HEALTH

Basic research in drugs stressed
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 27 — India must start basic and clinical research, so that new drugs are discovered in India rather than copying the molecules made abroad. This was suggested by Dr A. Sankaranarayanan of Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad, while discussing the impact of the Patent Act and GATT agreement on the Indian pharmaceutical Industry on the last day of the national workshop on “Drugs and Patent Act.” In a lecture on “Statistical issues in clinical trials”, yesterday he pointed out that statistical issues are important for clinical trials, design of a trial, randomisation and in the final analysis.

Dr Bobby George from Dabur Research, Delhi, gave a lecture on Pharmacoeconomics. Dr Samir Malhotra spoke about ethical and legal issues in clinical trials, Dr M.C. Gupta, Associate Professor from Rohtak in his talk on “Drug Information Unit”, outlined the basic necessities for setting up a drug information unit.

Dr (Mrs) R. Uppla in her lecture on Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) stressed the need for documentation of the laboratory procedure.

Dr (Mrs) M. L. Dave of Rhone - Poulenc, Mumbai, said by avoiding bias in clinical trials gives credence to the results.

SPORT

Dev Samaj College win ball badminton meet
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 27— Dev Samaj College for women, Sector 45, and The Flankers Ball Badminton Club, won the women’s and men’s sections, respectively, of the 3rd Chandigarh Senior State Ball Badminton Championship held today at Dev Samaj College, Sector 45. Mr Tarlok Singh, an NRI, gave away prizes.

Finals—women: Dev Samaj College for women-45 b Shivalik Public school, 41, by 29-28, 29-21; third place: Guru Harkishan Public School-40 b Government High School, Sector 37, by 29-23, 29-8.

Men: Flankers Club b Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 38, by 29-15, 20-29, 29-19; third place: Khalsa club b MDAV, Sector 22 by 29-16, 21-29, 29-27.

Sonika and Monika Panjla (DSCW-45); Jagdeep Kaur and Monu (SPS-41); Anisha Bhatti (MCM DAVC-36); and Shiv Kumar (GSSS-38) were also honoured on the occasion.

Chess tourney
Naveen Jain and Jatinder Joshi were leading in the chess tournament organised by the Chandigarh Chess Association at Sports Complex, Sector 42. The point position at the end of the fifth round were: five pts: Naveen Jain and Jatinder Joshi; four points: Abhinandan Vohra, Anil Raina, Ashwani Kumar, Sanjeev Biswas, Ms Swapan Biswas and Major Singh.

3.5 pts: Vipnesh Bhardwaj, Nitin, Naveen Bansal, Ripudaman, and CM Sharma.

3 pts: Chetan Vikas, Rohit Chodha, Mandeep Singh, Anmol Razdan, Amrish, Karma Angdui, Devendra Kumar, Rajan Gupta, Ashok Atwal, RS Nayak, Anil Upadhaya, M. Somananda and Vipan Negi. 2.5 pts: CM Oberai and Mohit Malhotra; 2 pts: Baijnath Prasad, Hari Lal Sharma, PR Kansal, Geeta Ram Kaushal, Mohinder Singh, Dhir Singh, Mandeep Kohli, Sahil Bhatia, Chakshu Madan, Inderjeet Singh, Raj Kumar, Rahul Walia, William Massey, Sunil Kumar, and Prabjeet Singh; 1.5 pts: RS Badwal; one pt: Madhusheel Arora, Amandeep Singla, Jay Bhatia, Pankaj Tiwari, Mayank Aggarwal, Deep Kumar, and Sandeep Verma; and zero pt: Utkarsh Sharma.