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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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Latest On The Spread Of The Coronavirus Around The World
A cheap and widely used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save the lives of COVID-19 patients
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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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Two Indian Generics Makers End Battle to Copy Drugs Amid Patent Debate
Two Indian drug makers said they had given up a battle to copy drugs developed by Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, blaming a lack of government support for cheap generics and pressure from Big Pharma.
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India Agreed to Not Issue 'Compulsory' Drug Licences: US Industry Body
The Indian government has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big Western drug makers, a US business advocacy group said.
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Drug Industry Says US-Led Trade Deal to Raise Prices
Leaders of India's $15 billion pharmaceuticals industry, a major supplier of affordable generics to the world, have joined public health activists in criticising a new US-led trade deal they say will delay the arrival of new cheap drugs.
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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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Bayer Fails to Block Generic Cancer Drug in Supreme Court
German drug maker Bayer has failed in a last-ditch attempt to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India, after the Supreme Court ruled against it on Friday.
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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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Latest On The Spread Of The Coronavirus Around The World
A cheap and widely used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save the lives of COVID-19 patients
-
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
-
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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Two Indian Generics Makers End Battle to Copy Drugs Amid Patent Debate
Two Indian drug makers said they had given up a battle to copy drugs developed by Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, blaming a lack of government support for cheap generics and pressure from Big Pharma.
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India Agreed to Not Issue 'Compulsory' Drug Licences: US Industry Body
The Indian government has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big Western drug makers, a US business advocacy group said.
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Drug Industry Says US-Led Trade Deal to Raise Prices
Leaders of India's $15 billion pharmaceuticals industry, a major supplier of affordable generics to the world, have joined public health activists in criticising a new US-led trade deal they say will delay the arrival of new cheap drugs.
-
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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Bayer Fails to Block Generic Cancer Drug in Supreme Court
German drug maker Bayer has failed in a last-ditch attempt to block the sale of a cheap generic version of its cancer drug Nexavar in India, after the Supreme Court ruled against it on Friday.
