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 …
For the past nine years, the drug company Novartis has been selling Coartem, one of the most effective antimalarials on the market, to public-health officials in the developing world at a loss totaling more than $253 million
BY LALIT K. JHA WASHINGTON Leading US Senators announced on Wednesday that they are introducing a legislation in the Senate which would make mandatory US inspection of drug manufacturing plants anywhere in the world that supply medicines to them. Since, India and China account for major quantum of medicine supplied …
The Independent Commission on Development and Health in India has released a report that reveals an average Indian directs 75 per cent of his total healthcare expenditure just to meet the cost of therapeutic drugs. All thanks to continued overcharging by pharmaceutical firms, poor public spending in the private sector …
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Monday criticised the Sheila Dikshit-led Delhi Government in view of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India's report on the various schemes including the Bus Rapid Transit Project (BRT), supply of medicine in hospitals and power supply. Malhotra said …
Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI THE government plans to invest up to $2 billion, or Rs 10,000 crore, annually to develop more effective medicines for diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis that hit thousands of Indians every year. Multinational drug makers with deep pockets are not interested in carrying out research …
Science 2.0 is here as CSIR resorts to open source drug research for TB Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi March 1, 2009, 0:23 IST A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money. Call it …
Tuberculosis is growing in many places, and strains resistant to all existing drugs are emerging. To fight back, biologists are applying a host of cutting-edge drug development strategies.
The marine environment is one of the most fascinating realm. Due to the physical and chemical conditions of the marine environment, almost every class of marine organism exhibits variety of molecules with unique structural features, which are not found in terrestrial natural products. Today researchers have isolated approximately 11,000 marine-derived …
chemical sciences Sugars preserve organs longer Growth of ice crystals during organ preservation at low temperatures leaves them unfit for transplantation. Several carbohydrates have the ability to prevent the growth of ice crystals. This ability correlates with the hydration number which is the number of water molecules bound to one …
Patent bill may be pushed through Parliament without debate THE Ministry of Science and Technology has introduced a bill in the Parliament that may make life-saving drugs unaffordable for poor people. The bill gives scientists and researchers in government-funded universities the right to patent innovations and research outcomes. This includes …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has pulled up the department of health and family welfare for its lackadaisical approach which led to excessive spending running into hundreds of crores. As per the report, at all the hospitals including GB Pant Hospital, LNJP Hospital, DDU Hospital, IHBAS, GTB etc., frequent extensions …
