Pharmaceuticals policy

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West Africa’s Fight To Keep Bad Medicine Off Shelves

As West Africa declares war on the market for expired and counterfeit medicines, start-ups are putting quality control...

News

Namoale Hit Out At FDA Over Laxity In Prosecuting Fake Food and Drug Dealers

Former Food and Agric minister, Nii Amansah Namoale, has hit out at the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) over its seeming...

News

Ban Importation of Pharmaceutical Labels Too

The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has called for a ban on importation of pharmaceutical...

News

FDA Approves Adonko Bitters TV Advert

The Food and Drugs Authority has given clearance to producers of Adonko Bitters to proceed with television...

News

Adonko Adverts Still Being Aired Despite FDA Ban

Advertisements of Adonko are still being aired on various media networks especially radio stations despite the...

International

Nigeria Certifies Fanta, Sprite Safe For Consumption

The Federal Ministry of Health yesterday put the controversy over the status of Fanta and Sprite to rest. The ministry...

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FDA Denies Poisonous Drugs On the Market

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) on Thursday said, there was no poisonous drugs on the Ghanaian market as being...

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FDA Denies Poisonous Drugs On the Market

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) on Thursday said, there was no poisonous drugs on the Ghanaian market as being...

Headlines

Skyrocketing Drug Prices Key Question In Trump Health Care Reform

Amid the drive to repeal and replace Obamacare, the question remains whether President Donald Trump and the...

Headlines

Antibiotic-Free Meat Gets A Foothold In US

Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are...

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Ghana Not the 6th Fake Producer of Drugs

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has described as shocking the rating of Ghana as the 6th fake drug producer....

Headlines

Teams Broke Drug Laws In Peddling Painkillers To Players

National Football League teams violated federal laws on prescription drugs in peddling powerful painkillers and...

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Ignore Poisonous Drugs Publication- FDA

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is calling on the public to ignore media publications suggesting that poisonous...

Business

Ghana Ranked 6th Fake Drug Producer

The fake drug market, worth over 400 billion euros, is more profitable than the sale of illicit drugs. The World Health...

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NHIA Meets Stakeholders To Review Prices of Listed Medicines For 2017

A two-day forum to review the prices of medicines on the NHIS Medicines List has ended in Accra. The annually convened...

International

World’s Most Threatening Superbugs Ranked In New List

The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human...

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Sale of Expired Drugs Criminal

Mr. Isaac Adupong, Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has reminded health...

Business

Pharmaceutical Firms Target 60% Market Supply

Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are scaling up their investment in plants, machinery and new technologies in order...

Business

1.2bn NHIS Debt Crippling Pharmaceutical Industry

Local pharmaceutical manufacturers have expressed worry over outstanding debts owed drug suppliers by the National...