The Pharmaceutical Advisory Forum, an official platform of all the stakeholders and consumers in the pharmaceutical sector under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, will be reconstituted soon with inclusion of more members from the pharma associations and consumer organisations.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has newly fixed or revised prices of 119 formulation packs and issued corrigendum orders on two insulin formulation packs for which it has revised prices in March, 2009.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has issued notices to 22 pharma companies across the country in the last three months seeking explanation for violating the price regulation by selling drugs in higher than the prices fixed by the authority.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines on pre-clinical and clinical studies for the Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU) medicines through a notification of draft rules adding new rule in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1945.