Shrimp consignments to Japan to carry lab reports
With Japan rejecting shrimp consignments having antibiotic residues coupled with the anti-dumping duty on Indian shrimps by the US, troubles for the growing aquaculture sector in the country are
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FDA alert on Abbott antibiotic
U.S. regulators alerted the public to a study showing a higher death rate among heart disease patients a year after taking an Abbott Laboratories Inc. antibiotic, as part of an effort to release
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WHO global surveillance and monitoring system for substandard and falsified medical products
<p>Approximately 10.5% of medicines in low and middle income countries including India are sub-standard and falsified, said WHO in this report.</p>
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Donations from national and international companies
GlaxoSmithKline has supplied free medicines including antibiotics, analgesics and topical anti bacterial worth over Rs.20 million to areas such as Islamabad, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Balakot and
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Scientists reveal how superbug kills
Researchers have revealed how a common hospital pathogen turns into a deadly superbug, killing more and more patients worldwide. A mutation in the Clostridium difficile causes potentially dangerous diarrhoea among indoor patients undergoing antibiotic therapy, according to Dena Lyras and Glen Carter from the Monash University School of Biomedical Sciences, who led the study.
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Govt admits presence of ‘Superbug’
Delhi Government has confirmed the prevalence of Superbug in the hospitals of Delhi. The bug has been found in the range of 0.04 per cent to 0.08 per cent. The Government, however, claims that the situation
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One-third of TB cases due to wrong drug use
One-third of tuberculosis patients fail to get cured because of the abuse or improper use of TB drugs. To combat this, the Intern-ational Pharmaceutical Federation has called on pharmacists and scientists to create awareness among patients about how to take their medication. If the doses are not taken as stipulated, or discontinued too early, antibiotic resistance builds up rendering the drug ineffective.
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Lupin to start marketing generic TB drug in US
Lupin Ltd, India's biggest maker of tuberculosis drugs, will start sales of its version of Roche Holding AG's antibiotic Rocephin in the US on Thursday, managing director Kamal Sharma said. Sales of
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Paracetamol, ciprofloxacin go dearer on input crunch
Prices of a range of widely used pharmaceutical products, including the painkiller pracetamol and antibiotics antinfective cirpofloxacin and ofloxacin have recorded an almost 100% increase during the
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Nigerians Receive First Payments for Children Who Died in 1996 Meningitis Drug Trial
The first payments were made Thursday to Nigerian families who lost children during a 1996 trial of an experimental meningitis drug, and Pfizer, which had tested the drug, a new antibiotic, said it was
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Antibiotics breakthrough for elephantiasis sufferes
British doctors say a cheap antibiotic wipes out the parasitic worms causing elephantiasis, a disease that afflicts over 120 million people in India, Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Elephantiasis cure found in cheap drug
British doctors say a cheap antibiotic wipes out the parastic worms that cause elephantiasis, a disease that afflicts more than 120 million people in India, Africa and Southeast Asia. Elephantiasis
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The earth security report 2017: Sustainable Development Goals for business diplomacy and growth
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/earth_index.jpg" style="width: 320px; height: 211px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />This global report maps 39 dimensions
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Govt steps up vigil on shrimp shipments
The Government authorities and seafood exporters have stepped up monitoring activities to detect presence of any banned antibiotics in shrimp after Japan has issued an alert. The Marine Products
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Antibiotics don't prevent second heart attacks
Treating heart attack victims with antibiotics does not reduce the risk of having a second heart attack or dying, according to two large trials reported Thursday in the New England Journal of
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Injection triggers allergic reaction in 40 infants
Atleast 40 infants admitted in Kalawati Saran Hospital suffered severe allergic reactions after being administered antibiotic injections, on Tuesday night, folowing which panicky parents manhandled
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Water pollution from agriculture: a global review- executive summary
<p>This executive summary of the FAO report, briefly reviews the “unsustainable trajectory followed by agri-food systems” and draws attention to “hotspots where crop production, livestock and aquaculture may be the key contributors to the degradation of water quality.”</p>
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Hybrid E.coli resistant to antibiotics'
A strain of E. coli spreading across Europe is a previously unseen variant of the bacterium, and one that is more virulent than seen before, health officials say. Scientists also said the new strain appeared likely to be resistant to common antibiotics. By June 2, 18 people had died and more than 2,000 had become infected from eating contaminated vegetables.
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UK cow milk carries variant of superbug
A new variant of a well-known antibiotic resistant superbug has been discovered in cow
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Outbreak of Infections Kills 10 in Germany
With 10 people dead of infection and 400 cases reported, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Sunday that a bacterial outbreak in northern Germany was one of the largest of its kind ever reported worldwide. The infection, from a strain of Escherichia coli, can lead to kidney failure and death and is difficult to treat with antibiotics, according to the Robert Koch Institu