Hyderabad: Stressing the need to strengthen the medical devices industry in India, Industries Minister K.T. Rama Rao wrote a letter to Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal raising key issues faced by the industry and sought favourable action. Stating that the 20th anniversary edition of BioAsia concluded successfully in February this year, KTR said that a
Three employees of a city-based pharmaceutical firm, whose cough syrup is alleged to have led to the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan last year, were arrested on charges of manufacturing and sale of adulterated drugs, officials said.The arrests were made after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night against five officials of Marion Biotech, including two of its directors, over a complaint by a drugs inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization CDSCO, they said.Police said the directors are at large and a search is underway to apprehend them.
The approval for AstraZeneca molecule is based on the findings of a phase-3 global clinical trial that evaluated immunotherapy plus chemotherapy as first line treatment for advanced biliary tract cancer