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Clinigene completes safety study on insulin vials

Bangalore, Dec 26 (UNI) Clinigene International Private Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of biopharma major Biocon has concluded a landmark post marketing results of Insugen evaluation (pride) studycovering 6,164 patients and 507 doctors.

The Company in a release here said today that the study was the largest documented safety study on insulin vials with 99 per cent of the doctors opined that safety with Insugen was at par with the leading marketed brands of insulin in the country.

The efficacy of Insugen in treating diabetes mellitus was as expected by the investigators the released said that the number of patients involved was in excess of the regulatory requirement of 500 patients as stipulated by the Drug Controller General of India.

Dr Arvind Attignal, Chief Operating Officer of Clinigene said in the release the study involved three formulations of Insugen covering subjects with all types of diabetes mellitus and those requiring insulin.

The response in terms of glycemic control was monitored by routine tests such as fasting and post prandial blood sugar.

Overall treatment with Insugen was administered to 334 patients with Type I diabetes and 5,555 with type II diabetes.

The study also called Phase studies were done as part of regulatory requirement to ascertain primarily the safety of the drug in addition to its efficacy.

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CPI-M activist shot dead by Maoists, life affected in bandh

West Midnapore, Dec 26 (UNI) A CPI-M activist was today killed and landmines were recovered from different places during the Maoist sponsored 24-hour bandh in Bankura, Purulia and parts of West Midnapore which affected life. Dipak Mahato(30), who recently left the Maoists to join the CPI(M), was killed near Bhimpur. He was shot at from a close range in Birghosa forest under Salboni Police Station. Police recovered two landmines from different places in the district here.....

Severe cold due to fresh snowfall disrupt normal life in Kashmir

Srinagar, Dec 26 (UNI) Severe cold due to fresh snowfall, coupled with frequent power failure, shortage of LPG gas and increase in the prices of essential commodities, has affected normal life in the Kashmir valley. Srinagar city, the summer capital of the state, witnessed light rains since early this morning resulting in considerable cold forcing people to remain indoor. The upper reaches in the Kashmir valley experienced fresh snowfall since last evening after the Western.....

BJP MLA injured in agitation against power shortage

Hyderabad, Dec 26 (UNI) BJP Floor Leader G Kishan Reddy received injuries while two hundred activists of the party were arrested when they tried to lay siege to the residence of the Information, Public Relations and Energy Minister Mohd Ali Shabbir in the city today, demanding nine hours of uninterrupted supply of power to farmers. Mr Reddy, who led the party activists from the city and neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, staged a dharna at.....
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