Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
EVEN as foreign companies continue to grab patents on traditional Indian herbal medicines, the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, has developed a memory drug extracted from the brahmi herb (Bacopa monniera). A 'memory plus' capsule, based on a 55 per cent solution of bacosides (a natural molecule comprising a …
After Japanese, American haemophiliacs have followed suit. They have turned down aUS $640 million settlement offer made by four major drug companies. An estimated 10,000 haemophiliacs in the US contracted the AIDS virus by injecting tainted blood-clotting products made by the companies in the early '80s. Attorneys representing the haemophiliacs …
DRUG development may not take as long as it once did. A new method of 'combinatorial chemistry' is being tested at a laboratory of Pharmacopeia Inc in Princeton, New Jersey, us. To rapidly screen scores of chemicals against diseases, combinatorial chemistry employs computers, robots and biotechnology research information to come …
THE increase of debilitating disorders, like asthma, may have sent shock waves amongst the human population worldwide, but has resulted in a windfall for the pharmaceutical industries the world over. The year past - 1995 - saw drug sales soaring to record levels: markets in the top nine countries including …
THE blue-blooded horseshoe crab found along the Orissa coast is set to change the face of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. These crabs, termed 'living fossils' because of their primitivity, produce a substance called lysate, which is used to establish the safety of a wide range of drugs and medical devices …
EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a new study done by the United Nations Development Programme. The study concretises what has been generally voiced by …
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THE pharmaceutical giants in the industrialised world are seriously hindering progressive research by refusiDgto share significant scientific data with the academics. They are jealously keeping information - garnered by their individual R&D; units - to themselves in a bid to prevent the rival companies from cashing in on it. For …
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In an effort to save the world's dwinilling stock of fish, pharmaceutical and nufritign products industry are turning towards algae-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Two firmis - Scotia Pharmaceuticals from Britain and Heliosynthese Research and Development from France - will harvest the PUFAs from microalgae grown in specially created photo-bioreacton …
Those tiny, unseeable lifeforms that one so puzzled about till a few decades ago are all set to take noticeable strides into our lives in the future...though they aren't exactly in a hurry. Today, fundamental scientific insights from molecular biology are beginning to feed into a string of bio-technological product …
WASTE WONDERS: This had to happen: domestic and other wastes can go into making objects of daily use. A Canadian company, Low Energies Extrusion Technologies, uses flyash, clay, wire scrap and woodchips to make paving stones, tiles, chair legs and table tops. The company is running a thriving business using …
THE US drug industry is in the grip of a "biotech fever". Drug giants are apparently scooping up shares in biotech companies. According to the latest reports, deals between pharmaceutical giants and biotech firms more than doubled in value over the past year. Affymax NV, the California-based biotech firm, for …
THE "liberalised" drug policy announced in September last year by the government came as a blow to the already overburdened consumers. A new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), issued on January 7, has removed 96 bulk drugs from the ambit of price control. Now that the increase in the prices …
A US $131 million-suit has been slapped on pharmaceutical giant Glaxo by 400 former patients. They claim that between 1944 and 1987, Myodil, a medical dye used in spinal x-rays, caused severe side effects like damaged nerve roots, acute pain and even partial paralysis. They also allege that Glaxo did …
The Union government plans to introduce a bill in the Parliament to institute a national drug authority which would monitor and control the manufacture and marketing of drugs in India. Although a formal announcement to this effect has yet to come from the government, the proposed formation of the body …
BRAIN tonics have proliferated in Pakistan. A report by the Association for the Rational Use of Medication has identified 20 brain tonics in Pakistan, which are freely promoted for a variety of ailments such as dizziness, memory loss, cerebrovascular impairments, and mental and physical retardation. However, the report warns that …
To foreign tourists, snake charmers symbolise the exotic East and all its mysteries. But snake charmers now have a more useful role to play than being just items of curiosity -- they have formed a cooperative to market snake venom to the drug industry. Snake catchers, who earlier earned a …
IN DISPOSING of its toxic wastes, the multinational pharmaceutical giant Sandoz has put into practice an ancient truth: fire purifies. In collaboration with the School of Energy at the Tiruchchirappalli-based Bharthidasan University in Tamil Nadu, it has developed a small-scale incinerator called Yagna Mark I, which became operational in April. …
US drug companies are responding to criticism of the high cost of prescription medicines by putting out a new message for consumers: "We are not out to fleece you. We are, in fact, toiling hard to 'discover' drugs that will cure terminal diseases". They have kicked off a television advertising …
