After deliberating over the medicine for over two years, the drug regulatory agency has approved India’s first eye drops to remove the need for reading glasses. On Tuesday, Mumbai-headquartered Entod Pharmaceuticals launched “PresVu” eye drops made using pilocarpine – the medicine that treats ‘presbyopia’ by reducing the size of the pupils which helps to see objects up close. “Till now, …
HYDERABAD: Tightening its grip on the manufacturing, stocking and sale of illegal and sub-standard drugs, the Drugs Control Administration has seized medicines worth Rs 20,47,36,570 since December 4. As many as 24 quacks, most of whom were operating in villages, were raided, with stock worth Rs 18.76 lakh seized from them during this time period. Taking all cases into consideration, …
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, have developed an oral solution to treat Black Fungus and other fungus and are ready to transfer the technology to take it forward, the premier institute said. "With the two years of advancement of examination, the researchers are now confident that the technology can be transferred to suitable pharma partners for large-scale production. …
HYDERABAD: Shortage of medicines to treat black fungus affliction is a major challenge. Amphotericin B deoxycholate is a conventional drug that has side-effects affecting kidney but doctors say they can get a kidney specialist to manage the patient and stop the fungus invasion if the medicine is available. But, in order to not allow the fungus to regrow, we need …
