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Health ministry backs call for including all essential drugs under DPCO

New Delhi, 21 Aug: The growing outcry for including all essential medicines under the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) got a vital boost with the Health Ministry supporting the claim and urging the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) to consider the revision of DPCO.

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Heat on doctors taking pharma sops

NEW DELHI, 18 AUG: The government is all set to crack the whip on doctors found prescribing medicines of drug companies, in return of gifts or favours. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday that the ministry has received several complaints on this unholy nexus, and the matter has been referred to the Medical Council of India (MCI). According to the MCI, it received 702 such complaints in 2011-12 of which 343 have been referred to state medical councils.

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Maharashtra FDA to set up 3 new drug testing labs at Thane, Nagpur and Pune at a cost of Rs.900-cr

Mumbai, 14 Aug: The Maharashtra Food Drugs and Administration (FDA) will establish three new drug testing laboratories at Thane, Nagpur and Pune to test the quality standards of the pharmaceutical and food products manufactured in the state. The total cost of establishing these laboratories is estimated at Rs.900 crore. Currently FDA has only two drug testing laboratories one at Mumbai and another at Aurangabad. Sources from FDA said that the drug testing laboratory located at Mumbai is the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) and has a capacity to conduct 8000 sample tests per annum.

Recovery in overcharging cases picks up as NPPA sends more notices

New Delhi, 11 Aug: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has issued notices on the grounds of overcharging in 847 cases so far to claim a total amount of Rs. 2462.83 crore, showing an upward trend in the number of fresh cases and recovery in the recent past. During the last five months till the end of July, the price monitoring agency sent notices in 31 cases to recover an amount of Rs.5.93 crore. During the last one year time, it sent 35 cases.

Same drug sold in wide price b(r)and

Mumbai, 9 Aug: Every year 3.2% of Indians fall below the poverty line because of high medical bills. This was revealed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It states that almost 70% of Indians spend their entire income on health care and purchasing medicines. Medicines, which comprise 15% to 75% of the total health care costs, are a key concern due to the vast difference in pricing between brands of the same medicine and the low awareness among consumers. Consider this.Two brands of similar sized ready-to-cook noodle pack costs Rs10. Different brands of 200 ml mango juice sell at the same rate of Rs12. But the price difference between brands of an antibiotic of the same composition can be as wide as Rs60 or even a whopping Rs6,800 when it comes to brands of the same cancer medicine.

HIV Infections Declined by 56% During the Last Decade in India

New Delhi, 13 Aug (PIB): HIV infections have declined by 56% during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country. This was stated by Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Health and Family Welfare at the International HIV Vaccine Symposium in New Delhi today. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Shri Azad said that HIV was detected in India over 25 years ago. Valuable knowledge and experience has been accumulated as a result of extensive interventions for control of the epidemic and it seems to be stabilizing now. India is among the few countries which have made significant reductions in HIV infections.

LIST OF APPROVED DRUG FROM 1/1/12 TO TILL DATE

LIST OF APPROVED DRUG FROM 01-01-2012 to Till Date

Sl No	Name of Drug	Indication	Date of issue
1.	Etravirine Tablet 100mg	In combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in antiretroviral treatment-experienced adult patients who have evidence of viral replication and HIV-1 strains resistant to an NNRTI and other antiretroviral agents.                                                 It should be used only in situations where other treatments have failed or cannot be used because of side effects.

Drug watchdog to target misbranding pharmas

New Delhi, 7 Aug: The drug watchdog, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), is planning to send notices to the state drug controllers against firms that often take out price-controlled active ingredients from their popular formulations but retain the brand name. “We cannot approach the companies directly as drug ingredients and approval is not under our mandate. We will send notices to the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and state drug controllers who have the authority to look into the quality of medicines,” said a senior official at the NPPA. “We are mulling over hiring field staff to collect drug samples from the local medical stores to check if the ingredients have been tweaked without informing us.”

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