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"States Have Failed...": Supreme Court On Affordable Drugs, Medical Equipment
State governments have failed in ensuring affordable medical care and infrastructure, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, offering scathing criticism of states' failure to deliver reasonably-priced medicines, particularly in case of essential drugs.
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Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner
Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels.
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Cancer Cases Rising, Prices Of Essential Medicines Kept In Check: Health Minister
The government makes all efforts to ensure affordable and accessible treatment is available for cancer patients amid a rise in cases in India, Health Minister JP Nadda said today.
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Budget 2024: What Is Cheaper, What Is Costlier?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a major reduction in customs duty on cancer medicines and mobile phones, which will significantly bring down their prices in the retail market.
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Government Slashes Prices Of 41 Medicines, Including Those For Diabetes, Heart Ailments
The government has reduced the prices of 41 commonly used medicines and six formulations used to treat diseases such as diabetes, heart and liver ailments.
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Reports Claiming Big Hike In Medicine Prices Are False, Misleading: Centre
The government dismissed the media reports claiming that medicine prices will witness a significant hike by up to 12 per cent from April 2024 and called them false, misleading and malicious.
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Pak Faces Shortage Of Life-Saving Drugs Due To Weakening Currency: Reports
Pakistan's drug regulatory authority's controversial pricing policy and the depreciating local currency have led to an acute shortage of imported and life-saving medicines in the debt-ridden country, media reports said on Monday.
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India Sent Medicine To 150 Countries During Covid Crisis: Health Minister
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that India sent medicines to 150 countries during covid crisis without increasing the price and compromising on the quality of the medicines.
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Desperate China Families Turn To Black Market For Covid Medicines
Desperate families searching for critical Covid-19 medication in China, faced with bare pharmacy shelves and an explosion of cases, are being driven into murky online marketplaces rife with price gouging and fraud.
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Several Anti-Cancer Drugs, Antibiotics, Now "Essential Medicines", To Be Cheaper
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines will now become more affordable as they are among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines, with the government saying this will reduce "patients' out-of-pocket expenditure".
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"Should I Feed My Kids Or Should I Kill Them?": Pak Woman Complains About Price Rise
Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Bail Granted To Men For Hoarding, Selling Covid Medicines At High Prices
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to four men, who were arrested for allegedly hoarding and selling at exorbitant rates life-saving medicines to treat COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic.
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Cadila Healthcare Gains On Agreement To Market Black Fungus Drug
Zydus Cadila signed a license supply and commercialization agreement to commercialize AmphoTLC (Amphotericin B Liposome for Injection 50mg) in India.
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Lupin Launches Its Version Of Favipiravir Drug To Treat COVID-19
Lupin's Covihalt will be available as 200 mg tablets in the form of a strip of 10 tablets, and priced at Rs 49 per tablet
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Cipla Gets Regulatory Nod To Make Gilead's COVID-19 Drug, Shares Hit Record High
Cipla shares surged over 9% after it got an approval from DCGI to manufacture and market generic COVID-19 drug Remdesivir.
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"States Have Failed...": Supreme Court On Affordable Drugs, Medical Equipment
State governments have failed in ensuring affordable medical care and infrastructure, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, offering scathing criticism of states' failure to deliver reasonably-priced medicines, particularly in case of essential drugs.
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Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner
Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels.
-
Cancer Cases Rising, Prices Of Essential Medicines Kept In Check: Health Minister
The government makes all efforts to ensure affordable and accessible treatment is available for cancer patients amid a rise in cases in India, Health Minister JP Nadda said today.
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Budget 2024: What Is Cheaper, What Is Costlier?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a major reduction in customs duty on cancer medicines and mobile phones, which will significantly bring down their prices in the retail market.
-
Government Slashes Prices Of 41 Medicines, Including Those For Diabetes, Heart Ailments
The government has reduced the prices of 41 commonly used medicines and six formulations used to treat diseases such as diabetes, heart and liver ailments.
-
Reports Claiming Big Hike In Medicine Prices Are False, Misleading: Centre
The government dismissed the media reports claiming that medicine prices will witness a significant hike by up to 12 per cent from April 2024 and called them false, misleading and malicious.
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Pak Faces Shortage Of Life-Saving Drugs Due To Weakening Currency: Reports
Pakistan's drug regulatory authority's controversial pricing policy and the depreciating local currency have led to an acute shortage of imported and life-saving medicines in the debt-ridden country, media reports said on Monday.
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India Sent Medicine To 150 Countries During Covid Crisis: Health Minister
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that India sent medicines to 150 countries during covid crisis without increasing the price and compromising on the quality of the medicines.
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Desperate China Families Turn To Black Market For Covid Medicines
Desperate families searching for critical Covid-19 medication in China, faced with bare pharmacy shelves and an explosion of cases, are being driven into murky online marketplaces rife with price gouging and fraud.
-
Several Anti-Cancer Drugs, Antibiotics, Now "Essential Medicines", To Be Cheaper
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines will now become more affordable as they are among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines, with the government saying this will reduce "patients' out-of-pocket expenditure".
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"Should I Feed My Kids Or Should I Kill Them?": Pak Woman Complains About Price Rise
Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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Bail Granted To Men For Hoarding, Selling Covid Medicines At High Prices
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to four men, who were arrested for allegedly hoarding and selling at exorbitant rates life-saving medicines to treat COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic.
-
Cadila Healthcare Gains On Agreement To Market Black Fungus Drug
Zydus Cadila signed a license supply and commercialization agreement to commercialize AmphoTLC (Amphotericin B Liposome for Injection 50mg) in India.
-
Lupin Launches Its Version Of Favipiravir Drug To Treat COVID-19
Lupin's Covihalt will be available as 200 mg tablets in the form of a strip of 10 tablets, and priced at Rs 49 per tablet
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Cipla Gets Regulatory Nod To Make Gilead's COVID-19 Drug, Shares Hit Record High
Cipla shares surged over 9% after it got an approval from DCGI to manufacture and market generic COVID-19 drug Remdesivir.
