Page 13 - Medicines

Selling medicines carefully

While DTC advertising is big business in the US, it is yet to gain favour in most parts of world

Herbal remedies or conventional medicines - Which is the safer bet?

284 adverse incidents for herbal medicines were reported compared with 26,129 for pharmaceuticals

HC quashes ban on 344 fixed dose combination medicines

The government had banned over 300 FDC drugs on the ground that they involve "risk" to humans

Story in numbers: Bitter Pill

Medicines continue to be out of reach ofss the poor, despite government promises that it would make the drugs cheaper

Letters: Matters of medicine

There are instances where traditional systems of medicine have come to the rescue where modern medicine couldn't. Speaking several years ago at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Prathap C Reddy, the founder of Apollo chain of hospitals, observed that 25 years from then, the present system of medicine would become an alternative system.He recounted interesting personal experiences to testify to the efficacy of alternative medicine. He said when his brother had a heart disease, allopathic doctors predicted he had only six weeks left to live; the Ayurvedic treatment his brother underwent in Kerala ensured his survival for 42 more years.Reddy recalled he had his fractured hand treated at the popular bone setting clinic in Puttur in Andhra ainiltyPradesh's Chittoor district. He also said the Rauwolfia Serpentina (Sarpagandha) was still the most trusted root by cardiologists.Ayurveda is already a hit in Russia, coming to the country following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to treat

No permission given to hike drug prices beyond limits: Govt

The government has brought down the prices of 404 medicines under NLEM 2015 of the Drug Price Control Order 2013

126 drugs cheaper by over 40% as govt fixes ceiling

Prices of another 34 drugs has come down in the range of 35-40%