145 drugs samples identified as not of standard quality in Feb
As many as 145 drugs samples were identified as not of standard quality (NSQ) during the month of February.
As many as 145 drugs samples were identified as not of standard quality (NSQ) during the month of February.
Three people, including two Thailand nationals, were apprehended in two separate cases of smuggling of gold and drugs at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Customs officials said on Thursday.
Afghan police discovered more than 50 kg of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in western Afghanistan Nimroz province, the provincial director for counter-narcotics department Mawlawi Faiz Mohammad Faizani said Friday.
Officials of the West Bengal Directorate of Drug Control (WBDDC) along with police seized spurious drugs worth around Rs 17 lakh from a godown, storing medicines in the Amta police station area of Howrah district on Friday.
Two drug peddlers, including an African, were arrested from South West Delhi and 141 grams of cocaine, having a value of around 1.5 crore in the international market, seized from them, the police said on Friday.
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.
RSV is a highly contagious virus that can lead to serious respiratory illness in infants and is also the leading cause of hospitalisation in infants worldwide.
