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 landmark UK study using a new cancer drug that targets tumours directly has raised hopes in the medical fraternity. The high alpha radiation drugs help patients suffering from prostate cancer live longer, with lesser pain and side-effects. So effective was the treatment in Dr Chris Parker’s study that it …
Participants at the National Consultation on Regulation of Drug Trials, organized by Sama, Locost, CSER, AIPSN and Daf-K, in New Delhi on 26-27 September, 2011, expressed their deep concern about the unregulated proliferation of ill-regulated clinical trials in India following the liberalisation of norms for conduct of such trials in …
A scientist from city-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Dattatraya H Dethe, has been selected for the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) Young Scientist award 2011 for his research work in the area of pharmaceutical sciences. The award, consisting of a memento, a citation and a cash prize, will …
Chinese and Indian drugmakers have taken over much of the global trade in medicines and now manufacture more than 80 per cent of the active ingredients in drugs sold worldwide. But they had never been able to copy the complex and expensive biotech medicines increasingly used to treat cancer, diabetes …
Compound Found In Liver Can Help Fight Dengue, Yellow Fever, Hepatitis London: In what may revolutionize human medicine, scientists claim to have found evidence that a compound in the liver of sharks can be used as a drug to protect people from a number of diseases. A team, led by …
A pilot survey has already been conducted in Amritsar, Imphal and Mumbai, will soon reach to other places. For the first time, the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) plans to conduct a nationwide survey to assess the extent of drug abuse in various parts of the country. A pilot survey …
New Delhi: The scientific community involved in medical research is in jitters as the Animal Welfare Board of India has come up with a draft Animal Welfare Act, 2011, that has listed punishment for not taking proper care of animals used for experiments. These animals may include anything — mouse, …
WHILE waste from drug factories continues to be a major concern for the environment, not much attention is paid to pollution that results from household consumption of drugs. Very few models exist to trace the trajectory of drugs and determine their fate. Now scientists from Autonomous University of Barcelona in …
Pakistan on Tuesday formally sought India's assistance in procuring dengue medicines from across the border at the earliest to help deal with the growing incidence of the fever in Punjab, where seven people have died of the virus in the past month. Essentially, the request has been made from the …
The Madras High Court has quashed a notification issued by the Centre in February this year in so far as it related to banning of manufacture, sale and distribution of Phenylpropanolamine (PPA). The drug is an ingredient in various formulations used in the treatment of common cold, body pain and …
London: People who take non-aspirin anti inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen for over a decade may triple their risk of developing kidney cancer, a new study has found. The study of over 125,000 participants, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, found that people who regularly took over-thecounter anti-inflammatories were …
Madras High Court says the matter was not discussed with concerned parties Paediatric drugs nimesulide and phenylpropanolamine (PPA) will soon be available with chemists after a court order revoked a ban on manufacture and sale of these controversial formulations. Early this year, the health ministry had banned sale of anti-inflammatory …
The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug …
The poor children have a right to get vaccines that are expensive The condition of basic health infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir is reflected by the reckless pattern of inoculation for children which does not include vaccines for diseases like chicken pox and hepatitis-A in the government run hospitals where …
AHMEDABAD: Since Monday, foot soldiers of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) - the link workers of the health department - have been on strike. This development is being viewed as a disaster of sorts. The city tops the disease chart in the state with the highest number of malaria and typhoid …
More than a million HIV-infected persons in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) remain without access to effective treatment. High cost of drugs and limited capacity of the respective health systems of the member-countries are primarily responsible for this situation which is only compounded by delays in diagnosing the disease and …
One-third of tuberculosis patients fail to get cured because of the abuse or improper use of TB drugs. To combat this, the Intern-ational Pharmaceutical Federation has called on pharmacists and scientists to create awareness among patients about how to take their medication. If the doses are not taken as stipulated, …
People living in developing countries including India have the highest burden of bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant infections driven by excessive and inappropriate antibiotic consumption. Also, antibiotic resistance or a bacteria's ability to survive antibiotic treatment is highly prevalent in developing countries of South Asia and Africa, according to the Global …
In an effort to check the spread of tuberculosis and its multi-drug resistant variants, the World Health Organisation and the Inter-national Pharmaceutical Federation (FIB) signed a joint statement on the role of pharmacists in TB care and control. The joint statement proposes a series of measures to help detect TB, …
Pfizer Inc and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories have settled a patent infringement suit related to the Indian drug maker’s launch of a generic version of the blockbuster drug, Lipitor, in the US. Pfizer’s Lipitor is the world’s largest-selling drug, which generated about $7 billion in sales last year in the US …
