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 …
Even the most elite waste treatment systems currently available do not remove antibiotics from manure, according to a study which suggests that traces of the medicines leach into the environment, potentially contributing to the global rise of drug-resistant bacteria. Researchers from University at Buffalo in the US studied two of …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An interim report of the first-ever dengue seroprevalence collaborative study being carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the state government is in the offing by June. As part of preparing the report and for assessing the progress of the study, a team from WHO will pay …
Kenyan researchers said on Saturday that they plan to use a combination of new drugs as well as a vaccine in order to end malaria menace in the country. Lucas Otieno, Deputy Director of Clinical Operations at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), told Xinhua in Nairobi that the illness …
Drug manufacturer recently phased out its Compassionate Use Programme Hinduja Hospital is trying to import Bedaquiline, an anti-tuberculosis drug, from South Africa for two of its patients suffering from multi-drug resistant TB. Janssen, the Belgian pharmaceutical company that manufactures the drug, recently phased out its Compassionate Use Programme, under which …
Last year, two Union ministers and 10 MPs had forwarded objections from a drug traders’ lobby to HealthMin. A proposal of the Union health ministry that envisaged digitisation of the pharmaceutical supply chain to combat substandard drugs, curb on overuse of antibiotics and regulation of online sale of medicine is …
There is no definite proposal for a new drug policy before the government at present though some stakeholders have discussed the basic contents that should go into a draft pharma policy, Parliament was informed today. This was in reply to a question whether the government is proposing to formulate a …
Antibiotic prescriptions have shot up by 65 percent overall and by 39 percent per person in 15 years, new research reveals. In the period from 2000 to 2015, 24.5 billion prescriptions for the infection-fighting drugs were written a day. This rise comes even as scientists and doctors around the world …
Antibiotic use more than doubled in India between 2000 and 2015, fuelling antibiotic resistance that is making common infections such as E.coli, strep throat, pneumonia and tuberculosis more difficult to treat, according to this new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Antibiotic resistance, driven by …
Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health center in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives. Hours from the nearest town in Cunene province, the clinic has no first-line tuberculosis drugs, no antiretrovirals for HIV, no general …
Venomous snakebite is a global serious health issue and in India high rate of mortality is caused by Naja naja (Indian cobra). To evaluate anti-cobra venom activity and identify lead molecules in Aegle marmelos, in vitro and in silico screening was carried out. Leaves, stem and root bark of A. …
MUMBAI: When it is tuberculosis, one prescription doesn't fit all patients. Government-run programmes offer the same medicines to all patients with drug-resistant TB, but an intervention by Hinduja Hospital, which was the first to detect totally drug resistant cases in the city, shows that this does not always work. The …
MUMBAI: Rafiq, a shoe salesman from Govandi, is one of 4,000-odd TB patients in Mumbai with the worrisome drugresistant form of the disease. But what makes the 26-year-old special is that he is among a handful of patients to be given not one, but two of the world’s newest anti-TB …
Clinical establishments as defined in the Clinical Establishment Act, 2010, include a wide range of medical establishments, hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, diagnostic services, including those operated by a single doctor. FOR THE first time, doctors, hospital authorities, chemists and druggists could face a jail term for not notifying tuberculosis (TB) cases. …
The Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Iran on cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine. The MoU was signed on February 17 during Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to India The MoU will encourage cooperation between the two …
BENGALURU: Even as Tuberculosis (TB) activists are protesting for access to life-saving drugs Bedaquiline and Delaminid, in the national capital, in the backdrop of the End-TB Summit in Delhi to be held on Tuesday, 120 courses of Bedaquiline reached Bengaluru recently.India has only 1,000 doses of Bedaquiline, obtained as donations …
Survivors of drug-resistant tuberculosis, health organisations and the TB community have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow issuance of compulsory licence for two of the essential drugs for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment so that Indian drug-makers can sell them at affordable prices. Bedaquiline and Delamanid are recommended by …
A group of doctors have written a letter to PM Modi demanding that the Centre exercise its right of ‘Compulsory Licensing’ (CL) for Bedaquiline and Delaminid, which treat drug-resistant forms of the deadly bacteria. It means that Pharma companies — US-based Janssen and Japan-based Otsuka, will have to transfer manufacturing …
Invites proposals from the pharma industry to produce affordable medicines The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, invited pharmaceutical companies around the world to submit proposals to manufacture affordable versions of newer medicines for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. A WHO spokesman said the aim was to replicate the success …
In their search for new drugs against tuberculosis which is increasingly becoming resistant to presently available drugs, researchers are exploring all options. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore have found that an existing anti-asthma drug is effective against tuberculosis and can help address the problem of drug …
