National List of Essential Medicines

Paracetamol, Azithromyci prices to increase by 10.7% from April

This means that the prices of nearly 800 scheduled medicines on the NLEM, which are used to treat fever, infections, skin diseases, high blood pressure, anaemia, and heart disease, will rise by 10.7 percent starting April 1.

Mar 26, 2022, 11:38 AM IST

Govt adds Cancer, HIV, Hepatitis C to list of essential medicines

The Government has added 106 drugs including that of Cancer, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C to the list of essential medicines.

Dec 26, 2015, 09:25 AM IST

More medicines to be cheaper as govt planning to extend essential drugs list

Making more drugs subject to price caps will draw the ire of global drugmakers like Pfizer Inc, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Abbott Laboratories.

Jun 24, 2014, 11:12 AM IST