Rawalpindi: The prices of a wide range of medicines in Azad Bazar and Rawalpindi’s Bohar Bazar wholesale drug center have gone up sharply, increasing by 50% to 500%. Essential medicines, including those for diabetes and hypertension, antibiotics, stomach conditions and cough treatments, have all seen significant price increases. In the open market, the price of … Read more
You may want to leave this medicine alone. Calls to the nation’s poison centers about natural supplements marketed as energy boosters, mood enhancers and pain relievers have risen nearly 1,200% in the past decade, a new study has found. Hospitalizations, and even some deaths, have been looming, with health experts sounding the alarm over a … Read more
Last year, the Health Products Regulatory Agency (HPRA) seized more than 750,000 illegal medicines. Figures published by the HPRA confirm that a total of 763,027 food units were seized in 2025. Almost 14,000 individual packages were found to be associated with separate purchases by members of the public of illegal or counterfeit drugs, a threefold … Read more
A nationwide shortage of stimulant drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have less roots in prescribing practices or federal manufacturing quotas than in global supply chain disruptions. analysis Released late last week JAMA Health Forum. The study, led by researchers at Yale University, looked at possible reasons for the U.S. stimulus … Read more
Popular weight-loss drugs GLP-1 generally work well for people living with HIV, and they can improve heart, liver and gut health and reduce smoking in line with their known benefits for obesity and diabetes, according to studies presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026). However, much remains to be learned about … Read more
Latest update:March 23, 2026, 07:28 IST Cough syrups, diabetes medications, and vitamin supplements are among the unapproved prescribed dietary supplements detected in government laboratory tests. The drug was detected during the inspection of laboratory test data submitted through CDSCO’s online portal SUGAM for drug sample testing for the year 2025. (Image for display: X) India’s … Read more