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 …
A panel of ministers will meet on Wednesday to discuss the formula to cap the retail prices of 348 essential drugs and their combinations that seek to make medicines affordable without disturbing the growth of the industry. The group of ministers (GoM), headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, will look …
New Delhi: India is stepping up surveillance against importing drug-resistant malaria. The National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) has joined the global Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin (TRAC) study, being spearheaded by the University of Oxford, which will look at parasite clearance time, parasite reduction ratio and the time to achieve …
Heartened by the success rate of the new laboratories across Maharashtra in testing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis samples (MDR-TB), authorities of the state TB control programme are toying with the idea of setting up a similar detection centre for a more virulent strain — the extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB — …
New Delhi: India has developed a powerful new malaria drug — an alternative to the global drug of choice Artemisinin — that promises to be a major boost to India’s pharmaceutical research. The new drug’s raw materiel is synthetic (derived chemically in the lab) while Artemisinin is derived from a …
The medical fraternity has taken a strong objection to ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) dispensing strong antibiotics to few months old babies. Nine lakhs ASHAs are now authorised to dispense co-trimoxazole and gentamicin to millions of babies born in rural India. Doctors point out that while co-trimoxazole can cause jaundice …
Drug resistance seems to have emerged as an endemic problem in India and the Union Health Ministry has written to the Planning Commission asking for a national programme to tackle anti-microbial resistance and cover the whole gamut of pathogens. If the Planning Commission decides to include it in the 12th …
Maternal Death Reviews reveals many facilities show mothers the door soon after delivery According to a study conducted on pregnancy-related deaths, a large number of women die during transit to a health facility or returning home after a delivery. ‘Maternal Death Reviews — Implications for Quality of Care,' (MDR) a …
MUMBAI: Life-saving drugs manufactured in the country may continue to cost more than the imported ones from China. In a major blow to the healthcare industry early this week, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) dismissed the petition of Indian bulk manufacturers of life-saving drugs, urging concessional power tariff to …
With reports of Nimesulide causing liver toxicity red-flagged, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked the manufacturers to add “box warning” on its label, suggesting that its use to be restricted to 10 days and if longer clinical use is necessary then liver function test should be assessed …
New Delhi: The government on Monday passed a decision on Monday to roll out the five in one pentavalent vaccine in six new states. Children in Gujarat, Karnataka, Haryana,Goa, J&K; and Pondicherry will soon be protected by the pentavalent vaccine. The Union health ministry passed the at the meeting of …
In a case of illegal drug trial, a man from Indore “discovered” through local newspapers that he was an uninformed guinea-pig for a German drug firm. The newspapers reported the matter after it was raised in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Dhananjay Shrivastava did not know trials of Olodaterol — a …
The Union Health Ministry’s plan to upgrade the Baccillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Laboratory in Guindy in Tamil Nadu has hit a wall with the State Government yet to give its nod for acquiring land for the unit. The vaccine unit among two others — Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli …
Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the tens of thousands of human deaths that result each year from the drugs’ overuse. The Food and Drug …
Scientists claim to have developed a “universal” cancer vaccine that can train patients’ own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells. A team from Tel Aviv University and drug company Vaxil Biotheraputics say the therapy targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of all cancers, and could soon …
Scientists claim to have developed a universal cancer vaccine that can train patients' own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells. A team from Tel Aviv University and drug company Vaxil Biotheraputics say the therapy targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of all cancers, and could soon …
Years after a malaria strain increasingly resistant to the most-effective drugs was confirmed from Cambodia in 2006, the artemisinin-resistant malaria has now been found to have spread along the Thailand-Burma border. According to 10-year-long study published in the Lancet medical journal, the containment strategy will have to be reconsidered if …
Indian drugmakers such as Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotech and Serum Institute have resumed production of the swine flu vaccine as the once-pandemic disease threatens to strike again. The vaccine makers are anticipating an increase in demand because nearly 281 patients have tested positive to the dreaded H1N1 virus and 21 …
The spectre of drug-resistant malaria is back on the horizon. In a report published in The Lancet, researchers from the faculty of tropical medicine, Mahidol University Bangkok, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford and the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network have reported cases of malaria that are resistant to artemisinin …
