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