Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
THE government will frame separate guidelines for developing gene-based therapies and inventing drugs and vaccines from natural sources such as human, animal or micro-organism. The move will distinguish approval process for undertaking pre-clinical experiments for biologics from chemicalbased drugs, an official in department of biotechnology (DBT) said. Biologics are medicines …
MAJORITY of exporters in India anticipate a flat growth or a decline in exports in 2009-10, as per a Ficci survey. Of those who participated in the survey, 61% said they expect exports to decline or remain at the same level as last year. Engineering goods, gems & jewellery, chemicals, …
THE government has said that it will prepare the domestic drug industry to meet new regulatory challenges in the US market that arose due to the implementation of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Globalisation Act 2009. An unaware domestic firm may face the threat of losing authorisation for marketing …
A polypill, which comprises of three blood-pressure-lowering drugs and a statin, aspirin, and folic acid, can cut the rates of heart attacks and strokes by half in healthy middle-aged and older people, a major trial in India has revealed. The trial of the polypill was held in 50 centres in …
KOLKATA, March 29: The state government has accepted that misdiagnosis and erroneous treatment has helped the spread of multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis. The state health department is all set to issue an order directing the doctors to follow the norms of the revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in their treatment …
IF THE European Union does not allow Indian drugs to transit through its customs even after bilateral negotiations, New Delhi will drag Brussels to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for redressal, government officials here said.
Gene patents are meant to encourage innovation, but in DNA diagnostics, they have stirred controversy. Amid worries and worst-case scenarios, there are few empirical studies to help form an accurate picture of how patents affect clinical genetic testing in the United States. The authors assembled eight case studies addressing the …
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is used in the treatment of common cold, allergies and respiratory disorders. It is also helpful in healing wounds. It has antioxidant activity and prevents the cell membrane of vital organs from getting damaged due to oxidation. Though vitamin C is a small-product category with annual …
Washington: As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. Drug industry advocates are quietly allying with some of their longtime critics pushing to split the Food and …
Mumbai: There is a growing belief among experts that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), and its deadlier cousin, the extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR), may soon become bigger threats than HIV-AIDS. Yet these new strains of TB do not find any mention in the national TB control programme. Worse, Mumbai has no …
Patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and those with damaged lungs have good news. A new effective drug is in the offing for curing lungs damaged by pollution and smoking. Presently, the drug is under animal trial and soon the human trial phase will be undertaken. Research scientist Irfan …
V NarayanaMurthi VELLORE: The Christian Medical College Hospital (CMCH), in association with the National TB Division attached to the Union Ministry of Health, is all set to launch a pilot project
Will the combo drug succeed? Clinical trial of a combination vaccine against AIDS has begun in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research, the body governing biomedical research in India, is selecting volunteers for the trial. ADVAX and tbc-m 4 vaccines have been tested individually and now the researchers are …
