Medicine

Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win Medicine Nobel for facilitating Covid vaccine

Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work…

1 year ago

Cancer medicines to turn cheaper as GST Council recommends tax waiver

GST Council has recommended the exemption of cancer-related drugs, medicines for rare diseases and food products for special medical purposes…

1 year ago

In a first, medicine to treat Alzheimer’s fully approved in US

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven…

1 year ago

Govt cuts prices of 51 medicines

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed the retail prices of 51 medicines which include those used for treating…

1 year ago

US teenager dies due to overdose of medicine linked to Tik Tok challenge

A US teenager died after he overdosed on Benadryl, an over-the-counter medication, as he was trying to copy a Tik…

2 years ago

Paracetamol, amoxycillin among 127 medicines made cheaper in fresh NPPA review

Commonly used medicines like paracetamol, amoxycillin rabeprazole and metformin are among the list of 127 medicines that will now become cheaper…

2 years ago