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 has put in place a new patent regime in January 2005 keeping in line with the WTO commitments. Under the regime a 20 year product patent regime was introduced for food, drugs and chemicals. At the same time, adequate safeguards were introduced to protect the interests of domestic …
SC HAS SENT NOTICE TO HEALTH MIN ON SUSPENSION OF DRUG PSUs Khomba Singh & Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI PRIVATE vaccine manufacturers have asked the government to hike the procurement price of vaccines claiming it is unviable to supply the medicines at the current prices. The government procures the entire …
SIVAGANGA: Development and spread of parasites that were drug resistant were a main threat to productivity and sustainability of livestock-based agriculture industry, said Dr. Gerry Brennan of Queen
NPPA Refers 39 Long-Pending & Big Cases Of Overcharging To States As It Manages To Recover Only 10% Dues Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI DRUGMAKERS, such as Dr Reddy
New Delhi: There are no laws at present to penalize and monitor pharma companies, which have messed up or violated norms while conducting global clinical trials for testing drugs in India to avoid instances like patients
Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP New Delhi: The government might have reversed its decision to shut down three public sector vaccine manufacturing units following a public furore, but what
HST-1 helps manage side-effects of cancer treatment an antioxidant called resveratrol, found in plants like grapes, peanuts, spruce, lily and mulberries, is known to be a good anticancer agent but it decelerates ulcer healing. Cancer patients are given pain killers that cause ulcers as side-effects. Hence resveratrol cannot be given …
Your body already has it; just eat some berries SWALLOWING an aspirin tablet, every time you have a headache, might not be necessary anymore. You could simply let your body produce its own. Fortifying yourself with some fruits, preferably berries, might be useful. This comes in the wake of a …
Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent …
Increasingly, voices across the world are questioning the narrow approach to a single disease, especially the huge financing for AIDS over all else in basic healthcare. Though welcome and long overdue, this debate must now move further.
A method has been developed and validated for the simultaneous analysis of different veterinary drug residues (macrolides, tetracyclines, quinolones, and sulfonamides) in honey. Honey samples were dissolved with Na2EDTA, and veterinary residues were extracted from the supernatant by solid-phase extraction (SPE), using OASIS HLB cartridges. The separation and determination was …
Feb. 2: Indian scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by developing a single drug that can cure tuberculosis. At present, TB is treated using multi-drug therapy in which each drug targets different metabolic pathways in Mycobacterium, the causative pathogen, trying to cripple it. But the new compound developed jointly by …
MUMBAI: Unethical promotional expenditure in respect of marketing of drugs adopted by some players in the industry may push up drug prices to unreasonable levels, a top industry official said.
The participation of many organisations and countries in the development of new neglected disease products is a remarkable and welcome change from past decades of inertia and neglect. However, a broadening of funding efforts so that all who are able to contribute do so, and all diseases receive the attention …
This report is the product of a journalistic investigation on clinical trials. It set out to identify ethical concerns in clinical trials that were conducted in India and used for approval of new drugs in the European Union (EU). It was initiated after discussions with the health advocacy organisation Wemos …
28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition …
Patancheru (Medak, AP): Patancheru became a hub for largely unregulated chemical and drug factories in the 1980s, creating what is described locally as an
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 …
