Medicine Prices

Effectively the prices of 651 medicines will come down by 6.73%; WPI-linked price rise allowed this fiscal is 12.2%; about 870 formulations fall under the essential category

Discovered in 1970, the drug was tested on severe Covid-19 patients on DCGI's direction

Regulator looking to cap prices of Sitagliptin, Linagliptin and combinations

Unprecedented rise in the cost of pharmaceutical drugs has troubled Afghans at a time when the country's economy is on the brink of collapse

These include glimepiride tablet of strength 1 mg, with ceiling price at Rs 3.6 per tablet, while that for 2 mg is Rs 5.72 per tablet

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has fixed ceiling prices of 355 medicines and 882 formulations under the National List of Essential Medicines, 2015, Parliament was informed

Delhi Police has registered 113 FIRs, of which 61 cases pertain to cheating and fraud in name of providing Covid-19 medicines or oxygen, 52 cases related to black-marketing, hoarding or overcharging

The Varanasi police have started a crackdown on medical stores that are overcharging buyers for medicines and critical instruments like oximeters amid a shortage triggered by a huge demand

The company has launched its Dapagliflozin tablets in the strengths of 10 mg and 5 mg priced at ₹17 and ₹14

Ipca's Zerodol brand and its multiple variants used in treating pain and inflammation are an example of how this trend is playing out

Long-term treatments like diabetes, high blood pressure and lipid-lowering drugs are classified into the chronic category

The prices of APIs have gone up in the range of 5-88%

One million heart patients have saved around Rs 80 bn since the fixation of ceiling prices of coronary stents in Feb 2017