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 …
Gas victims were subjected to some drug trials without their knowledge at a super-speciality hospital run by a trust, headed by former CJI Justice A M Ahmadi, a survivors
Following incidents of stomach pain, vomiting and fatigue among students after consuming tablets to prevent malaria, residents in the rural areas around KGF are apprehensive about consuming the pills. Students of Government Higher Primary School in Kammasandra were administered the tablets last Tuesday after cases of malaria were reported. One …
Things are so bad at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country's premier government-run hospital and medical college that it is nearly impossible to think good or do good. Vishnu Surekha, a businessman with a good heart, wanted a little space for setting up a charitable pharmacy inside …
Gender inequalities in biomedical research are undermining patient care. In the first of three related pieces, Alison M. Kim, Candace M. Tingen and Teresa K. Woodruff call on journals, funding agencies and researchers to give women parity with men, in studies and in the clinic.
Tuberculosis may no longer be perceived as the mass killer disease, yet even today a patient dies of it in India every minute. Thus a new breakthrough in TB control is heartening news. That the innovative research is the brainchild of the nation
More than 70 students of Higher Primary School in Kammasandra took ill after they swallowed anti-malaria tablets on Tuesday. The Health Department staff had been distributing anti-malaria tablets in the village as the disease surfaced in the area recently. The tablets were distributed to students of fifth standard to seventh …
Universal access to first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection is becoming more of a reality in most low and middle income countries in Asia. However, second-line therapies are relatively scarce. We developed a mathematical model of an HIV epidemic in a Southeast Asian setting and used it to forecast …
Obese diabetics will soon have a better option to reduce their weight and consequently their blood sugar levels, with a new drug, Victoza (liraglutide), all set to be launched in India this month. Already launched in Europe and the US, the drug will hit the stores in India
Joseph murray, a Nobel laureate and the first person to perform a successful human kidney transplant, said in 1954, “Scientists agree whenever a cure for aids is found, it will be through animal research.” Murray may or may not be right. More than 85 hiv vaccines have shown promise in …
At a lab working on kala-azar in Bihar, a rabbit was tied spreadeagled in a glass chamber full of sand flies. Its eyes almost human, they expressed the shame of being publicly humiliated. The rabbit was part of an experiment at the institute and one of the 150 million animals …
Although progress has been made to reduce global incidence of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis during the past decade threatens to undermine these advances. However, countries are responding far too slowly. Of the estimated 440 000 cases of MDR tuberculosis that occurred in …
The use in animals of an anti-inflammatory drug meant for humans threatens with extinction three species of Gyps vultures in India. FOR the three endangered species of Gyps vultures in India, 2009 was a year of mild optimism. Hornbill, the magazine of The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), reported that …
Exposure to environmental chemicals and drugs may have a negative effect on human health. An essential step towards understanding the effect of chemicals on human health is to identify all possible molecular targets of a given chemical. Recently, various network-oriented chemical pharmacology approaches have been published. However, these methods limit …
