“We cannot stop doctors from studying or working abroad – we can provide them with lucrative offers”, these are the words of an official serving on the parliamentary committee. Obviously, doctors are too less in numbers in India. Total number of MBBS seats—53,330 (30,000 NEET) Colleges 426 Total 17,000 PG-NEET seats are available across 350 […]
Health Impact NewsGo to… Print This Post Print This Post 23K 113 17 Share 3 Share 6 101 Patient bribing doctor putting money to pocket Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System The government’s data on payments to doctors and hospitals by […]
This story was co-published with The New York Times. On Tuesday, the federal government is expected to release details of payments to doctors by every pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in the country. The information is being made public under a provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The law mandates disclosure of payments to […]
As Full Disclosure Nears, Doctors’ Pay for Drug Talks Plummets As transparency increases and blockbuster drugs lose patent protection, drug companies have dramatically scaled back payments to doctors for promotional talks. This fall, all drug and medical device companies will be required to report payments to doctors. by Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski […]
On Leadership By Lillian Cunningham September 24, 2015 at 5:31 PM (Joseph Jimenez, CEO of Novartis | Photo by The Washington Post) As stories of jacked-up drug costs make news, and discussions of health-care reform pepper the campaign trail, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez sat down with The Washington Post to talk about how he views […]
BY TOM BLACKWELL ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MAR 28, 2016 One critic calls the plan by Canadian drug companies to start publishing statistics on their overall payments to health… Amid ongoing controversy over the fees pharmaceutical companies pay doctors, 10 Canadian-based firms have agreed to divulge how much cash they hand over to physicians and health organizations […]
A Note to Readers Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial by Alison Bass Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 260 pp., $24.95 Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs by Melody Petersen Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, […]
One of the commonest reasons of divorce is having a mental or a neurological disorder in either of the couple, especially in wife. Tolerating psychiatric disorder in husbands by their wives is often seen than vice versa, due to various cultural, psychological, social, financial and family reasons. Parents of sons and daughters having serious psychiatric […]
एक बार एक टी.वी. शो में कुछ आधे-अधूरे तथ्यों एवं बिना विषय से सम्बंधित उपयुक्त एवं un biased विशेषज्ञों को साथ लिए, सभी भारतीय चिकित्सकों की लगभग खिल्ली उड़ाते हुए, उनके द्वारा मरीजों को लिखे जाने वाली अच्छी कम्पनी की ब्रांडेड दवाओं के बारे में कुछ भ्रान्ति प्रचारित एवं प्रसारित की गयी. यही नहीं बाज़ार […]
Let me clear the myth being spread by media and the politicians about generic and non generic drugs.1. Drugs are developed by pharma companies in labs and after lots of clinical testings for their safety and efficacy they enter into market as branded drugs in patented form by which means no other company can market […]
Some of the problematic areas of the legislation are a) definition of certain terms like *mental health establishment* b) Capacity to consent for treatment (most problematic one) c) Advance Directives d) Nominated Representative e) All issues /problems / litigation will be heard in *mental health board* which is a civil court (quasi judicial body). Now […]
Generic-Generic or Generic-only drug (without brand name) and usually is supplied in institutional supplies. “Generic name of the drug” is not same as generic drug and means the chemical name of the drug only. Generic-Generic is made and marketed by local companies in the unorganized sector as the preparation with questionable quality.Trade Generic (Generic marketed […]
Addiction doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs and people will heal. Posted by Jane Ellen Stevens dr-daniel-sumrok-2-1-1024×657.jpeg He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”. He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like […]
Dr K. K Aggarwal, President of the Indian Medical Association ( IMA), spoke to Healthpost about a host of issues : the deteriorating doctor-patient relationship, generic drugs, Clinical Establishment Act of West Bengal, etc. Excerpts: How do you think has doctor- patient relationship changed? The smart phone era has brought about a paradigm shift […]
Dr. Dewat Nakipuria Professor Of GI Surgery And Gastro Enterology, International Expert For HIV ,Hepatitis & Colitis Management Selling or marketing spurious medicine is a black market industry of thousand crores in our country. So many medicines are sold openly in the market over the counter without prescription of doctors. Not only this, such medicines […]
The Scariest Thing You Don’t Know About Generic DrugsBY DAVID EIFRIG POSTED APRIL 24, 2014 The Scariest Thing You Don’t Know About Generic Drugs Karen Bartlett spent months recovering in the hospital after losing two-thirds of her skin and needing a medically induced coma. She is now legally blind and has trouble […]
Credit: ©iStockphoto.com As we cope with the economic recession, we’ve all had to make concessions. It’s been “good-bye” to European vacations, organic milk and magazine subscriptions. But there are those things we can’t give up without risking serious illness or death, one of which is prescription medication. In 2004 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]
Scientists have found more new evidence that Parkinson’s could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy. The operation removes sections of the vagus nerve – which links the digestive tract with the brain – and over […]
The Science Picture Company/Alamy Stock Photo Immune cells unexpectedly help the heart keep its beat By Mitch LeslieApr. 20, 2017 , 12:00 PM The immune cells known as macrophages have a long to-do list in our bodies. They defend us from bacteria, coax wounds to heal, and perform other vital tasks. A surprising new study […]
It must have happened to you many times that an anxious parent came to your clinic for follow up with his daughter suffering from fever and telling “Doctor it has been two days she is suffering from fever. Why are you not giving her some STRONGER antibiotic that acts FAST and heal her fever?” Even […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resolve to ensure that doctors prescribe only generic medicines is being undone by some creative interpretation of the Medical Council of India’s (MCI’s) “code” for doctors, which ostensibly makes it mandatory to prescribe using generic names. Reacting to the MCI injunction that doctors should prescribe generic drugs, the Indian Medical Association […]
Declaration: This communication is to address the immediate concern of fellow psychiatrists. The IPS EC is schduled to meet on the 10th May at the IPS HQ to discuss the sequel and impact of the relevant MCI circular. The following communication is being released after due approval from the Honb’le President – IPS. +++++++ […]
A reputed law firm opines in the context of Health Ministry’s letterNew Delhi: The letter dated 18.4.2017 sent out by the Government of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to the various Secretaries in the States/UT’s enclosing a copy of the amended MCI regulation which mandates that “every physician should prescribe drugs with generic […]
IMA-FOMA DELHI RESOLUTIONS (IMA- Federation of Medical Associations of India) Prescription of Generic Name of the Drugs by Medical Professionals · IMA-FOMA appreciates Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s concern about the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality economical drugs to the society. · IMA-FOMA recommends that Government should ban differential pricing of a drug […]
A generic drug is identical–or bioequivalent–to a brand name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics and intended use. Although generic drugs are chemically identical to their branded counterparts, they are typically sold at substantial discounts from the branded price. According to the Congressional Budget Office, generic drugs save consumers […]
by Donna Ker Leesley, Researchers Find Main Source of Pain in Blood Vessels. Researchers have found the main source of pain in Fibromyalgia patients, and contrary to what many believe, it does not stem from the brain. The findings mark the end of a decades-old mystery about the disease, which many doctors believed was […]
It challenges our intuition to think that brain neurons like these are responsible for all of our thoughts, emotions and mental disorders—but they are. Credit: Nephron Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) Earlier this month, JAMA Psychiatry published a groundbreaking addition to their journal’s line-up: an educational review intended to educate psychiatrists about neuroscience. A group of […]
1.1 Health is a fundamental human right. The Constitution of India directs the State to regard the improvement of public health as among its primary duties. The Five Year Plants have been providing the framework within which the Centre and States have developed their health services infrastructure and programmes. Since the attainment of Independence considerable […]
The dispute really is whether respondents 1 2 and3 as above-mentioned can acting within the scope of the power conferred by the Act and the Rules compel the petitioners or the other manufacturers of drugs to either not use the brand name or trade name at all in marketing the drugs respectively produced by them […]
Date:- Friday, August 13, 1982 Court:- High Court of Delhi Judges:- THE HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. PRAKASH NARAIN & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.S. CHADHA Advocates:- A.H. Desai, C.M. Manier, K.M. Iyer, K. Prabhakar, Rainu Valia, S.I. Thakore, T.M. Ansari, V. Rao. Full Text:- PRAKASH NARAIN C. J. (1) THE import manufacture […]
When the journalist Bryony Gordon wrote about her struggle with depression she was taken aback by her readers’ reaction. In her memoir Mad Girl she recalls: ‘Of all the subjects I had written about in my career, not one of them had elicited a response like this… I received hundreds and hundreds of messages […]
Brand names can not be restricted by the Govt. The Notification only provides additional requirement of writting GENERIC name. It does not prohibit writting BRAND in addition to generic. Word ONLY is missing from notification. DB judgement of Delhi High Court in Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Vs. C.V.S. Mani, 1982 can be referred where it was held […]
you heard it only as a philosophical sentence till now, we are presenting a case from a gynaecologist to tell you how serious this sentence is. © Detcare -Few days back a normal healthy pregnant woman came to my clinic for delivery. She got admitted as a normal delivery patient. Everything was going on fine, […]
OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA SHRI NARENDRA MODIJI AND UNION HEALTH MINISTER SHRI J.P. NADDAJI Dear Sir Indian Medical Association has always supported prescription in generic name provided the government can ensure quality of the drugs manufactured or available in our market. The generic drug prescription is a complex issue. 1. The quality […]
After reading the ethical guidelines I am of the view that doctors are unnecessarily agitated over the MCI circular. The concerned section is as follows. “1.5 – Use of Generic names of drugs: Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/ she shall ensure that there […]
.To The President MCI Dear Madam This is about the following circular being issued by the MCI. However, the clause 1.5 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 has been amended in 2016 and notified in the Gazette of India on 21.09.2016, which reads as under: “1.5 – Use of […]
As we all are Pharma professional, …..Now a days lot of myth being spread by media and the politicians about generic and non generic drugs, So i would like that we all should pull up our socks and make people aware about these myths….and let us clear them about Drugs …..1. Drugs are developed by […]
2034, May 1 Woke early morning due to chilly weather in the room even though it was quiet hot outside in Mumbai . Since govenment had made use of cow dung ( Gober) compulsory to be used as plastering material and biweekly reapplication , rooms were getting astonishingly cold . use of air conditioners were […]
In our previous medico-legal articles we have used the term “medical negligence” and “malpractice” several times. In general, these two terms have been used interchangeably, whereas, in legal aspect they have a subtle difference in the definition of these two terms. A knowledge of this difference may often lessen the legal burden for an accused […]
Drugs with generic name means drugs manufactured by a company who has not invented the drug and does not hold the patent for the same . Because the company has not invested in R &D it is able to sell it at a much lower cost. This can happen after the patent duration has expired […]
Today, nearly 8 in 10 prescriptions filled in the United States are for generic drugs. The use of generic drugs is expected to grow over the next few years as a number of popular drugs come off patent through 2015. Here are some facts about generic drugs: FACT: FDA requires generic drugs to […]
🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴From the desk of Dr KK Aggarwal National President, IMA Generic drugs prescription The current law situation is ““Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs” 1. Every physician means all of us 2. ‘Should” […]
What’s the difference between brand-name and generic prescription drugs? ADVERTISEMENT | REPORT AD Pharmacist Erik Mogalian and assistant professor Paul Myrdal of the University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy explain. A brand-name drug product is originally discovered and developed by a pharmaceutical company. In order for the company to market and sell their product they […]
A compulsory license provides that the owner of a patent or copyright licenses the use of their rights against payment either set by law or determined through some form of adjudication or arbitration. In essence, under a compulsory license, an individual or company seeking to use another’s intellectual property can do so without seeking the […]
Legal scholars, economists, activists, policymakers, industries, and trade organizations have held differing views on patents and engaged in contentious debates on the subject. Critical perspectives emerged in the nineteenth century that were especially based on the principles of free trade.[1]:262–263 Contemporary criticisms have echoed those arguments, claiming that patents block innovation and waste resources that […]
Evergreening is any of various legal, business and technological strategies by which producers extend their patents over products that are about to expire, in order to retain royalties from them, by either taking out new patents (for example over associated delivery systems, or new pharmaceutical mixtures), or by buying out, or frustrating competitors, for longer […]
A biosimilar (also known as follow-on biologic or subsequent entry biologic) is a biologic medical product which is almost an identical copy of an original product that is manufactured by a different company.[1] Biosimilars are officially approved versions of original “innovator” products, and can be manufactured when the original product’s patent expires.[2] Reference to the […]
Government Patent Policy Act of 1980 Patent and Trademark System Reform Long title An Act to amend the patent and trademark laws. Nicknames Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act Enacted by the 96th United States Congress Effective December 12, 1980 Citations Public law 96-517 Statutes at Large 94 Stat. 3015 Codification Acts amended Patent Act […]
ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement French: Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon Spanish: Acuerdo Comercial Anti-Falsificación {{{image_alt}}} Type Plurilateral agreement Drafted 15 November 2010 (final revision)[1] 15 April 2011 (formal publication)[2] Signed 1 October 2011 Location Tokyo, Japan Effective Not in force Condition Ratification by six states Negotiators Australia Canada European Union Japan Mexico Morocco New Zealand Singapore South […]
In some countries, such as Brazil (photo) and France, more than 20% of all drug sales are generic. A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that is equivalent to a brand-name product in dosage, strength, route of administration, quality, performance, and intended use.[1] The term may also refer to any drug marketed under its chemical […]
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