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Topic: Health

Why in the news?

  • The license of a Rajasthan-based company to manufacture ‘Insulin Tablets’, a homeopathic proprietary medicine, has been cancelled. 
  • This follows a complaint filed by a Kerala-based RTI activist with the Prime Minister’s public grievance cell stating that the manufacture of these tablets was in violation of Section 106 A(C) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945.

Source: The Hindu 

About Insulin:

  • Insulin is a naturally occurring hormone made in pancreas that’s essential for allowing the body to use sugar (glucose) for energy. 
    • If the pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or the body doesn’t use insulin properly, it leads to high blood sugar levels. This results in diabetes.
  • There are also manufactured types of insulin that people with diabetes use to manage the condition.
  • Insulin moves glucose from blood into cells all over the body. 
    • Glucose is the body’s main and preferred source of energy.
  • Insulin lowers blood sugar level. 
  • It is produced in the pancreas. More specifically, beta cells in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas make the hormone. It is the endocrine function of pancreas, to release insulin directly into the bloodstream.
  • Diabetes results from a lack of functional insulin, which leads to high blood sugar.

Diabetes:

  • It is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas can no longer make insulin, or the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces.
  • Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood glucose.
  • Types of Diabetes:
    • Type 1 diabetes: It often starts in childhood, occurs when the pancreas do not produce insulin (or enough insulin).
    • Type 2 diabetes: It results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin that it produces.
    • Gestational diabetes (GDM): It consists of high blood glucose during pregnancy and is associated with complications for both mother and child. 

Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945:

  • These are the rules established by the government of India for the implementation of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. 
  • These rules classify drugs under given schedules and present guidelines for the storage, sale, display and prescription of each schedule.
  • These rules have provisions for classification of drugs under given schedules and there are guidelines for the storage, sale, display and prescription of each schedule.
    • The Rule 67 details the conditions of licenses. 
    • The Rule 97 contains the labeling regulations.

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