The World Health Organisation (WHO) has prequalified MenFive, the first conjugate vaccine to provide protection against the five most common types of meningococcal meningitis in Africa, according to Serum Institute of India (SII), a leader in vaccine production. MenFive, a…
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Based on risk-based inspections, the Gujarat Food and Drug Control Agency (FDCA) has revoked 15 product licences from 6 pharmaceutical companies. Ahmedabad is where the majority of these businesses are based. The risk-based inspections discovered that some of the businesses…
Veteran academic and professional pharmacy experts say the Union government should take into consideration the name of former PCI chairman Dr. B Suresh to be included in the panel as co-chairman. They are unhappy with the way the Union health…
According to senior CDSCO officials involved in the process, the risk-based inspections that the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) scheduled for December of last year resulted in the cancellation of licences for 18 Indian pharmaceutical companies for producing fake…
According to SME Pharma Industries Confederation (SPIC), the country’s leading organisation for small and medium-sized pharmaceutical businesses, empowering the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) through the centralization of drug licencing may not be the best way to increase the…
WHO is in charge of advancing universal health care internationally. We organise and lead the global response to health emergencies. We also encourage leading healthier lives, from prenatal care through old age. With the help of science-based policies and programmes,…