The Medical Supplies Division(MSD) has instructed all government hospitals and pharmacies through a special circular to re issue 140 drug varieties which were withdrawn from government hospitals and pharmacies two weeks back citing they are in low quality the said circular has been issued on 01st October. The Health Ministry has even banned four Drug […]
Are We Poisoning Our Waters System With Prescription Drugs, DEET, EPA, And Cocaine?
Chemicals are being discarded into our water systems throughout the country as well as reported by NBC News.Com, reporting that Minnesota’s many lakes, remote and isolated urban areas contain a wide range of chemicals which included DEET, EPA, prescription drugs and also cocaine. People this is an issue that American’s should be concerned about in our society […]
MURDER, MOST FOUL- KASHMIR SPURIOUS DRUG SCAM
MURDER, MOST FOUL- THE KASHMIR SPURIOUS DRUG SCAM Some newspapers reported supply of ‘sub standard’ drugs to government hospitals in Kashmir. But, these papers were wrong- the drugs supplied were not ‘substandard’ by any measure- they simply weren’t drugs at all! And while this scam highlights the abysmal level of depravity exhibited by those who […]
Supreme Court rejects Swiss company Novartis to patent a new cancer drug
The Supreme Court`s landmark decision to reject Swiss company Novartis to patent a new version of its cancer drug, Glivec has put poor Indians in to festive mood. Medicines Sans Frontiers,a charity has hailed it as a victory for poor patients not just in India but throughout the world. The Supreme Court argued that Novartis […]
US Spending on Traditional Prescription Drugs Fell in 2012 for First Time on Record
For the first time in more than 20 years, there was a decrease in U.S. spending on traditional prescription drugs — primarily pills people take to treat more common diseases such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure — according to the Express Scripts 2012 Drug Trend Report, which quantifies annual changes in utilization, unit costs […]
Zalicus shares drop along with drug
11 January 2013 (http://www.carepharmacyrx.com/); Zalicus (earlier known as Combinatory) is a pharmaceutical company that not a very long time ago experienced a tremendous downfall. The company is a big component of the medical industry and bears a rich and long history of associations with ‘Big Pharmacy’. The company had come out with a remedial solution […]