-The Telegraph New Delhi: A government agency has blocked its own pledge to impose price control on more medicines by withdrawing guidelines that it had used in July this year to cap prices of drugs used to treat diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has withdrawn the guidelines issued under Paragraph 19 of the Drug Price Control Order that it had used in July this year to cap...
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NPPA caps prices of 43 drug formulation packs
-PTI The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has capped the prices of 43 formulation packs including drugs such as the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, BCG Vaccine and the anti-diabetic metformin. "The prices have been fixed / revised in respect of 43 formulation packs, both ceiling and retail price packs, under DPCO, 2013," NPPA said. According to the drug price regulator the manufacturers selling the 43 drugs at maximum retail price higher than the ceiling price...
More »Health Minister wants child death reduction targets achieved before schedule
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has said that the government is confident of reducing the newborn (birth to 28 days) mortality rate to single digit long before the 2030 target date. The present death rate is 29 per 1,000 live births. For this are required simple, cost-effective interventions before and immediately after delivery. Inaugurating the Indian Newborn Action Plan (INAP) here today,...
More »5,000 govt scientists to teach in schools, colleges
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government has decided to make it mandatory for over 5,000 scientists, working in different central agencies including the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), to undertake 12 hours of lecture classes in an academic year in public-funded schools and colleges across the country. Announcing the decision, Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh said it would be "mandatory" for the scientists to formally take...
More »Pentavalent Vaccine in immunisation programme -M Sai Gopal
-The Hindu Hyderabad: ‘It is a long-felt need and a great boon for children'. Senior paediatricians also pointed out that the government should seriously think about introducing MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella), Typhoid and Rota virus Vaccine. It is said better late than never! From this October, health authorities will finally roll out pentavalent Vaccine in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh under the National Immunisation Programme. This one single Vaccine shot will provide...
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