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 …
Action Plan To Fight Malaria, TB Adopted The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a new global strategy to fight drug-resistant diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, urinary tract infection and even HIV at the 68th World Health Assembly , a forum that serves as the agency's highest decision-making body . It …
GENEVA — United Nations member states agreed Monday to a plan to tackle resistance to antibiotic drugs, spurred by warnings of a catastrophe for public health and heavy economic losses if they did not act. The plan is due to be adopted Tuesday at a plenary session of the World …
Three new type-2 diabetes medicines, two of which were recently launched in India, have come under the scanner of the US drug regulator for potential risk of causing acidosis that could require hospitalization. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned medical professionals and patients that type-2 diabetes medicines …
In 2012, an Indian parliamentary committee reported that manufacturing licenses for large numbers of fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs had been issued by state authorities without prior approval of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) in violation of rules, and considered that some ambiguity until 1 May 2002 about …
China is to increase health care subsidies by 19 percent this year as part of efforts to deepen social reforms and strengthen safety nets, the government said at the weekend. Government health care subsidies for qualified urban and rural residents will be raised to 380 yuan (US$61.22), from 320 yuan …
Monrovia — With no Ebola case reported nearly two months and less than three days left for Liberia to be declared Ebola free, the country has completed Phase Two of the experimental Ebola vaccines. "As of April 30 2015, we have completed the vaccination of one thousand five hundred; there …
A trial of a malaria vaccine that targets the most dangerous variety of parasite that causes the disease has shown some positive early results. The vaccine, developed at Oxford University, was 67% effective in a study of 121 men in Kenya, it found. Encouraging results have now been recorded for …
AFRICAN countries are the most affected by the growing global drug resistance to malaria and tuberculosis (TB), a situation, which is compounded by incomplete data due to lack of information and poor quality medicines. This is the verdict of a new World Health Organisation (WHO) survey published over the weekend. …
The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) provides free diagnostic and treatment services to all tuberculosis (TB) patients registered under it. Equitable access, implying a preference for the most hard-to-reach groups particularly for tribal areas, is a major concern for RNTCP. This study was conducted to assess the performance of …
Prices of branded drugs available in India should be brought down closer to the prices of their generic alternatives, requests a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) addressed to the union health ministry. The letter, sent in the second week of April, also requests the ministry to assess the …
The family Filoviridae contains three genera, Ebolavirus (EBOV), Marburg virus, and Cuevavirus. Some members of the EBOV genus, including Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV), can cause lethal haemorrhagic fever in humans. During 2014 an unprecedented ZEBOV outbreak occurred in West Africa and is still ongoing, resulting in over 10,000 deaths, and causing …
The presence of antimicrobial resistance “superbug” that rocked India a few years ago, is detected in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, noting that only 34 countries have national plans to fight the global threat of antibiotic resistance. Calling it as one of the …
Department will formulate guidelines on treating dengue patients, says Khader Minister for Health and Family Welfare U.T. Khader has said that the department will soon upload on its website a list of blood banks where platelets for dengue patients will be made available at free of cost. Addressing a gathering …
Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says. The body has repeatedly warned that the globe is heading into a "post-antibiotic era" in which much of modern medicine becomes impossible. Its report showed "a lot more needs to be done" …
Over a 2-year period, from 2013 to 2014, WHO undertook an initial “country situation analysis” in order to determine the extent to which effective practices and structures to address antimicrobial resistance have been put in place and where gaps remain. A survey was conducted in countries in all six WHO …
There is no licensed vaccine against malaria anywhere in the world at present Final clinical trials of a malaria vaccine - the first to reach this stage - suggest it could help protect millions of children against malaria. But tests on 16,000 children from seven African countries found that booster …
It's a major problem that's quickly becoming global: fake medicines. The threat of poor quality drugs that are being distributed in place of real medication is on the rise, and may undermine decades of successful efforts to combat disease. A group of editors of a collection of journal articles have …
In adults with acute stroke, infections occur commonly and are associated with an unfavourable functional outcome. In the Preventive Antibiotics in Stroke Study (PASS) we aimed to establish whether or not preventive antimicrobial therapy with a third-generation cephalosporin, ceftriaxone, improves functional outcome in patients with acute stroke.
Ebola virus and Marburg virus cause serious disease outbreaks with high case fatality rates. We aimed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of two investigational DNA vaccines, one (EBO vaccine) encoding Ebola virus Zaire and Sudan glycoproteins and one (MAR) encoding Marburg virus glycoprotein.
