New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Multinational pharmaceutical giants — with R&D investments and human trials running in China’s Xinjiang region and at Chinese military hospitals — are escaping US regulation that prohibits drug development or clinical testing, according to an article in The Wire, a New York-headquartered global digital magazine.Data put together by The Wire China and WireScreen from ClinicalTrials.gov, a medical trial database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, …
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Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) NCP tribal leader and Maharashtra Minister for Food and Drug Administration, Narhari Zirwal, is in a fix after an allegedly obscene video of him with a transgender person has gone viral on social media. It is not Zirwal alone but the Sunetra Pawar-led NCP faces an acid test to weather the crisis as the party has been mired in a string of controversies.The viral video allegedly featuring Zirwal has sparked a barrage of criticism from the Opposition who claimed that the ind…
Washington, March 26 (IANS) A group of US senators have urged federal regulators to act against illegal online sales of abortion pills, flagging links to overseas supply chains, including India.In a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary on Wednesday, the lawmakers called for “immediate action” to stop “misbranded and unapproved versions of the chemical abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol” entering the US market.They said the “illegal sale of t…
Washington, March 12 (IANS) The United States has become dangerously dependent on China for the raw materials and ingredients used in many of its most common medicines, lawmakers and expert witnesses warned at a Senate hearing, casting the problem as both a national security threat and a looming public health crisis.The hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Ageing brought together lawmakers and industry experts on Wednesday (local time) who described how decades of offshoring pharmaceutical…
New York, March 8 (IANS) Indian-American scientist Vinay Prasad, who oversees the approval process for vaccines and new therapies, is stepping down amid controversies over his decisions to tighten certain regulations. His departure for the second time from the post of director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research within a year was announced on Friday by the agency’s head, Marty Makary.Prasad had quit his job in July, less than two months after ta…
Washington, Feb 28 (IANS) A bipartisan US Senate panel took aim at the Food and Drug Administration over delays and shifting standards that witnesses said are blocking rare disease treatments, warning that “time is the most precious commodity” for families and that “rare disease patients cannot wait.”At a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Chairman Rick Scott said the central question was whether the FDA is doing “everything Congress intended it to do to quickly get safe…
Washington, Feb 20 (IANS) Two top American Senators have written to the Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking details on vulnerabilities in America’s pharmaceutical supply chain, warning that heavy reliance on foreign sources — particularly Communist China and India — could threaten military readiness and national security.The letter, sent by the US Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Rick Scott and Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand, asks the Department to outline how it …
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist, is taking over the leadership of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the acting director of the world’s premier medical research organisation.Bhattacharya, who now heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will simultaneously hold the CDC position, he told NBC News, confirming several earlier news reports.He steps into the CDC, which, like the rest of the federal health establishment, has been enmeshe…
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) US Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, raised fresh alarms Sunday over what he described as an effort by President Donald Trump to undermine confidence in US elections, calling the FBI’s seizure of 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Georgia “almost… Nixonian.”“We have not been informed of any foreign nexus,” Warner told CBS’ Face the Nation, questioning why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared a…
Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) Former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that the accelerating measles outbreak in the United States is part of a broader global cycle driven by falling vaccination rates and a growing anti-vaccine backlash that has spread well beyond America.“I think this is going to get worse, unfortunately, before it resolves,” Gottlieb said on CBS’ Face the Nation, pointing to a steady rise in cases this year following what he described as d…