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Leqembi: Japan approves Alzheimer treatment

Japan's Eisai said on Monday the country's health ministry had approved its Alzheimer treatment Leqembi, co-developed with US-based Biogen. The development comes after a health...

DRAP, FIA launch country-wide crackdown against fake, unregistered medicine

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have fastened their country-wide crackdown on fake and unregistered medicine, conducting multiple...

Punjab health dept denies medicine shortage, production halt news

Lahore: The Health Department Punjab has denied news about shortage of life-saving medicine in the province, claiming there is adequate stock of all medicine...

Punjab faces life-saving drugs’ shortage as pharmaceuticals halt production

Lahore: Punjab is facing shortage of at least 40 life-saving drugs including fever medicine, while drugs prices have shot up by over 21%, ARY...

The Chinese dad making medicine to treat his dying son

Two-year-old Haoyang has likely just months to live -- but the only medicine that can help his rare genetic condition is not found anywhere...

Ghotki officials detain ‘medicine thieves’ inside health department

According to health department records, the recovered medicine belonged to Ghotki's Tehsil hospital and the storekeeper played the abettor

Colchicine to be tested as COVID-19 treatment in UK trial

Anti-inflammatory colchicine will be tested as a possible COVID-19 treatment in one of the world’s biggest trials, the study website posted on Friday

Indian pharmacist dies after consuming his own ‘COVID-19 cure’

The herbal products company owner and pharmacist consumed the COVID-19 cure prepared by the latter and fell unconscious.

As virus bites, ASEAN leaders make vow on food and medicine supply

Southeast Asian leaders pledged to keep trade routes open to protect food supplies and stockpile medical equipment at a summit held online Tuesday.

Trump administration moves forward rule to import medicines

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it is proposing a rule to allow states to import prescription drugs from Canada

Major political events depress young doctors’ moods

Major political events, such as the 2016 presidential election and inauguration, were linked with declines in the moods of young U.S. doctors in training

Doctors who deciphered body’s response to oxygen win Nobel Medicine Prize

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” They identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen.

White House kills rebate rule aimed at lowering drug prices

The Trump administration has withdrawn a rule that it had said would lower drug prices by ending the system of prescription drug after-market discounts

DRAP to launch crackdown against illegal advertising of medicines

The DRAP had issued a letter to all its departments in provinces and the capital to take action against the illegal advertisement of medicines.

Pharmaceutical to pay $7 million to settle price-fixing allegations

Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle allegations that it fixed the prices of several medicines

DRAP seizes stocks of 226 medicines on overpricing

Action was taken against firms in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi

Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease: UN

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise amid a preponderance of droughts, floods and superstorms made worse by climbing sea levels, there is a growing political consensus that climate change poses a future risk to billions

AI system spots childhood disease like a doctor

An artificial intelligence (AI) programme developed in China diagnosed childhood diseases as accurately as doctors

For Nora, Brexit ‘could be a matter of life and death’

With just 56 days until Britain leaves the EU, Jo Elgarf has begun stockpiling food in case politicians fail to strike an exit deal

Buzdar suspends doctor for asking patient’s father to get medicine from outside

SHEIKHUPURA: Upon complaint of father of an injured child, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Sunday directed to suspend the doctor who asked him...
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