Drug trafficking takes courier route; 2 held in Odisha
Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after a raid at a courier delivery unit, police said.
Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after a raid at a courier delivery unit, police said.
The report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company, showed that anti-obesity medications are the industry trend that will have the greatest impact in the next 12 months.
Spurious drugs worth Rs 6.60 crore was seized by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), East Zone, and the Drugs Control Directorate, West Bengal from a whole premises in Kolkata.
The Central Drugs Laboratories identified 41 drug samples to be not of standard quality (NSQ), while State Drugs Testing Laboratories also found 70 drugs samples not of standard quality during the month of November, said Union Health Ministry on Friday.
The Delhi Customs said on Tuesday that a Brazilian national was apprehended for smuggling cocaine in the form of capsules inside his stomach at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Bolpur Police has started a probe after lodging two separate cases under the narcotics act.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has introduced comprehensive regulations for medical devices to align the country's regulatory framework with globally accepted standards.
India, long regarded as the pharmacy of the world, faces yet another challenge as its drug regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), has flagged over 50 widely used drugs as substandard or counterfeit.
A combination of drugs can help reduce symptoms of agitated delirium, a common end-of-life condition for patients with advanced cancers, according to a new study.
India has dispatched a consignment of approximately 1400 kgs of anti-cancer drugs to Syria in humanitarian assistance, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
