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    Drug regulators cancel licences of drug manufacturing units over quality concerns

    New Delhi: The central and state drug regulatory bodies have banned the licences of numerous production facilities and revoked the product approvals of a few others, all on the grounds of quality concerns. Regulators investigated dozens of medication manufacturing plants in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra in response to allegations of the […] More

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    Siemens Healthineers unveils new manufacturing facility for MRI machines at Bengaluru

    Bengaluru: Siemens Healthineers has inaugurated the new manufacturing facility for Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines at Bengaluru. The company will currently manufacture MAGNETOM Free.Star, a disruptively simple approach to high-quality MRI in India. “Under the Government of India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, the company is dedicated to manufacture Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging […] More

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    Rise in COVID cases: Serum Institute restarts manufacturing of Covishield

    Rise in COVID cases: Serum Institute restarts manufacturing of Covishield

    New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Wednesday said it has restarted manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield amid rising numbers of cases of the virus infection. He said the company already has six million booster doses of Covovax vaccine available and adults must take the booster shot. Reacting to reports of […] More