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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu during a visit to the Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering & Technology (CIPET), in Vijayawada.

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A medic checks the temperature of ice packs in a deep freezer at a COVID-19 vaccine storage facility in Ahmedabad.

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A worker arranges BCG vaccine in a box as the newly established Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) facility rolled out the first batch of 4.5 lakh doses of the vaccines for...

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Haryana drug control authorities, along with local police, busted an international drug cartel trying to smuggle out COVID-19 and cancer treatment drugs to Iraq through special eva...

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Haryana drug control authorities, along with local police, busted an international drug cartel trying to smuggle out COVID-19 and cancer treatment drugs to Iraq through special eva...

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A cashier counts money behind bottles of hand sanitizers at a medical supply shop in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal along with state Finance, Health and PWD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma distribute free medication during the launch of Free Drugs Scheme for ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits a pharmacy during his trip to St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Le Jeune Roi

There is an art to sitting on a throne. Adar Poonawalla, 36, started working for the Serum Institute of India, the vaccine and drug manufacturing empire of his father Cyrus, at...

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A generic medicine shop in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan

Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
Dr Parvinder Singh (1943-1999) Ranbaxy
Y.K. Hamied, CIPLA

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Dilip Shanghvi, Sun Pharma

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People crowd at a chemist shop as the Prime minister ordered to ban 500 and 1000 rupees notes as part of NDA Govt’s fight against black money and corruption, in New Delhi.

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In this file photo, Phil Blake, President, Bayer Corporation, poses for The Associated Press in Whippany, N.J. "I hope that over the next few years, people will learn that Bayer is...
Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, center, leaves court with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman in New York. Shkreli, who has become the poster child of pharmaceutical-indu...

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Keeper Of Flocks Dr K. Anand Kumar at one of IIL’s labs in Hyderabad

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Impartial? Dr Tu Youyou, who won the Nobel prize for medicine

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Tried And Tested

India is a favoured destination for human clinical trials. Unfortunately, poor and illiterate people are exploited as norms are flouted with impunity.

Jan 14, 2021

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
They Took The Shot For You

It takes courage and conviction to be a human test case for an unknown virus and an unproven cure

Jan 14, 2021

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
Is Your Shot Real Or Plain Water?

India is yet to adopt protocols for securing potential coronavirus vaccines from counterfeiters

Dec 16, 2020

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
Placebo Effect

As new trials show repurposed drugs are useless for Covid, should India rethink its treatment protocols?

Nov 11, 2020

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
The NEWS

In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week

Nov 11, 2020

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‘I’ Of The Storm

Self-reliance was the very seed that gave us Dabur, writes chairman Amit Burman. In the 19th c, when disease was rife but medicine scarce, his forebear took Ayurveda to the masses.

Oct 01, 2020

| Amit Burman
The RX Factor

Medicine misuse or abuse of prescription drugs like opioids is alarmingly huge, unregulated and growing

Sep 17, 2020

| Ajay Sukumaran
Immunology Sales Pitch

Haldi milk, gilory juice, tulsi tea, vitamin C chewies—there’s more than you can chew in the immunity booster market

Sep 17, 2020

| Lachmi Deb Roy
Harnessing Tech In Time Of Covid: Undercurrents Of Human Ingenuity Surfaced To Fight The Pandemic

As the world flails around before COVID-19, the superstructure of human scientific ingenuity girds its loins to beat back the scourge

Apr 24, 2020

| Dinesh Singh
Rumours Of Panaceas For COVID-19 Abound, But Some Might Do More Harm Than Good

Across the world, researchers are testing several antiviral drugs for their efficacy in treating COVID-19. So far, no therapeutic drugs have proven to be effective against the novel coronavirus.

Mar 27, 2020

| Ajay Sukumaran
Riches To Rags: How Billionaire Ranbaxy Brothers Malvinder And Shivinder Singh Landed In Jail

The Ranbaxy brothers -- Malvinder and Shivinder Singh -- systematically and deliberately siphoned off huge sums, estimated at Rs 10,000 crore. Most of the money was used to buy real estate

Oct 17, 2019

| Alam Srinivas
Your Crocin And Betadine May Be Spurious -- Counterfeit Drugs Market Leaves Regulators In A Spin

Absence of a scientific investigation model is a major reason to estimate the extent of substandard drugs in the country

Oct 11, 2019

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma

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Covid-19 Vaccine By Oxford-AstraZeneca 'Effective', Phase 3 Trials Show

India is expected to receive 100 Million AstraZenaca vaccine shots by next month, reports claim

Nov 23, 2020

| Associated Press (AP)
Antiviral Remdesivir Becomes First FDA Approved Drug To Treat COVID-19

Remdesivir works by inhibiting a substance the virus uses to make copies of itself.

Oct 23, 2020

| Associated Press (AP)
Trump Identifies India Along With 20 Other Nations As Major Illicit Drug-Producing Countries

US President Donald Trump said countries such as Afghanistan, India, The Bahamas, Belize, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic among others are a major drug transit or illicit drug producing nations.

Sep 17, 2020

| PTI
We Should Call Traditional Medicine The Original Medicine: Dr Apurve Mehra

Dr Apurve Mehra, founder of Biogetica, tells Outlook that every system of medicine -- traditional or allopathy -- has its strengths and that the debate around which of the two is more efficient is pointless.

Aug 24, 2020

| Lola Nayar
Zydus Cadila Launches Generic Version Of Remdesivir At Rs 2,800 Per Vial In India

The company said the drug will be made available across India through the group’s distribution chain reaching out to government and private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.

Aug 13, 2020

| PTI
Use Of Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs Linked To Lower Death Rate In Covid-19 Patients: Study

The research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, also showed that mortality risk and other negative outcomes were not increased by combination therapy consisting of statins and blood pressure-lowering drugs called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs).

Jun 25, 2020

| PTI
Chemists Claim Shortage of Essential Medicines Due To Hoarding & Panic Buying

In a state like Punjab, where the government has enforced strict curfew norms because of a huge NRI population, chemists are not allowed to open shops and only home delivery of medicines is allowed.

Mar 31, 2020

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
Coronavirus Lockdown: In Many Parts Of India, Insulin And Other Refrigerated Medicine Short In Supply

Pharmacist associations say cancellation of domestic flights - both cargo and passenger - has affected the supply of refrigerated medicines in many parts.

Mar 28, 2020

| Jeevan Prakash Sharma
Ex-Ranbaxy Promoters Malvinder Singh, Shivinder Singh Sent to 4-Day Custody

Malvinder Singh, Shivinder Singh and three others were arrested for allegedly misappropriating funds of Religare Finvest Ltd

Oct 11, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Ranbaxy And The Culture Of Jugaad: What Brought A Leading Company Down

With the arrest of Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh on a complaint by Religare Fininvest, the spotlight has once again fallen on the dealings by the two brothers.

Oct 10, 2019

| Katherine Eban