The allegation that freebies worth over Rs 1,000 crore were paid to the doctors for prescribing an irrational dose of popular fever drug Dolo-650 during the Covid-19 waves exposes the deeply-entrenched corruption in pharmaceutical marketing. The brazen indulgence in unethical practices also brings the conduct of the drug regulatory system under scanner. While the market […]
New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has made several healthcare and pharma players billionaires and the makers of Dolo-650 — the most prescribed medicine during the pandemic having sold more than 350 crore pills since the Covid outbreak in March 2020 — are raking in the moolah too. As per the data from healthcare research firm […]
Hyderabad: “First week of January really went from ‘Happy New Year’ to ‘I got fever’,” is a popular meme on social media right now! Covid cases in the country are increasingly rapidly — all credit to the new variant Omicron. There are several people complaining of fever, cold, cough and throat infection and it’s not […]
