South Africa To Make Available Two New Drugs To Fight The TB Outbreak
...ot. The money is there.” She further said that the price tag would be known only after the provincial governments decide on the amount required to stock hospitals and clinics. Dr. Tony Moll, who had detected the disease at King George Hospital in Durban, has asked for the two extra medications so as to ha...US, India Firms Develop New Cure for Black Fever
...ately $10 per lifetime cure, a significantly lower price than currently approved VL therapies. Since VL afflicts many people in remote villages and regions that lack a strong healthcare infrastructure, OneWorld Health will initiate a Phase IV pilot access programme in Bihar to facilitate the introduction...AIDS Sufferers Turn to British Doctor to Prolong their Survival
...ostly," says Guha. "Efforts are on to reduce the price also and make the drugs cost-effective," he says. The drugs used in second-line therapy are patented, produced and sold by mostly multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd recently said that the World Health Organisatio...India to Revive Exporting of Processed Chicken to Bhutan
...riggered an unprecedented rise and scarcity in the price of locally bred chicken and eggs. In July, the livestock department began negotiating with the Indian government to establish a restricted lift on the ban and resume controlled and monitored import. The department had sought a declaration of some...Amgen introduces Autoinjector For Treating Anemia
...SureClick autoinjector will be offered at the same price as the other administration methods. The Aranesp prefilled SureClick autoinjector, which was approved in the European Union in 2005 for patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia and anemia associated with CKD, has been delivered to approximately 500...Lives being Saved through Weight loss treatment
...t covered by Medicare doctors say you cannot put a price on your life. NL...Producing More Drugs For Lethal Diseases Is Not The Answer
...he poor through the strategic use of such tools as price tiering and 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?
...ing that the market is ridden with competition and price wars that have trickled into the society, giving rise to unscrupulous practices. Compounding Cures The drug stores are a conduit to enable prompt medicines, and pharmacists are vital associates of physicians. Zooming in on the role of pharmacist...‘Bird flu-free’ India resumes egg expors
... egg prices, according to Valsan.Recently, the egg price has increased from Rs. 1.20 to Rs 1.30 and is likely to increase by 20 paise per egg in a month’s time. India was exporting 3.6 lakh eggs every day, mainly to Gulf countries, prior to the utbreak....Viread To Retail In India For $1
...ad is to be made available in India at the special price of $1 (Rs 45) per tablet, according to the manufacturer Gilead.// This announcement was made on Sunday. Gilead has already entered into generic licensing deals with three Indian pharma majors - Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Hetero Drugs and Strides Arcol...Fuel Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests In Nepal
Fuel price hikes in Nepal have irked student organizations wh...ister. The population of Nepal is furious with the price hike, which has made fuel 11 to 25 percent costlier. The student wings of two of the leading partie...ACE Inhibitors For Vascular Disease Patients
...old to go to ACE inhibitors because there is a low price to pay for their benefits. They should be considered for all patients with atherosclerosis.” ...High-heels And Alcohol A Bad Combination
The fashion-conscious women are paying their price by breaking bones and spraining ankles. // This summer has seen women falling off their high-heeled sandals, causing several injuries. A doctor, Rupert Evans, of the accident and emergency unit at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, pointed o...IVF Price To Be Reduced If Women Opt For Egg Sharing Scheme
Women are to be offered reduced price in fertility treatment if they donate eggs for controversial cloning research.// The fertility watchdogs have given permission for a scheme for ‘egg sharing' so as to advance work on human cloning. They have announced that the women who agree for t...Cabinet Clears Purchase Preference Policy for Pharma PSUs
...diaries or purchase directly from them at notified price with a discount up to 35 per cent, Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. If no pharma CPSE is forthcoming to supply these medicines, the purchasing departments would be at liberty to buy from ot...Opposition against Amendments in the Intellectual Property Law
... it restricts the patient to buy drugs at a higher price only from the local market even if the same drug is available for as low as half the price in a neighboring country. These changes in the Intellectual Property law will lead to a drastic inc...Murky Relationships between Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies Exposed
...eaching consequences. Its primary effect is on the price of just about every drug in the market. The retail price is based on the wholesale price. The wholesale price is known to be the production cost plus operati...Expanding Price Control Detrimental for Pharma Companies: CII
Expressing concern over the proposal to expand price control from 74 to 354 drugs in the proposed natio...quo' on the current 74 bulk drugs under cost based price control and effective monitoring of the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) drugs to control...Zenotech Issues 20 Lakh Shares to Ranbaxy for Rs 20 Cr
...d the issue of 20 lakh equity shares of Rs 10 at a price of Rs 100 on a preferential basis to Ranbaxy, subject to shareholders' approval, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The board also approved the allotment of shares over 1.11 crore equity shares to the erstwhile shareholders of Credence ......available to around 2100 patients for a subsidized price rather than the current cost....