New Delhi: The government has sought expressions of interest (EoI) for research & development (R&D) projects to develop novel technologies in medicine, including medical devices and drugs for communicable and non-communicable diseases. The focus will be on drug discovery for hypertension, lung disease, cancer, diabetes and rare diseases. The EoIs have been floated by the…
A ban on imports of refurbished medical devices, notified recently, by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), has sparked off a debate among domestic healthcare and medtech players. While some have welcomed the ban as a step towards boosting local manufacturing, others have pointed at the need for a formal policy to regulate imports…
To prevent misuse of raw materials collected from blood centres, the Union health ministry has issued new norms for domestic manufacturers of kits and medical devices requiring Transfusion-Transmissible Infection (TTI) sero reactive blood bags from blood centres as a raw material for preparing in vitro diagnostic (IVD) reagents. As part of the plan, every firm…
