India's drug pricing regulator has given green signal to increase the maximum retail price of at least 21 drugs by up to 50 per cent.

Identified as 88-year-old woman Rajrani, she is believed to be in the business for decades. She overtook the business in 1990 from her husband, who died in the same year.

Three flight attendants were allegedly drugged and raped by the two pilots of a JetBlue plane during a layover between flights in May last year in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Strange and shocking! Injecting drugs may increase the risk of infective endocarditis, a serious infection of the lining of the heart. The infection is possibly linked to increasing use of the opioid hydromorphone, a new study reveals.

The Supreme court on Monday lifted a ban on the manufacture and sale of Piramal's painkiller Saridon and two other drugs - Piriton and Dart - for now.

Indeed a biggest contribution in the medicine industry! Students of the reputed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) of Delhi have developed a cheaper and effective medicine for neutralizing the toxic effect of a snake poison.

The CID Crime Branch of Gujarat Police on Wednesday arrested dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1996 case relating to falsely framing a lawyer in a narcotics peddling case.

Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on Wednesday that Tripura was a "hub of drug supplies" to other states during the previous Left Front government's rule.

The mayor of Ronda, a city in central Philippines, was shot dead on Wednesday morning when several men broke into his office, marking the 16th elected local official to be assassinated under the current administration.

Biologists have identified over 8,000 new combinations of antibiotics that are surprisingly more effective at killing harmful bacteria than the prevailing ones.