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 …
Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat has questioned the role of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine post-licensure observational study and pointed out that some officials of the institute acted as
Lucknow: Even though use of painkiller diclofenac on animals has been banned in India, it continues to take a toll on the vulture population . Heavy content of diclofenac, which is poisonous for vultures, has been detected on samples of dead animals during tests carried out by the Indian Veterinary …
60% Of Dosages Being Prescribed Violate Standard Guidelines: Study New Delhi: Almost 60% of dosages being prescribed to patients suffering from tuberculosis
A recent survey in the Sassoon Hospital here showed that 20 out of 3,172 patients were carrying the superbug, NDM-1 gene. Sixty-six per cent of the patients also showed multidrug resistance. While it is not a cause for immediate worry, experts say, the high level of resistance to drugs could …
Tuberculosis (TB) control is considered primarily a public health concern, and private sector TB treatment has attracted less attention. Thus, the size and characteristics of private sector TB drug sales remain largely unknown.We used IMS Health data to analyze private TB drug consumption in 10 high burden countries (HBCs), after …
When Alexander Fleming discovered pencillin in 1928 he could hardly have imagined that one day the world would be battling drug resistant superbugs with genes like New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), which can render the most intensive antibiotic treatments ineffective. About 4.4 lakh new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emerge annually, causing …
New superbug NDM-1 and the misuse of antibiotics in IndiaIs the new superbug NDM-1 really here in Delhi? Can it be there in the water that I drink? In the hospitals? Is it really resistant to all antibiotics? But how can modern medicine function without antibiotics? Are they just sounding …
Contamination of their carrion food supply with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac has caused rapid population declines across the Indian subcontinent of three species of Gyps vultures endemic to South Asia. The governments of India, Pakistan and Nepal took action in 2006 to prevent the veterinary use of diclofenac on …
How does this device work? There is a phenomenon in nature called shockwave. For example, in a volcanic explosion most of the energy is carried away by a shock wave. Whenever such a wave travels through any medium, it increases the pressure and temperature within microseconds. A big Pokhran blast, …
Calls in Canada for trials of a contentious treatment for multiple sclerosis illustrate how social media can affect research priorities, say Roger Chafe and his colleagues. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/472410a.html
The oral single drug formulation of Artemisinin, having potential to become resistant to malaria, has been withdrawn from India. However, some manufacturers continue to produce and export it as a mono therapy. On Tuesday, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) asked the state drug controllers to cancel the licence …
CCEA move follows spate of takeovers of Indian cos by multinationals in recent past The government has ordered constitution of an interministerial group to review India
Hyderabad-based Biological E makes paediatric & adult vaccines GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, a division of global drug giant Glaxo, is in talks with the Hyderabad-based Biological E Ltd (BE) to purchase its vaccines division, people familiar with the discussions said. This division produces and markets a range of paediatric and adult vaccines …
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited research proposals from scientists across the country to study the superbug or the drug resistant bacteria. The announcement comes soon after the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced a national anti-microbial policy to help address the issue of superbug, which …
Thalidomide was a widely used drug in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women. It became apparent in the 1960s that thalidomide treatment resulted in severe birth defects in thousands of children. Though the use of thalidomide was banned in most countries at …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said it will assist India in its study to check the presence of multi-drug resistant superbug and whether it is a health hazard.
