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Singapore executes citizen for cannabis trafficking

Singapore on Wednesday executed a man convicted of drug trafficking, a representative for his family said, despite pleas from his relatives and activists for...

India to spend $79.6 million to strengthen drug regulatory system

India will spend $79.6 million on strengthening its drug regulatory system, the health minister said on Friday, after the World Health Organization raised concerns...

Govt, drug manufacturers accord over Paracetamol tablet, syrup prices

The Federal government has agreed to raise the price of the Panadol extra tablet to Rs2.75 while the price for the plain Panadol tablet...

Drug shows promise in lifting long COVID brain fog

Lauren Nichols, a 34-year-old logistics expert for the U.S. Department of Transportation in Boston, has been suffering from impaired thinking and focus, fatigue, seizures,...

US FDA approves expanded use of cancer drug Opdivo

Bristol Myers Squibb said the US Food and Drug Administration had approved the expanded use of its cancer drug Opdivo along with chemotherapy as...

France cancels order for Merck’s COVID-19 antiviral drug

France has cancelled its order for Merck's COVID-19 antiviral drug following disappointing trial data and hopes instead to receive Pfizer's competing drug before the...

US approves drug for dwarfism

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved for the first time a drug to improve growth in children with the most common...

Aryan Khan was not on cruise when drugs raid happened: lawyer

Amit Desai, the lawyer of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, claimed that his client was not on the cruise when he...

Drug smuggling bid foiled at Islamabad airport

ISLAMABAD: Customs officials have foiled a bid to smuggle 30 kilogrammes of heroin to the United Kingdom and arrested two suspects at Islamabad International...

DRAP wants people to report drug unavailibility, overpricing on new helpline

The regulatory announced toll-free helpline 0800-03727 for the masses to report any wrongdoing by pharmacies in terms of pricing and hoarding

Merck says this drug causes quick reduction in coronavirus infection

The antiviral is being currently tested in a Phase 2/3 trial that is set to be completed in May

Lahore man shot mother dead as she denied him money for drugs, police say

Both the prime accused & his mother were into drugs and indulged in ice but when she denied money, he opened fatal fire, police said

WATCH: Motorist drives onto airport runway after ‘taking a wrong turn’

Police have detained him on suspicion of intruding into restricted areas within the airport.

Govt notifies significant cut in price of COVID-19 drug

The new price of 100mg injection of the antiviral is fixed at Rs5,680

Pharma shares rise as United States approves remdesivir as COVID-19 drug

Shares of Gilead Sciences rose 6% on Friday after its antiviral drug, remdesivir, became the first and only approved treatment for COVID-19 in the US

Lilly’s rheumatoid arthritis drug cuts COVID-19 deaths in trial, data shows

Eli Lilly and Co, an American pharmaceutical company, said on Thursday that fewer deaths were reported among COVID-19 patients taking a combination of its rheumatoid arthritis drug, 'baricitinib', and Gilead Sciences Inc’s 'remdesivir' in a clinical trial, compared to only remdesivir.

Govt reduces price of COVID-19 drug remdesivir

The federal government announced to reduce prices of key lifesaving drugs, including remdesivir, being used for the treatment of critical COVID-19 patients

Diabetes drug improves survival in kidney disease patients

The British drugmaker said Farxiga was shown in a study to cut the risk of dying from any cause for people suffering from chronic kidney disease by 31% when compared to a group on placebo.

Lahore SHOs to undergo dope test over ‘use of drugs’: sources

The action against the SHOs was ordered after a report blamed them for consuming and supporting drugs-related activities.

Blood cancer drug wins European panel thumbs-up

A panel of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday has recommended approving GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental treatment for a common form of blood cancer

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