturing it in bulk before killing it to make the vaccine. Although scientists at the Bhopal lab, which is ...

Orissa to Send Coke, Pepsi Samples for Testing

... 11 soft drinks brands collected from 25 different manufacturing units of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo spread over 12 states. As a result, several states in India, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat, recently banned colas in schools, colleges and government departments. Orissa government ha...

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