Hyderabad: Country's second largest drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories has said it is working on six new drugs in different areas, including metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases, psoriasis

Washington: Prehistoric man made cave art while high on hallucinogenic drugs, a new research has claimed. A team of international scientists studied over 40,000 years worth of cave paintings.
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Hyderabad: Animal lovers have hailed the recent ban on testing of drugs on animals by the Drug Controller of India along the lines of the European Union. India is the first country in South Asia to i

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking a probe against Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd for allegedly manufacturing and selling substandard medicines due to lack of evidence against

New York: The U.S. government sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. on Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors’ drugs to its own.
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Patiala/Chandigarh:  Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh’s roommate and sparring partner Ram Singh was on Sunday expelled from the National Institute of Sports after admitting that he consumed dr

As many as 7,253 theft and 549 drugging cases in trains were reported till September 2012, according to Railway Ministry data.

Maximum number of theft cases (1,406) were reported in Western Central R

The Centre on Thursday approved the long-awaited National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPA), which intends to keep the prices of 348 essential drugs under control and thus reduce prices.

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Taking a serious view of alleged use of human beings as guinea pigs for clinical trials by drug companies, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre and various states governments to reply to the allegation.

Customs officials at Chennai airport were left red-faced on Tuesday night after a ‘narcotics’ haul turned out to be sand.

The officials had offloaded Mr Joseph, 65, and Ms Mariaselvi, 60, both French