Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet today. The so-called Avahan project was launched in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, along with the northeastern …
Onco Therapies Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Strides Arcolab Ltd, has announced that it has received US FDA approval for Cladribine injection. Cladribine is part of the oncology (cancer) drug portfolio licensed to Pfizer in January 2010 for the US market. The drug comes in 1 mg/ ml packaged in …
Strides Arcolab Ltd. Friday said its unit has received U.S. regulatory approval for a generic version of cancer treating paclitaxel injections, which the Indian company will launch immediately through partner Pfizer Inc. Generic paclitaxel injections have estimated annual U.S. sales of $46 million, the company said in a statement. Strides …
AHMEDABAD: The city is the cardiac emergency capital of the state with over 20,500 cases reported from August 2007 to August 2011 by GVK EMRI 108 officials. This means that the city has an average of 14 heart-related emergencies everyday. According to a recent survey by Emergency Research Management Institute …
AHMEDABAD: The city is the cardiac emergency capital of the state with over 20,500 cases reported from August 2007 to August 2011 by GVK EMRI 108 officials. This means that the city has an average of 14 heart-related emergencies everyday. According to a recent survey by Emergency Research Management Institute …
Government officials failed to distribute to thousands of people pills that could have minimized radiation risks from the March nuclear accident, government documents show. The disclosure is the latest evidence of government neglect of emergency procedures in the chaotic days after the disaster, in which an earthquake and tsunami damaged …
An experimental malaria vaccine tested on children in Burkina Faso has shown "a high level of efficacy" in protecting against the disease, a study published in the United States said Wednesday. The study was initially planned to study the safety and immune response of the vaccine, known by the name …
At least 16 people in two states have gotten severe eye infections, and some have been blinded, from injections of the drug Avastin, according to health authorities and to lawyers representing the patients. The cancer drug Avastin has been used by some doctors to treat macular degeneration, an off-label application. …
Yet another panel of scientists has found no evidence that a popular vaccine causes autism. But despite the scientists’ best efforts, their report is unlikely to have any impact on the frustrating debate about the safety of these crucial medicines. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is …
In what might be the greatest medical discovery since penicillin, scientists have developed a broad-spectrum drug which they claim can cure everything — from the common cold to HIV to almost any other virus one can think of. A team of researchers at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in …
The first antibody which can fight all types of the influenza A virus has been discovered, researchers claim. Experiments on flu-infected mice, published in Science Express, showed the antibody could be used as an "emergency treatment". It is hoped the development will lead to a "universal vaccine" -- currently a …
On Tuesday, a committee that advises the Food and Drug Administration is to consider whether the first of those drugs can overcome safety concerns and reach the market. The outcome of the F.D.A. review is far from certain. The drug, dapagliflozin, might raise the risk of breast and bladder cancer, …
Scientists said Thursday that a new AIDS vaccine, the first ever declared to protect a significant minority of humans against the disease, would be studied to answer two fundamental questions: why it worked in some people but not in others, and why those infected despite vaccination got no benefit at …
More than six million doses of swine flu vaccine will be available by the first week in October, more that twice as many as had been recently expected, federal health officials said. As before, however, most will be the FluMist nasal spray, which is recommended only for people ages 2 …
Defying the expectations of experts, clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with only one dose instead of two, so the vaccine supplies now being made will go twice as far as had been predicted. That means it should be possible to vaccinate
People panicked by swine flu continue to throng different hospitals of the capital seeking remedy. About 1,242 patients were given treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) till Monday morning. Though the government has taken initiatives to make the anti-viral drug 'Oseltamivir' easily available for the common people, they are …
A total of 10.5 lakh Oseltamivir capsules are being supplied across the country for the treatment of the swine flow affected patients. One and a half lakh swine infected patients can be treated with this volume of supply, said SM Alamgir Hossain, Virologist of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and …
