Prof Dodoo Appointed Head of Ghana Standards Authority
A clinical pharmacologist and pharmacist, with extensive experience in drug safety, vaccine safety, harmonisation initiatives, Professor Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo ...
Tag: Pharmaceuticals policy
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 in the ...
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 ...
Ban Importation of Pharmaceutical Labels Too
The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has called for a ban on importation of pharmaceutical labels following ...
FDA Approves Adonko Bitters TV Advert
The Food and Drugs Authority has given clearance to producers of Adonko Bitters to proceed with television advertisement of the ...
Adonko Adverts Still Being Aired Despite FDA Ban
Advertisements of Adonko are still being aired on various media networks especially radio stations despite the sanctions applied on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Republican-led Congress can ...
Antibiotic-Free Meat Gets A Foothold In US
Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are moving to limit antibiotics in ...
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. ...
Teams Broke Drug Laws In Peddling Painkillers To Players
National Football League teams violated federal laws on prescription drugs in peddling powerful painkillers and anti-inflammatories to players, according to ...
Ignore Poisonous Drugs Publication- FDA
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is calling on the public to ignore media publications suggesting that poisonous drugs have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sale of Expired Drugs Criminal
Mr. Isaac Adupong, Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has reminded health professionals that selling ...
Pharmaceutical Firms Target 60% Market Supply
Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are scaling up their investment in plants, machinery and new technologies in order to increase their share ...
1.2bn NHIS Debt Crippling Pharmaceutical Industry
Local pharmaceutical manufacturers have expressed worry over outstanding debts owed drug suppliers by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), saying ...