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 …
This study seeks to assess the relative impact of patent status as a component of pharmaceutical prices while controlling other market and medicine characteristics on the retail prices of oncology medicines in Thailand. Ordinary Least-Squares (OLS) regression model of log prices as a function of supply and demand factors was …
In spite of significant progress made in tuberculosis (TB) control, nine million people developed TB disease in 2013, and 1.5 million died of TB. While implementation of the Stop TB (DOTS) Strategy has cured millions of patients with TB, and undoubtedly saved lives, the impact of this strategy on reducing …
India bears the largest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The TB prevention and control landscape in India is fraught with challenges at multiple levels, including low risk perception, lack of awareness, social stigma, an unregulated private sector and lack of treatment adherence. The Revised National TB Control Programme …
Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective for patients with high viral loads who are very sick with the disease The ongoing clinical trial, led …
Prolonged use of frontline blockbuster diabetic drug metformin can lead to side effects including reduced mental abilities, depression, breathlessness and extreme fatigue. A latest government-funded study on Indian population shows the drug triggers deficiency of vitamin B12 leading to neuropathy and microvascular complication and in the absence of regular nutritional …
DAKAR – A Japanese anti-Ebola drug being tested in Guinea should be made available across West Africa after initial trials showed it halved mortality rates in some patients, the medical charity administering it has said. Favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Japan’s Fujifilm to treat flu, has been used on …
• With swine flu cases continuing to rise in the country, the government on Tuesday decided to relax the availability of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) — the best defence against deadly H1N1 influenza. While, the drug is so far available in government hospitals, the government on Tuesday asked the states to make …
In what comes as a relief to the people of Delhi and health officials, the Capital has registered a fall in the number of swine flu cases. Tuesday witnessed only 71 cases. The total tally now stands at 1,679 cases since the beginning of the year. “Today, 494 tests were …
The H1N1 (swine flu) virus has not mutated and patients are still responding to Tamiflu, a joint study by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reveals. Swine flu has taken 585 lives in the country in the first two months of the …
A hundred more deaths over the last three days have taken the swine flu death toll 585. While the Centre has ordered additional stocks of medicines and diagnostic kits, hospitals have started running out of Tamiflu and protective masks. So far, 8,423 people have contracted swine flu this year in …
In many European countries, medicines promotion is governed by voluntary codes of practice administered by the pharmaceutical industry under its own system of self-regulation. Involvement of industry organizations in policing promotion has been proposed to deter illicit conduct, but few detailed studies on self-regulation have been carried out to date. …
A ground-breaking report on biodiversity and health, launched at the 14th World Congress on Public Health, in Kolkata, India, shows the significant contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services to better human health. The report, Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health, demonstrates that the relationship between biodiversity and human health …
With an almost two-fold increase in the death toll and number of people testing positive for H1N1 within a week, the spread of swine flu has hit the panic button in Punjab and Haryana. In Punjab, the number of suspected cases has risen to 113, of which 45 have tested …
As deaths due to complications from swine flu continue to get reported in Hyderabad, physicians here have increasingly started to believe that the H1N1 virus could have more potency than one would have earlier believed. Giving credence to this belief is the fact that nearly 40 to 45 per cent …
With swine flu spreading and claiming 191 lives already this year, the government today said it was in the process of procuring additional stock of Oseltamivir, the anti-swine flu drug. The government is in talks with Hetero Drugs, Stride Arco and Natco for additional procurement of 60,000 capsules of Oseltamivir …
MONROVIA – Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,900 people in West Africa since it began more than a …
In evidence revealing that tamiflu is an effective medicine, results published in the Lancet have indicated that oseltamivir (tamiflu) significantly reduces the risk of influenza complications requiring antibiotics (such as pneumonia) and hospitalisations in adults infected with influenza. The most thorough analysis of oseltamivir (marketed as tamiflu) data to date, …
In a view of various reports doubting the quality of drugs manufactured in India and sold in the domestic and export market, the Union Health Ministry has launched the largest ever sample survey of spurious, counterfeit and sub-standard medicines to analyse their quality. The move also aims to plug loopholes …
Leading US health groups including AVAC, Oxfam America, amfAR, Health Global Access Project (GAP), TAG (Treatment Action Group)and others have written to Barack Obama urging him to support India in providing “high-quality, low-cost generic medicines essential for health care around the world“. This comes in the wake of the two …
Scientists have developed 10 new antibodies that starve tumours of oxygen and can help in the battle against cancer. They work by inhibiting blood vessel formation close to the tumour, which is thereby cut off from oxygen and nutrient supply . The researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have tested …
