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Video: Price of Essential Medicines Increased, Govt Claims ‘Inflation’

Banjot Kaur 29/04/2022

Some 377 of these drugs fall under the ambit...

FILE PHOTO: An ampule of Gilead Sciences COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir is pictured during a news conference

Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs

Banjot Kaur 23/03/2022

A Parliamentary standing committee has produced a report highlighting...

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Government ‘Freezes’ Health Insurance Rates, Ignores Private Hospitals’ Protests

Anoo Bhuyan 12/06/2018

The government has fixed the insurance reimbursements for 1,354...

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Cost of Medical Treatment Exorbitant, Government Must Take Action, Says SC

The NPPA had recently said that non-scheduled drugs and...

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Pharma Regulator Revises Coronary Stent Rates a Year After 85% Cut in Cost

NPPA has increased the price of bare metal stents...

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Abbott Fails to Comply With India’s Directive on Safety but Withdraws Its Stents Anyway

Anoo Bhuyan 30/09/2017

Amid safety concerns in the US, EU, Australia and...

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Why Is the Draft Pharmaceutical Policy Shaking up India’s Drug Price Regulator?

S. Srinivasan 29/08/2017

The policy proposes changes in the role and function...