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DCGI approves Hetero's Tocilizumab for treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 6 (ANI): Hetero announced on Monday that the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its generic version of Tocilizumab in India for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalised adults.
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COVID-19: Govt increases import of Tocilizumab injection amid high demand
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): As many as 30,000 vials of Tocilizumab, a drug often prescribed by doctors to treat COVID-19 patients, were imported to India within 11 days by the Central government to cater to the increasing demand across the country due to rising cases.
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Obligation of Delhi govt to provide beds with ventilator facility: High Co
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that there are many people who are infected with the COVID-19 but could not approach the Court, thereby making it clear that the Delhi Government shall provide medical treatment to everyone who needs, observing that medica
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Mamata urges PM Modi to ensure adequate supply of vaccines, oxygen, Remdes
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 5 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday requesting him to ensure adequate supply of COVID vaccines, medical oxygen, and drugs like Remdesivir and Tocilizumab to the state.
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Odisha forms panel over use of Tocilizumab, other drugs for COVID-19 patie
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 1 (ANI): The Odisha government on Friday constituted an expert committee for taking decision on the use of Tocilizumab and other new drugs for COVID patients at treatment facilities in the state.
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Mamata writes to PM Modi requesting 5.4 cr doses of COVID-19 vaccine for B
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 18 (ANI): As COVID-19 cases across the country continue to rise at an alarming rate, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested the Centre for the supply of 5.4 crore more doses of COVID-19 vac
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COVID-19: Indiscriminate use of Remdesivir and Tocilizumab can cause more
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): While the Central government has indicated drugs like Remdesivir and Tocilizumab as an "investigational therapies" for the treatment of hospitalized coronavirus patient, the Union health ministry has alarmed all states, union territories and medical college
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Health Ministry issues fresh clinical management protocol for COVID-19 pat
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 13 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry issued a fresh clinical management protocol for COVID-19 patients on Saturday. As per the latest protocol, the health ministry has described the use of investigational therapies--Remdesivir, Convalescent plasma, Tocilizumab, and
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Restricted, emergency use of Remdesivir, Tocilizumab likely for treating C
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Remdesivir, an antiviral drug and Tocilizumab, an immunomodulator, are being considered by the Union Health Ministry for 'restricted, emergency use' and on 'compassionate grounds' to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients.
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Tocilizumab drug may help fight severe coronavirus cases, study finds
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 30 (ANI): An antibody treatment, using the drug tocilizumab, may be represented as an effective option in severe coronavirus cases, according to a preliminary report by Xiaoling Xu et al, published in PNAS.
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