Roundtable on Delayed Payments to MSMEs

Dear Sir,                                                Roundtable on Delayed Payments to MSMEs 1500 hrs on 5 March 2012 : The Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23 Institutional Area , Lodhi Road, New Delhi. Delayed payment is a major concern for MSME’s and the major cause forsickness in the MSME’s sector is delayed payments. The MSMED act 2006 provides for penal [...]

Health ministry’s efforts to make registration of BA/BE studies mandatory with CTRI stuck in red-tapism

Health ministry’s efforts to make registration of BA/BE studies mandatory with CTRI stuck in red-tapism February 06, 2012, 0800 IST – Source : PharmaBizNews The union health ministry’s efforts to make the registration of bioavailability and bioequivalance (BA/BE) studies mandatory with the Clinical Trial Registry of India (CTRI) are stuck in the bureaucratic red-tapism as [...]

Health ministry tightens norms on clinical trials, action on two violations

January 25, 2012, 0800 IST – Source : PharmaBizNews The Union health ministry has tightened the norms on clinical trials after amending necessary rules regarding obtaining informed consent from the trial subjects and extending financial assistance to the victims, and has found two cases of violations in trials in the recent past. The two cases [...]

Virtue Insight to organise ‘Clinical trials Asia summit-2012′ on February 9 in Mumbai

January 27, 2012, 0800 IST – Source : PharmaBizNews Virtue Insight, Tamil Nadu will organise the 3rd Annual Clinical Trials Asia Summit 2012 – “A critical guide for successfully conducting clinical trials” on February 9 in Mumbai. The summit aims to provide a detailed analysis of what it takes to conduct clinical trials from a [...]

Informed consent and compensation to victims set to drive more volunteers and patients for clinical trials

 January 28, 2012, 0800 IST – Source : PharmaBizNews The Union government’s stringent regulations on seeking informed consent and providing compensation to clinical trial victims would increase the number of volunteers and patients going for a trial in India, according to experts. According to Dr Bhanu Priya, director and head, clinical research, G7 Synergon Life [...]

ICMR begins process for further research in the field of stem cell research and therapy

January 30, 2012, 0800 IST – Source : PharmaBizNews Even as the National Apex Committee for Stem Cell Research and Therapy (NAC-SCRT) has recently announced that only haematopoietic stem cell transplants for blood diseases and limbal stem cell transplants for corneal diseases can be performed as standard therapy outside of clinical trials in India, the [...]

Illiterate women lured secretly by clinical trial firms in Andhra Pradesh

February 03, 2012, 0800 IST  – Source : Pharmabiz News A 55-year old illiterate woman, Sabavath Chilkamma, who volunteered as a clinical trial subject from Bhavanikunta tanda of Wardhannapeta mandal in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, had lost her life due to multiple organ failure. The unknown clinical trial company had offered to pay her [...]