Zinga Pharmaceutical Limited is expected to build a Sh70billion pharmaceutical factory in Bagamoyo District, Pwani Region in Tanzania. This has been made possible through a loan secured by UTT Asset Management and Investor Services (UTT AMIS).
The construction project is...
Tanzania Medicines and Medical Devices Authority (TMDA) has directed all patients taking medication with an active ingredient Ranitidine to stop their course of treatment after regulatory authorities found it contains an impurity that potentially causes cancer.
TMDA said the medicine...
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) in Tanzania has been tasked to slot into its schemes a sickle cell disease drug hydroxyurea produced by Swiss pharma giant Novartis, a move that could boost access of the life-saving treatment to...
Tanzania's private pharmaceutical market is projected to grow higher, with the majority of imports known to come from India, says a study.
Researchers analysed data on the sector’s market size, growth and share, therefore predicting its growth increase by 28%...
Monitoring, screening and administering preventive treatment to individuals who have been in contact with patients newly diagnosed with leprosy, helps curtail transmission of the bacterial infection, potentially reducing the global disease burden, a study says.
Researchers say they have evaluated...
Unethical practice in pharmacies goes unabated as researchers call for heightened surveillance
When abused, the drug could aggravate panic attacks, anxiety, agitation and acute psychosis
Recent crackdown on illegal dispensing of prescription-only drugs yet to bear fruit
Researchers...