Honey safety norms in place soon
The government is putting in place safety standards for honey after it has been found that lots, even those sold by top brands, had traces of antibiotics and pesticides in them. The Food And Safety
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Molecular diagnostics for Gonorrhoea: Implications for antimicrobial resistance and the threat of untreatable Gonorrhoea
<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is making the clinical management of infections such as gonorrhoea increasingly difficult worldwide. In between the discovery of penicillin and the emergence of multidrug
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vegetables, fruits can block early asthma
Eating vegetables and fruits, breastfeeding, avoiding fast food and rational use of antibiotics in the first year of life may reduce the risk of asthma and wheezing in children, a new study has said.
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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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Doctors warn against overuse of painkillers, antibiotics
A three-day national conference on non-communicable diseases in the Capital concluded with medical experts warning people against the inappropriate use of drugs like painkillers and antibiotics.The
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Pig Disease Throws Spotlight on Use of Antibiotics
The spread of a pig-borne disease in southwest China and the high death toll have thrown the spotlight on the widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in Asia, giving the bacterium added
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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