The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wsahington, DC, on Friday rejected GlaxoSmithKline Plc's bid to salvage patent protection for its antibiotic Augmentin, once its second-biggest selling
The use of antibiotics and other anti-microbial agents throughout the food chain contributes to the growth of resistant bacteria that can be passed on to humans through food, EU's food agency said on Thursday. The resistance of bacteria has become a growing concern as anti-microbials become less effective in fighting infections, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said in a statement.
European Union vetshave lifted the bloc's import ban on poultry from Thailand, ruling that there is no longer any increased risk of residues of a cancer-causing antibiotic in the food, officials said
In a major boost to a UN campaign to eradicate and eye infection that causes blindness, pfizer announced that it will provide a free antibiotic to treat about 90% of the 150 million people
The drug company Pfizer is donating more than $500 million worth of an antibiotic to fight trachoma, the world's leading cause of
New Delhi: Over-the-counter sale of around 92 antibiotic and anti-tuberculosis drugs in India will be restricted soon. Drug Controller General of India G N Singh has written to the Union health minister
New study reveals alarming levels in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to four powerful antibiotics Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR- TB) is increasing due to expanded use of second-line drugs in people suffering from multidrug-resistant (MDR) diseases, reveals a new study. This large, prospective study of resistance to second-line drugs for MDR-TB shows that the prevalence of resistance is high (43.7 per cent) and that the risk of XDR-TB (6.7 per cent) in the eight countries studied is worrying.
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment
<p>Antimicrobials used in salmon aquaculture pass into the marine environment. This could have negative impacts on marine environmental biodiversity, and on terrestrial animal and human health as a result
Do not use antibiotics every time you sneeze, researchers at the National Public Health Institute of Finland have advised patients suffering from symptoms of common cold. A new study confirms that
Govt Effort To Promote Generics Has Failed New Delhi: The Delhi Government’s attempt to curb overuse of antibiotics and promote generic drugs in hospitals has failed to enthuse doctors. A sample study
While small molecule inhibitors of the bacterial ribosome have been instrumental in understanding protein translation, no such probes exist to study ribosome biogenesis. We screened a diverse chemical
New antibiotic may work where others have failed
Ban on imports likely from April. Alleging the presence of antibiotics and heavy metal residues in Indian honey, the European Union has threatened to ban such imports from next month, official sources told Business Line.
Giving zinc as a supplement along with antibiotics can significantly reduce mortality by lowering treatment failure in children suffering from serious infections such as pneumonia and meningitis, according
The present investigation was undertaken in order to isolate bacteria from eighteen different water samples collected from three different sectors of ‘Chilika’ lagoon of India and to study the resistance
Reema Narendran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In what could be described as a major potential health hazard, the bacteria in the Pampa river is becoming resistant to almost all the antibiotics that are used commonly, a study report by a team of scientists in the Kerala University found.
Honey might be no longer `nectar' for users. For, a test conducted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found that it was more of a sugar served with antibiotics. The genuineness of the honey notwithstanding,
The Health Ministry has decided to ban serological diagnostic test for tuberculosis, in line with a World Health Organisation recommendation. India is going to become the first country to execute the ban
<p>Very high levels of a range of pharmaceuticals have been reported recently in the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant near Hyderabad, India. The plant serves approximately 90 manufacturers of
