Drug Controller General of India

FILE PHOTO: An employee in personal protective equipment (PPE) removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune

Petition in Supreme Court Seeks Data From Covaxin, Covishield Clinical Trials

V. Venkatesan 17/05/2021

Jacob Puliyel has submitted that there is no reason...

Healthcare workers transfer the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inside a hospital premises in Kolkata

India’s Drug Regulator Has Approved DRDO’s New COVID Drug on Missing Evidence

Ronak Borana 12/05/2021

Because its trials were so poorly designed and reported,...

Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi

DCGI Approves Virafin for Moderate COVID. Where’s the Evidence It Works?

Ronak Borana 24/04/2021

Virafin's phase 2 trial has several methodological and reporting...

Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

India to Fast-Track Approvals for Foreign-Produced COVID-19 Vaccines

The Wire Staff 13/04/2021

It's not clear which provision of the 2019 Rules...

FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist holds a vial of Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus in a department store in Moscow, Russia

COVID-19: Drug Controller General of India Approves Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine

Nigam Prusty and Krishna N. Das 13/04/2021

Sputnik V, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, has proved 91.6%...

FILE PHOTO: A health official draws a dose of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Colombo

India Extends Shelf Life of Covishield Doses From Six Months To Nine

Neha Arora and Krishna N. Das 30/03/2021

The approval could help health authorities minimise vaccine wastage...

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How Do You Catch Mistakes in a Clinical Trial? An Ethics Expert Explains.

Shreya Dasgupta 28/03/2021

Photo: Dan Asaki/Unsplash. Bengaluru: As the world scrambled to...