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Niti Aayog has developed two bills to regulate and promote Indian medicine systems that include ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy and homeopathy.The bill of the National Commission for Indian Systems of Medicine (NCISM), 2017 will cover Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Sowa-Rigpa, yoga and naturopathy. The draft of the National Commission for Homeopathy Act of 2017 will also cover biochemical remedies.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the suspension was ordered for all drugs for which bioequivalence studies were conducted by Micro Therapeutic Research Labs at two sites in India. Comment from Micro Therapeutic Research Labs could not be obtained.

BeyondSpring Inc.  a global clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative cancer therapies, today announced that the Company’s Chief Medical Officer and Head of Business Development, Ramon Mohanlal, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., will present clinically and statistically significant data on BeyondSpring’s lead asset, Plinabulin, for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced Neutropenia at this year’s BIO-Europe Spring meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

the Chinese government approved a blueprint called “Healthy China 2030”, pledging to build a healthy China in the next 15 years. By 2030, the size of the healthcare market is expected to reach $2.3 trillion. This initiative is in line with China’s determination to deepen the supply-side structural reforms in 2017 by substantially driving down overcapacity, and increasing efficient supply which call for stricter standards in healthcare industry. The next 15 years will see a surge of investment and changes in the industry.

A question from the Parliament " regarding the influence of vaccine-makers on the immunisation plan" raised the issue of funding the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IPA), the body representing more than 23,000 pediatricians in India. A look at its finances shows how much depends on the IPA on the financing of the pharmaceutical industry, especially the vaccine manufacturers.

The draft National Strategic Plan for the Eradication of Tuberculosis (2017-2025), which will be implemented shortly, offers benefits that include Rs2,000 for patients visiting private sector physicians. The Center is considering incentives for private doctors treating TB patients, as well as financial benefits and free medicines for those visiting them as part of its "aggressive" strategy to eliminate the disease.

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In order to make the new HIV and hepatitis B and C drugs available to patients at the earliest, the government has decided to abandon some of the regulatory processes to accelerate approvals.

US President Donald Trump demanded that Republican MPs vote Friday on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

The government said it was working on measures to reduce India's dependence on large-scale imports of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), as members of Rajya Sabha expressed concern about question. Responding to zero-hour concerns, Trade Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the huge imports of pharmaceutical raw materials were a matter of serious concern.

A high-level committee recommended a new institutional framework for homeopathy and Ayurveda in India, continuing its efforts to rationalize the country's medical system. The Committee stated that the statutory bodies governing the education system have failed to attract qualified and qualified people based on merit due to lack of transparency.