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 …
Celltech, the UK-based biotech firm, has tested a new drug against rheumatoid arthritis. Thegeneti- cally engineered drugCDP 571, is based on a synthetic antibody. The antibody blocks the action of the protein that attacks the joints of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers ( The Eastern Phannacist, Vo138, No 453). When tried on …
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding (Mou) between the Tropical Botanical Gardens and Research Institute (TBGRI) and two private companies, the Madras-based Velvette International Pharma Products and Arya Vaidya Pharmacy of Coimbatore, to be signed on July 22, was stalled recently. Last minute political maneouverings from certain sections forced the state government …
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has launched a public awareness cam- paign aimed at debunking traditional beliefs that fuel the demand for tiger products in South Asia. Chinese medicine uses tiger parts to heal ailments ranging from backaches to poor eye- sight. Millions of Asian viewers have been …
PREVENTION, rather than cure could become the norm in the West if modern biotechnology has its way. Several big multinational drug firms such as Hoechst, Merck and Glaxo Wellcome are trying their best to manufacture drugs that keep cells from malfunctioning. This is done by blocking the signal that causes …
EVEN the malevolent AIDS virus has its Achilles heel. Australian scientific circles are abuzz with the discovery of a rare strain of the virus among a small group of people in Australia who not developed the killer disease de. having carried the virus for around years. The finding represents a …
BIOTECH firms'in the us are elated about a new government cliktat that would help them deal with the Food and Drug Administration's bureaucratic machinery faster than before. Once the rules are implemented, biotech companies will no longer have to file separate applications for new drugs and for the manufacturing facilities …
EDWARD A Neuwclt and his colleagues at the Oregon 1-iealth Sciences University in Portland have recorded success in transporting potentially therapeutic viruses into the grey matter of rats - a finding that has far reaching implications for the treatment of brain tumours. The shortcomings of surgery and chemotherapy especially highlight …
THUS much maligned drug thalidomide - flushed from the market in the '60s, after a furore over birth defects associated with it - is back. Although touted as an experimental treatment for fatality inducing conditions associated with cancer, organ transplants, Alus anti other diseases, a strong anti-thalidomide lobby has emerged …
In July this year, a physician called Gary Pearce of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of New South Wales, wrote to Vaidya Baiendu Prakash asking him to immediately stop his metal therapy as it contained proven toxic substances like arsenic and mercury. He said it was folly to confuse the …
Tantric practitioners experimented with achieving physicl immortality. The by-products of these experiments were adopted into ayurvecia as medicines. Kaflali, the black sulphide of mercury which is the basis of a wide variety of Ayurvedic medicines! mentioned in the 7th century treatise Ashfanga Hrdaya by Vagabhata. By the time Sharngadhara wrote …
Metals to medicines is an elaborate affair- For the medicines to be effective. it is important to get the right material. First one has to ascertain the typo and geographical source of the Pro, scribed minerals and herbs. For Instance, an iron are found'in Rajasthan may be more 'potent' than …
WHAT is the role of metals in human health? Ten-year-old Salman had blood cancer. Physicians at the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences, gave him not more than three days. In desperation, his parents took to him to an ayurvedic physician, who administered a concoction containing mercury, arsenic …
Africa is hardly synonymous with world class science. However, there are occasional islands of excellence such as the Malaria Research and Training Centre (MRTC) in Bamako, Mali. The principal activity of the MRTC is tracking the spread of resistance to available drugs. Among its achievements is a method for testing …
EUROPEAN pharmaceutical companies, specially those based in Germany and are bell bent on blocking the of the low priced Spanish and wipme drugs in the European Union When Spain and Germany sed the Eu in 1985, their drugs were Red bemuse neither country offered at protection for pharmaceuticals. IM both …
IN A long belated move, the Drugs Controller of India early October instructed all state controlling and licensing authorities to ensure that fixed dose combinations of drugs are not sold anywhere. The rule is likely to be extended to cover the manufacture and marketing of fixed dose combinations of modern …
RESEARCHERS are now preparing a Unique"cocktail" to cure those unfortunate me ones stricken by the deathly dis, AIDS. Scientists working with the Vju' scheme, sponsored by medical 0stch agencies in Australia and 7 mpean countries - Britain, Ireland, pice, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands d Switzerland - have come up with …
Scientists at the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently suggested a new vaccine for blood flukes (Schistosoma mansoni) that cause snail fever in humans. The disease manifests itself by an excessive deposition of connective tissue in the liver, a condition known as fibrosis; the research team has …
Arthritis patients have a cause to celebrate. A group of British researchers confirm that treatment with low dose of steroids can prevent the progress of arthritis in people who are just exhibiting the early symptoms of the disease. The study suggests for the first time that bone and cartilage deterioration …
Your institute has been trying to revive the traditional medicines in India. What have been the specific steps taken to popularise ethnomedicine? Have they been successful? Today, there's a revival of interest in traditional medicines and herbal therapy the world over. An overgrowing number of scientists are turning to nature, …
SOS: AIDs, a play being staged in Bombay by Spotlight, a group of concerned theatre professionals, gets across the " .. message: AIDS IS not Just a disease that happens to someone else. It can happen to you. And as there is no cure, it is pretty obvious that vigilance …
