Cheap Medicines

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.

India has underlined the need for the global community to chart out long-term strategies and roadmaps to deal with future pandemics and their impacts, emphasising that barriers to equitable access to affordable medicines and new technologies must be addressed.

Two people were arrested in Mumbai's Andheri area for allegedly operating a fake call centre that targeted United States nationals on the pretext of selling cheap medicines online, police said on Monday.

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.

Aam Aadmi Party today demanded cheap power, free medicines and water for the people of BJP- ruled Madhya Pradesh on the lines of facilities provided by the party government in Delhi.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that can screen, detect and confirm hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections from blood or urine samples.

On Friday, the US Chamber of Commerce called on Washington to ratchet up pressure on India over intellectual property rights, a move that could help prevent Indian companies from producing cheap generic versions of medicines still under patent protection.

The US Chamber of Commerce on Friday called on the government to ratchet up pressure on India over intellectual property rights, in a move that could help prevent Indian companies from producing cheap generic versions of medicines still under patent protection.

In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a cheap and easy way to reprogramme mature cells from mice back into an embryonic-like state that allowed them to generate many types of tissue.

The EU claims Ranbaxy and other international pharmaceutical companies blocked the delivery of cheap drugs to the EU market, despite an agreement to deliver. Also, European regulators have estimated that consumers are paying up to 20 per cent more for medicines in some cases.

India's top drugmakers, among the world's biggest producers of cheap generic medicines, are looking beyond their own shores to generate revenue, seeking to profit from big-selling drugs going off-patent this year in the lucrative U.S. market.

A cheap three-in-one generic AIDS pill from India is just as good as more expensive branded medicines and should be widely used in developing countries.

Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.

GlaxoSmithKline are on the verge of developing a cheap anti-malarial drug, LAPDAP, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), for use in the under-developed countries. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the female anopheles mosquito, and is still rampant in Africa and India. Though it is eminently treatable, the medicines m...

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.

India has underlined the need for the global community to chart out long-term strategies and roadmaps to deal with future pandemics and their impacts, emphasising that barriers to equitable access to affordable medicines and new technologies must be addressed.

Two people were arrested in Mumbai's Andheri area for allegedly operating a fake call centre that targeted United States nationals on the pretext of selling cheap medicines online, police said on Monday.

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.

Aam Aadmi Party today demanded cheap power, free medicines and water for the people of BJP- ruled Madhya Pradesh on the lines of facilities provided by the party government in Delhi.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that can screen, detect and confirm hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections from blood or urine samples.

On Friday, the US Chamber of Commerce called on Washington to ratchet up pressure on India over intellectual property rights, a move that could help prevent Indian companies from producing cheap generic versions of medicines still under patent protection.

The US Chamber of Commerce on Friday called on the government to ratchet up pressure on India over intellectual property rights, in a move that could help prevent Indian companies from producing cheap generic versions of medicines still under patent protection.

In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a cheap and easy way to reprogramme mature cells from mice back into an embryonic-like state that allowed them to generate many types of tissue.

The EU claims Ranbaxy and other international pharmaceutical companies blocked the delivery of cheap drugs to the EU market, despite an agreement to deliver. Also, European regulators have estimated that consumers are paying up to 20 per cent more for medicines in some cases.

India's top drugmakers, among the world's biggest producers of cheap generic medicines, are looking beyond their own shores to generate revenue, seeking to profit from big-selling drugs going off-patent this year in the lucrative U.S. market.

A cheap three-in-one generic AIDS pill from India is just as good as more expensive branded medicines and should be widely used in developing countries.

Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.

GlaxoSmithKline are on the verge of developing a cheap anti-malarial drug, LAPDAP, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), for use in the under-developed countries. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the female anopheles mosquito, and is still rampant in Africa and India. Though it is eminently treatable, the medicines m...