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Ministry of Health

NPPA revises ceiling prices of 8 drugs

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday informed that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has revised the ceiling prices of eight scheduled drugs that are used for treatment of several diseases including Asthma, Glaucoma, Thalassemia, and Tuberculosis.

India calls for urgent global cooperation to tackle AMR

At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on AMR, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said Antimicrobial Resistance is undermining decades of progress made in the field of modern medicine.

New ‘double variant’ of coronavirus identified in 18 states

The Health Ministry said, “Though VOCs and a new double mutant variant have been found in India, these have not been detected in numbers sufficient to either establish a direct relationship or explain the rapid increase in cases in some states.”