An 82-year-old man was killed while trying to rescue his son, a suspected drug peddler, from being attacked by a group of people at Bongaon in North 24-Parganas late on Sunday night.Locals said Raju S...

A 40-year-old man from Pathsala town in Barpeta district of lower Assam has embarked on a “superwalk” to raise awareness on drug addiction and depression among youths.Khanin Roy started his Pathsa...

Misnomers can, at times, be misleading. In spite of being known as the ‘pharmacy of the global south’, drug prices in India are prohibitive for vast sections of the population. Recent findings of ...

The 30 per cent cap on profit margins imposed by India’s drug pricing authority on 42 anti-cancer drugs will have a limited impact on patients’ expenses because many of these medicines’ prices r...

Bangladesh’s cabinet on Monday approved a draft law prescribing the death penalty for drug offences, despite widespread criticism over a drugs crackdown in which police have shot dead more than 200 ...

India’s drug regulators are investigating how and why a private vaccine maker released an oral polio vaccine containing the type-2 poliovirus, ordered withdrawn worldwide in April 2016 because it ca...