Medicines

49 medicine samples fail regulator’s quality tests

1 min read . 15 Jan 2020

NPPA raises ceiling price of 21 essential medicines by 50%

2 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Govt working on policy to allow OTC drugs sale on retail outlets

1 min read . 29 Oct 2019

The newly-constituted National List of Essential Medicines committee will decide on essential medicines and send the list to a second panel for deciding which ones are to be brought under price control.mint

Govt initiates new process to identify essential medicines

2 min read . 23 Jul 2019

The report is in complete contrast to the government’s own report of 2016. Photo: iStocke

Health ministry prepares rebuttal to USTR's counterfeit medicines report

2 min read . 05 May 2019

Aurobindo recalls nearly 5 lakh bottles of blood pressure lowering drug in US

1 min read . 27 Jan 2019

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal. If the Ola-Myra deal goes through, it will mark Ola’s entry into the burgeoning online medicine delivery sector, even as its cab-hailing business experiences a slowdown. Photo: Bloomberg

Ola in talks to invest in Myra Medicines, may even buy it

2 min read . 09 Jan 2019

New drug price cap exemptions pitch DoP against health ministry

3 min read . 06 Jan 2019

Domestic drugmakers and civil rights activists called the govt’s move a ‘pro-pharma’ step, with ‘no element of public interest’. Photo: Bloomberg

Govt move to exempt key foreign-made drugs from price control draws flak

2 min read . 05 Jan 2019

The revoking of the price cap on innovative medicines, including orphan drugs, gives Indian patients access to foreign medicines, says the government. Photo: iStocke

Govt removes price cap on innovative drugs for first 5 years

1 min read . 04 Jan 2019

The e-pharmacy market has the potential of growing to more than $1 billion. However, online pharmacies now comprise a mere 1% of overall medicine sales. Photo: Mint

Online medicine startups in funding frenzy as sector consolidates

3 min read . 18 Dec 2018

The legal framework for pharmacies in India is derived from the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, the Drugs and Cosmetics Rule, 1945, and the Pharmacy Act, 1948.

Madras HC refuses to vacate stay on online drug sales

1 min read . 17 Dec 2018

Opinion | Putting the public back in public health

4 min read . 12 Dec 2018

Opinion | Manufacturing drugs on demand

4 min read . 12 Dec 2018

Celiac disease affects as many as eight million people in India. Photo: Mint

Medicines may soon have gluten labelling on packaging

2 min read . 28 Nov 2018

The API manufacturing units in China have been shut down due to environmental concerns. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Pharma lobby for hiking cost of drugs under govt price control

2 min read . 12 Nov 2018

The number of funding rounds in health-tech startups fell from 135 in 2016 and 130 in 2017 to 80 so far in 2018. Photo: iStockphoto

Health-tech startup funding hits all-time high of $510 million in 2018

2 min read . 12 Nov 2018

India is one of the few countries where J&J offers the TB drug free of cost under a conditional access programme. Photo: Reuters (Reuters)

India seen slow in procuring J&J’s TB drug Bedaquiline

2 min read . 06 Nov 2018

Set up in 1997, the NPPA has been entrusted with the task of fixation/revision of prices of pharma products, enforcement of provisions of DPCO and monitoring of prices of controlled and decontrolled drugs. Photo: Mint

NPPA fixes retail price of 68 drug formulations

1 min read . 02 Nov 2018

Branded generics dominate drug market: CCI

2 min read . 25 Oct 2018