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
EU detects antibiotic residues in Indian consignments
The rampant, often-frivolous use of antibiotics over the past half-century has made us dramatically more vulnerable today.
Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector
Eleven potential bacterial probiotic isolates of Enterococcus, Bacillus and Lactobacillus spp. were examined for their antagonistic activity against standard antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria.
New Delhi: India might have vehemently opposed an antibiotic-resistant superbug being named New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM1), but a study in a leading city hospital has found a worryingly high
South-East Asia Region Health Ministers meet in Jaipur Meetings of the Health Ministers of South-East Asian Region (SEAR) and the 64th session of the regional committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) opened here on Tuesday with a call to the world to wake up to the challenges posed by overuse and misuse of antibiotics and the increasing threat to human health from non-communicable diseases.
South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Yonhap news agency
PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.
Whenever a patient with bleeding in the stomach or a child whose fever has not subsided in a week is admitted into Sasaram-based physician B.B. Singh’s clinic, he immediately knows that it’s a case of
As Chikungunya turns active in the country after a gap of four decades, health experts say that there could be severe complications if patients go in for an overdose of antibiotics and other
Ciprofloxacin has become the antibiotic of choice for the treatment of typhoid fever with the emergence and worldwide spread of Salmonella enterica typhi strains resistant to chloramphenicol. However, the rampant use of ciprofloxacin gradually led to an increase in its minimum inhibitory concentration against S. enterica typhi.
A method using liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) for the determination of trace levels of five macrolide antibiotics (spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin) in eggs is presented.
When Alexander Fleming discovered pencillin in 1928 he could hardly have imagined that one day the world would be battling drug resistant superbugs with genes like New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), which can render the most intensive antibiotic treatments ineffective. About 4.4 lakh new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emerge annually, causing at least 1.5 lakh deaths.
New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has told the state government that it is not equipped to test water samples for the NDM1 gene that makes normal bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics. The confession was made when Delhi Jal Board officials were asked to explain their sample collection and testing procedures in a meeting on Tuesday which was attended by senior officials from the Mun
The sanatorium was central to tuberculosis treatment in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The long-drawn nature of treatment and the highly infectious nature of the disease made the sanatorium regimen effective and popular before antibiotics entered the scene. The sanatorium was not just a hospital, it was a social world
<p>A child with chest pain or tics, a toddler who is limping, a 12-year-old girl with abdominal pain or headaches, an infant whose fever does not respond to antibiotics — these are age-old challenges that pediatricians face.
Typhoid bacterium resilient to antibiotics
Luc Montagnier is applying unorthodox ideas to the treatment of autism. With support from the Autism Research Institute (ARI), based in San Diego, California, the Nobel laureate is about to launch a small clinical trial of prolonged antibiotic treatment in children with autism disorders.
A new generation of drugs made from nature, from antibiotics to treatments for cancer, may be lost unless the world acts to stop biodiversity loss, according to a new book. These developments could come from chemicals made by frogs, bears and pine trees, but the authors of "Sustaining Life" warned that species loss from climate change and pollution would hit the future of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.
