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 …
Unmonitored intake of tuberculosis medicines could lead to acute liver failure. In last year, three cases of acute liver failure due to toxicity caused by tuberculosis medicines were received at the department of surgical gastroenterology and liver transplant in the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. According to Dr Abhideep Chaudhary, …
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment strategies shape the evolution of resistance. In particular, it is not clear whether treating individual patients aggressively with high drug dosages …
In the race to develop an Ebola vaccine, a small cancer therapy company, NewLink Genetics, has been in the shadows of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a big pharma company with lots of experience and far deeper resources. But at a high-level meeting held by the World Health Organization on 23 October, it …
The fact that not everyone with Ebola virus disease (EVD) has died during the ongoing outbreak in West Africa, with an estimated case fatality rate of 70.8% by September 2014, suggests that some kind of immunity to this virus is possible. If left unchecked, this scenario will undoubtedly shift to …
Shortened antituberculosis treatment regimens are expected to improve patient adherence to treatment, thus favoring better case management and disease control and minimizing the risk of drug resistance.1-3 The first indication that fluoroquinolones had the potential to shorten tuberculosis treatment was from an observational study in India4 in which ethambutol was …
This is the nineteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported …
Ranchi: Jharkhand has seen a sharp rise in the number of deaths due to tuberculosis and AIDS between 2010 and 2013, shows National Aids Control Organization (Naco) data. The state has seen an increase in TB-AIDS deaths since 2000 and in the next one decade, the killer diseases killed about …
For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have given their patients honeysuckle, often in the form of tea, to help alleviate certain ailments. Now, researchers think that this age-old practice may have been on to something. A molecule within the plant has been found to directly target influenza, making it a …
Bedaquiline, the first anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug manufactured in almost 50 years, not only worked on severely ill patients in the city but it did so without affecting their hearts. An article to this effect was published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease last week, showing “drastic“ improvement …
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the use of plastic containers for primary packaging of drugs. The ministry has issued a draft notification on September 29 to invite objections and suggestions from the pharmaceutical industry within 45 days after which a final notification will be issued, banning …
THE first Ebola drug trial in Africa has started with three healthcare workers in Mali receiving an experimental vaccine. It comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the weekend warned that the virus was now ‘entrenched’ in the capital cities of the three worst-hit countries, and accelerating in almost …
Potent pharmaceuticals flushed into the environment via human and animal sewage could be a hidden cause of the global wildlife crisis, according to new research. The scientists warn that worldwide use of the drugs, which are designed to be biologically active at low concentrations, is rising rapidly but that too …
Ketoprofen, a substitute for diclofenac which is also lethal for vultures, was found in 40% of the sampled drug stores A cattle drug that has played a deadly role in critically endangering the wild vulture population remains on the market four years after its production was banned by the government. …
India has strongly objected to the findings of new research that raises questions about the quality of drugs manufactured in the country and exported abroad.
New research that sheds light on the methods and machinery used by HIV to infect cells provides insight into the tricky virus that potentially could guide the development of a vaccine against the cause of AIDS, according to U.S. government and other scientists. Separate studies published on Wednesday describe in …
World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key India was home to about a third of the world's poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World …
After vanishing from Delhi, the endangered vultures are facing the threat of extinction in the Indian subcontinent also. The UNEP, in its report released on Wednesday on biodiversity, claimed that a veterinary drug, which had been responsible for deaths of vultures, continue to be available in the market despite a …
A vaccine for parasitic intestinal worms has been shown to be safe in Brazilian clinical trials, according to its US developer. The trials were carried out in the city of Belo Horizonte, and the rural settlement of Americaninhas in eastern Brazil where there is a high risk of hookworm infection. …
Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Seven of eight studies that analyzed previous research and whose researchers had financial ties to the drug industry were considered favorable to the flu treatments, including Roche …
To aid in prioritizing the development of tuberculosis (TB) vaccines most likely to reach the 2050 TB elimination goal, we estimated the impact and cost-effectiveness of a range of vaccine profiles in low- and middle-income countries. Using mathematical modeling, we show that vaccines targeted at adolescents/adults could have a much …
