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Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Seven of eight studies that analyzed previous research and whose researchers had financial ties to the drug industry were considered favorable to the flu treatments, including Roche …
A trial of an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus is to begin in Oxford. The first of 60 healthy volunteers will be injected with the vaccine. It contains only a small portion of genetic material from the virus, so it cannot cause the disease. Normally it would take years …
SCIENTISTS searching for new drugs to fight malaria have identified a number of compounds — some of which are currently in clinical trials to treat cancer – that could add to the anti-malarial arsenal. Duke University assistant professor Emily Derbyshire and colleagues identified more than 30 enzyme-blocking molecules, called protein …
Monkeys sickened by Marburg virus, an Ebola relative that kills in the same way and is equally as fatal, survived the disease after being treated with an experimental drug developed by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TKMR) The results, published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, are the first to show …
Efforts to develop the first new malaria treatment in 20 years advanced as a pill from Novartis AG (NOVN) cleared parasites faster than the best medicines, potentially providing a solution to the spread of drug resistance. In a study among 21 patients in Thailand, Novartis’s KAE609 wiped out half the …
Making malaria vaccine available for routine use will be a major milestone, researchers say Experts say the world's first malaria vaccine could be approved for use in 2015. Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1,000 children who received the vaccine, an average of 800 cases of illness …
Antibiotic use has surged by 36% worldwide in a decade, much of it unwarranted, according to a new study. The rise, particularly in countries with a burgeoning middle class, heightens concerns that overuse of antibiotics is leaving more of the world's population vulnerable to drug-resistant bacteria, according to the authors …
Antibiotic resistance has been selected as the focus for a £10m prize set up to tackle a major challenge of our time. Six themes were initially identified by organisers of the Longitude Prize; these were then put to a public vote. The winning theme was announced on the BBC's One …
Antibiotics now rank among the most counterfeited medicines in the world, feeding a global epidemic of drug-resistant superbugs. A new surveillance and reporting program in 80 countries led by the World Health Organization shows that counterfeit antibiotics are a growing problem in all regions of the world, rivaling fake versions …
A cheap and easy to deliver oral vaccine against cholera is 86 per cent effective in preventing the infection which causes severe diarrhea and can be fatal, researchers said today. Some 1.4 billion people around the globe were at risk for cholera in 2012, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). …
The Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, in this declaration released today, asserts that consumer protection and public health must trump the pursuit of profit, and that effective antibiotics are global public goods. The Coalition also calls for international leadership and action to, in part: • Prohibit the promotion and advertising of antibiotics; …
PRESS RELEASE Centre for Science and Environment, as part of the global civil society coalition issues grave warning to World Health Assembly, urges leadership and action GENEVA—The Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, comprising civil society organisations and stakeholders from multiple sectors on six continents, has called on World Health Organization (WHO) Member …
Chinese researchers announced Saturday they had successfully developed the vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus, after the flu strain had left more than 130 people infected, with 45 fatalities reported. Shu Yuelong, director of the Chinese National Influenza Center, said this is the first influenza vaccine ever developed by …
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will ‘test’ the new National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy-2012 for fixing prices of essential medicines in the country and also the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013 (DPCO 2013), notified by the government in May. Observing that the Centre is being guided by market-driven forces, …
Pharma companies oppose vociferously 45 days' time period given to them for replacing existing stocks Taking their cue from Cipla and Alembic, many in the pharmaceutical industry have challenged the new drug price fixation orders that were to be implemented from July 29. The move is expected to delay the …
A report submitted to the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) by the Drugs and Food Control Organisation (DFCO), a state government agency, has revealed that 438 medicines, including inject-able drugs have been found ‘not of standard quality’ (NSQ) after analysis over the past seven years. These samples were lifted randomly …
For the benefit of thousands of children, now the pentavalent vaccine - a five-in-one vaccine, which protects children from five diseases, will be available free in all 21 districts of the state of Haryana. Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will launch the vaccination on Friday. After the successful launch …
The world’s first vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis (JE), created using an Indian strain of the virus, is now ready. National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune had provided Bharat Biotech with a strain of the JE virus collected from Kolar in Karnataka — a hotbed for JE infections, for the vaccine. …
Prices of drugs that are defined as essential under the existing policy, but will not remain so under the new pharma pricing policy, would be frozen for a year, after which pharmaceutical firms would be allowed to increase prices at the rate of not more than 10% every year. For …
A study published in the Malaria World Journal has found that worldwide 2.6 per cent of all WHO-approved artemisinin-based anti-malaria drugs are substandard, as they have less than the prescribed quantity of active ingredient. For India, the figure stands at 4 per cent while in China it is 12.3 per …
