Drug Prices in India to be Monitored - NPPA to Tie up with ORG
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has been working// on bringing down the prices of 25 non-scheduled formulation packs through negotiations with the manufacturers and has finally succeeded. According to NPPA most of the companies in question voluntarily agreed to bring about a pr...Genetics Influence Blood Pressure Medications
...widely by doctors. The new study focused on the nppa (atrial natriuretic precursor A) gene, which is in... see if people with hypertension and two different nppa genotypes (known as nppa G664A and...New Drugs Prices Control Order to Be Issued After Finalisation of New Pharmaceutical Policy
...roposed in the new draft National Pharmaceutical Policy, 2006 that a separate Drugs (Price Regulation and Control) Act may be introduced to strengthen nppa for effective monitoring and enforcement of Drug Prices. This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilzers, Sh...NPIL withdraws Parkinson’s dru
...ng Authority (NPPA) to reconsider its price revision. However, according to nppa sources the cased was already ‘‘pending review’’ with the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers. According to nppa sources the 10 tablet strips came under the price control which the company...Common gene variants increase risk of hypertension, may lead to new therapies
...nts, the investigators focused on two genes called nppa and NPPB that are involved in the production of at...of dietary sodium. Animals in which both copies of nppa have been knocked out are hypertensive, and even t...led single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the nppa and NPPB genes, looking for any correlation with l...