VSICON Jaipur – Sept 26 – 29, 2012

In December 2014, the Union Health Ministry of India decided to set up a high level committee to review the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1945 and make the rules more relevant. The committee has now set up 7 sub-groups to look at different segments. The following 2 groups are relevant for Medical Devices:   1….

Smith and Nephew buys out Sushrut-Adler, a leading Indian manufacturer of orthopedic implants and instrumentation. This reflects the trend in the pharmaceutical industry of MNCs buying out Indian companies.

  Antibiotic introduced in year First resistant bacterial strain found in Penicillin introduced in 1940 Penicillin-resistant staph – 1940 Tetracycline introduced in 1950 Tetracycline-resistant shigella 1959 Erythromycin introduced in 1953 Erythromycin-resistant strep – 1968 Methicillin introduced in 1960 Methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA) – 1962 Levofloxacin – 1996 Resistant bacteria emerged in – 1996 Linezolid –…

The Government is trying to pass the Disabilities Bill in the winter session of Parliament. In 1997, India became the 7th nation to ratify the UNCRPD  (United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities). This shifts disability from a medical perspective to a human-rights approach. This includes disability in seeing, hearing, movement and mental…

In August 2012 at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society conference in Chennai, a road-map was laid out to tackle the problem of increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This is popularly known as the Chennai Declaration. It envisages that within 5 years, 90% of all antibiotics should be included in Schedule H1 and be sold…

Drug resistance, especially to antibiotics, is becoming a serious problem for public health policy makers the world over, both in developed as well as developing countries. Common causes of increasing antibiotic resistance are: 1. Self-medication by patients for a variety of common diseases 2. Using antibiotics as a first line of defence, instead of as…