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Business News > Mint Authors > Priyanka Pulla

Priyanka Pulla

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ARTICLES BY PRIYANKA PULLA

The KFD is deadly. But the regulator slept as the jab to protect against it lost potency. Illustration: Durga/Mint

The ugly truth about a vaccine that didn’t work

23 min read . 02 Dec 2022

A nurse fills up syringes with the Covid-19 vaccines (REUTERS)

NIV’s troubling role in the KFD vaccine saga

8 min read . 03 Nov 2022

The starting point of this process is a strain of the KFD virus, which the NIV isolated from Shivamogga in 1957 (Photo: Reuters)

How the KFD vaccine is made and tested

5 min read . 03 Nov 2022

CDSCO’s oversight plays a critical role in ensuring vaccine quality and safety (Photo: AP)

The mystery of missing CDSCO scrutiny

9 min read . 03 Nov 2022

Gambian officials had first noticed unexplained deaths, following acute kidney injury, in July 2022. Photo: AFP

Answered: Six questions about cough syrup deaths linked to Haryana firm

10 min read . 13 Oct 2022

The case highlights the failures of the Indian drug regulatory system in acting fast against errant manufacturers (Photo: iStock)

How the regulator failed to bring killer cough syrup maker to task

4 min read . 05 Apr 2022

Despite the obvious link between Zydus Cadila’s batches of the seemingly-tainted Remdesivir drug and the life-threatening adverse events, few state drug regulators responded as they were supposed to. (Photo: PTI)

The dangerous failure to stop tainted remdesivir

16 min read . 23 Dec 2021

What are the quality specifications that drug makers need to follow

1 min read . 23 Dec 2021

India has the legal provision to direct drug manufacturers to recall substandard drugs, but such provisions sometimes remain unenforced

How weak drug laws are costing lives

20 min read . 28 Sep 2021

The contaminated drugs include ranitidine, two tuberculosis drugs called rifampin and rifapentin, two diabetes drugs called metformin and pioglitazone, and several of the so-called sartan group of blood pressure drugs such as valsartan, losartan and irbesartan. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Drugs with carcinogenic toxins: banned elsewhere, sold in India

17 min read . 16 Aug 2021

The US Pharmacopoeia has outlined methods to detect at least seven types of nitrosamines in sartans. (Photo: HT)

Why regulating nitrosamines in India will prove challenging

6 min read . 15 Aug 2021

A doctor operates on a mucormycosis patient at a hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: HT)

How India got blindsided by a deadly mucormycosis outbreak

19 min read . 20 Jul 2021

A doctor examines a man who is suffering from Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus (Photo: Reuters)

Decoding the link between covid and mucormycosis

6 min read . 20 Jul 2021

Based on the report, Brazil suspended its order of 20 million Covaxin doses from Bharat Biotech (AFP)

How Covaxin became a victim of vaccine triumphalism

29 min read . 27 May 2021

The AstraZeneca vaccine and Covishield use an adenovirus that causes common cold in chimpanzees (AFP)

How mRNA and adenovirus vector vaccines work

1 min read . 26 May 2021

Finding the right carbon balance

5 min read . 27 Jun 2011

Stepping in to fill a vacuum

4 min read . 29 May 2011

Talent pool: The Infosys campus in Bangalore.

Process-driven succession

1 min read . 18 Apr 2011

Controversial chemical: A file photo of a farmer spraying insecticide in his field. India is the world’s largest consumer of endosulfan.

Endosulfan ban: no clear battle lines drawn

7 min read . 30 Mar 2011

Teaching the art of philanthropy

5 min read . 13 Mar 2011