Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020: Healthcare professionals laud central law

Aimed at ensuring access to effective and good quality palliative care services for every person in the state, the Kerala government recently introduced revised pain and palliative care policy with a focus on home-based care.

The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, has cleared The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, recently. The bill prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows “altruistic surrogacy” which does not involve monetary compensation to the surrogate mother apart from medical expenses and insurance coverage during the pregnancy. One of the major aims of the bill […]

EMA and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are aligned in more than 90% of marketing authorisation decisions for new medicines, found a joint analysis by the top global drug regulatory agencies.   The EMA/FDA analysis compared decisions on 107 new medicine applications at the two agencies between 2014 and 2016. The study entitled […]

Even as Travancore-Cochin Medical Council (TCMC), the Kerala state medical council, has once again issued a circular asking the medical professionals in the state to prescribe medicines in generic names

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Indian Society of Nano Medicine has come out with guidelines for evaluation of nanopharmaceuticals in India.

In a significant development, Lok Sabha recently passed the much-awaited Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016, which bans commercial surrogacy in the country