Drug Companies

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The US Food and Drug Administration has allowed billionaire Elon Musk's Neuralink to implant its brain chip in a second person after the company offered fixes to a problem that occurred in the first patient, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Two drug-addict men allegedly stabbed to death a 30-year-old private company employee over an altercation in the wee hours on Tuesday in Gurugram, said police.

Elon Musk said that he does not think drug usage will impact his companies, government contracts or investor relations.

Indian pharmaceutical companies must meet new manufacturing standards this year, according to a government notification released on Saturday, although small companies have asked for a delay, citing their debt load.

The European Union's drugs regulator has asked pharma companies including Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. for more information as it reviews the potential risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines.

Aided by government agencies, Indian drug companies have, in just one year, managed to develop medicines for four rare diseases that cut down their annual cost of treatment by as much as 100 times.

The company is set to conduct clinical trials on healthy adults in July 2024 to verify the safety of its new drug.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) on Thursday put on hold the regulations that make it mandatory for doctors to prescribe generic drugs and bar them from accepting gifts from pharma companies or endorsing any drug brands.

The all-powerful Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Tuesday decided to impose a 28 per cent tax on the turnover of online gaming companies, horse racing and casinos, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted approvals to two companies selling chicken grown from animal cells.

71 companies have been issued show-cause notices following concerns about the deaths linked to India-made syrups, and 18 of them have been asked to shut shop, the minister told news agency PTI.

Elon Musk expects his brain-chip startup Neuralink to start its first human trial this year, he said on Friday. While Musk didn't specify how many patients his company would implant or for how long, "it's looking like the first case will be later this year," said Musk.

Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the green light to its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.

Licenses of 18 pharma companies have been cancelled and they have been asked to stop manufacturing, sources in the Union Health ministry have told NDTV. Show cause notices have been issued to 26 pharma companies, sources said.

AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) users will be able to use the company's truly wireless stereo (TWS) headset as a hearing aid in the future, as Apple has now received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enable the feature. An update will also bring support for a new hearing test, which will generate an audio profile for the heari...

The US Food and Drug Administration has allowed billionaire Elon Musk's Neuralink to implant its brain chip in a second person after the company offered fixes to a problem that occurred in the first patient, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Two drug-addict men allegedly stabbed to death a 30-year-old private company employee over an altercation in the wee hours on Tuesday in Gurugram, said police.

Elon Musk said that he does not think drug usage will impact his companies, government contracts or investor relations.

Indian pharmaceutical companies must meet new manufacturing standards this year, according to a government notification released on Saturday, although small companies have asked for a delay, citing their debt load.

The European Union's drugs regulator has asked pharma companies including Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. for more information as it reviews the potential risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines.

Aided by government agencies, Indian drug companies have, in just one year, managed to develop medicines for four rare diseases that cut down their annual cost of treatment by as much as 100 times.

The company is set to conduct clinical trials on healthy adults in July 2024 to verify the safety of its new drug.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) on Thursday put on hold the regulations that make it mandatory for doctors to prescribe generic drugs and bar them from accepting gifts from pharma companies or endorsing any drug brands.

The all-powerful Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Tuesday decided to impose a 28 per cent tax on the turnover of online gaming companies, horse racing and casinos, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted approvals to two companies selling chicken grown from animal cells.

71 companies have been issued show-cause notices following concerns about the deaths linked to India-made syrups, and 18 of them have been asked to shut shop, the minister told news agency PTI.

Elon Musk expects his brain-chip startup Neuralink to start its first human trial this year, he said on Friday. While Musk didn't specify how many patients his company would implant or for how long, "it's looking like the first case will be later this year," said Musk.

Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the green light to its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.

Licenses of 18 pharma companies have been cancelled and they have been asked to stop manufacturing, sources in the Union Health ministry have told NDTV. Show cause notices have been issued to 26 pharma companies, sources said.