PRICES of various brands of the same medicine vary. They vary depending on on the manufacturers. And, this suggests the absence of proper oversight on drug pricing. This remains a concern as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has only 117 essential drugs on its platter to set the maximum prices for. An earlier estimate shows that Bangladesh manufactures...
Prices of the identical generic drugs vary considerably from manufacturer to manufacturer in the country due to a lack of government oversight regarding drug pricing...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday arrested two youths allegedly engaged in drug dealing for attack on police in Karwan Bazar area of Dhaka city on Thursday...
Zambia has invited Bangladesh to explore the opportunities of establishing a pharmaceutical plant in its land while the southern African nation is keen to Bangladesh made pharmaceutical products...
The aim is to reduce or eliminate the amount paid by beneficiaries of Medicare, a health coverage program available to Americans over the age of 65...
A 54-year-old farmer was beaten to death, reportedly after attempting to stop a group of youths from consuming marijuana in Puthia village of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj on Tuesday night...
Zepbound, from drugmaker Eli Lilly, is already approved for people who are obese or overweight and have a related health condition, such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or high blood pressure...
A Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-jasod leader was killed during an anti-drug drive by the police on Friday night at Bheramara upazila in Kusthia.
CONSIDERING the growing inefficacies of antibiotics, a set of empirical studies has claimed that we are sliding back to the 鈥榩re-antibiotic era,鈥� highlighting the present and future crises borne out of antibiotic resistance. In today鈥檚 world, particularly in the global health discourse, antibiotic resistance has turned out to be a focal point of discussion due to its ominous public health concern. This is evident from seven...
At least 12 people, including top drug peddler Chua Selim鈥檚 close associates Mahbub and Irfan with arms, were arrested from the Urdu speaking people鈥檚 camp in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur in an army-led joint drive on Friday.
LOCAL markets having been flooded with substandard medical supplies, including surgical gloves, is gravely concerning as it poses severe risks to patients and healthcare professionals. Some quarters are alleged to be manufacturing and importing substandard and spurious surgical gloves and supplying them to hospitals and healthcare facilities...
At least 15 inmates were killed and 14 injured in clashes Tuesday at a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the latest in a series of massacres blamed on a war between drug cartels...
Three police personnel, including a sub-inspector, were withdrawn from Jibannagar police station in Chuadanga for alleged negligence in duty after an alleged drug peddler escaped from their custody.
Dhaka metropolitan police arrested 31 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6:00am on Monday...
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte strongly defended his deadly drug war as he testified on Monday at a senate probe of the crackdown...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a ban on importing pharmaceutical raw materials and selling foreign medicines without prior approval from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...
Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Md Motaher Hossain has sounded a note of warning against drug abusers in prisons, saying, 鈥楴o drug addict can do job in the Department of Prisons.鈥�...
Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, with the researchers urging action to avoid this grim scenario...
Home Adviser Lieutenant General 聽(retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has asked all concerned to bring the kingpins of illegal drug dealers across Bangladesh to book...
A Naogaon court on Wednesday sentenced two people to death in a drug case filed in 2023...
The Border Guard Bangladesh arrested a drug dealer with 1 kilogram of crystal meth at Ukhia in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Tuesday...
Quantum computing promises society-changing breakthroughs in drug development and tackling climate change and on an unassuming English high street, the race to unleash the latest tech revolution is gathering pace...
A new 鈥榲accine-like鈥� HIV drug that currently costs over $40,000 per person a year could be made for as little as $40, researchers estimated on Tuesday...
Speakers at a seminar in Dhaka鈥檚 Savar on Saturday said that due to the national drug policy, 98 per cent of the total drugs were being produced in the country...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a drug made by Eli Lilly on Tuesday that is designed to treat the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
A district court in Faridpur on Monday sentenced a policeman to life imprisonment in a drug peddling case....
A large fire broke out on Wednesday at an office building belonging to Danish pharmaceutical group Novo Nordisk, maker of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, Copenhagen鈥檚 fire service said...
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi announced Tuesday a partnership with ChatGPT-founder OpenAI and US biotech firm Formation Bio to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in developing drugs...
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat joined the first ministerial conference on drug trafficking and substance abuse in the Western Indian Ocean in Mauritius...
Considered to be one of the first cases in the history of Pakistan, the Rawalpindi Drug Court has awarded imprisonment and heavy fines to the CEO and other employees of a pharmaceutical company in a case involving a medicine that...