Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Forms four expert panels to draft permission guidelines Following more than 2,200 deaths in clinical trials in the past five years, the government has finally set up four expert committees to streamline approvals and evolve standard operating procedures for marketing of drugs in India, which are discovered abroad. The move …
The quality of reporting of animal studies lags behind that of human randomized controlled trials but a series of additions to the ARRIVE guidelines will help ensure that the standards are comparable. Original Source
The rules notified by the government for compensating clinical trial victims have failed to address the concerns raised by patient groups and health activists. The norms, which have come into place after repeated slamming of the government by the Supreme Court, do not specify any quantum of compensation that pharmaceutical …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Union Health Ministry after receiving information that three government hospitals committed illegal drug trials on nearly 3,500 children in the past five years. According to NHRC, a notice was sent to the Secretary of Union Ministry of …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Union Health Ministry after receiving information that three government hospitals committed illegal drug trials on nearly 3,500 children in the past five years. According to NHRC, a notice was sent to the Secretary of Union Ministry of …
Companies failing to pay up within the stipulated time may face suspension of trials and even a permanent ban Pharma companies sponsoring clinical trials in India would now need to compensate volunteers in cases of trial-related deaths or injuries. Firms and clinical research organisations failing to pay up, could face …
Realising the urgency for the industry to take a pro-active stance to create patient awareness and education about clinical research, The Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) is planning to set up a clinical trials committee. This move is to assist the government and the industry to share information arising …
New Delhi: Here’s a word of caution for those who pop vitamin pills with or without doctor’s advice. The pills, often prescribed as a dietary supplement, have been found to play no role in preventing heart risk in an international study published in the latest issue of the British Medical …
Researchers have located a new malaria-causing parasite — Plasmodium Knowlesi — for the first time in humans in India. A team of researchers, consisting of Manoj Kumar Das of the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Shiv S. Singh of G.B. Pant Hospital, Port Blair, Rupesh K. Tyagi and Yagya …
Scientists Pinpoint Gene That Can Inhibit Tumour Growth New Delhi: There is great excitement at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Biotechnology. Scientists here claim to have found that the SCO2 gene has potential tumour-suppressing qualities and that it can be a treatment for different kinds of cancer. Their research paper …
The government's move to issue compulsory licences (CLs) for three more patented cancer drugs is a jolt to multinational pharmaceutical companies. The plan is to issue CLs for Trastuzumab (or Herceptin, used for treating breast cancer), Ixabepilone (used for chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment) and Dasatinib (or Sprycel, for leukaemia). …
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have discovered a new molecule that, they say, could potentially lead to an anti-cancer drug, which may help reduce the dosage of current treatment methods like chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The molecule, aimed at killing cancer cells by blocking their DNA repair mechanism, …
Prof. A. Ajayaghosh, a scientist with the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, has won the Infosys Prize 2012 in physical sciences for his pioneering research in the field of supramolecular architecture. This research can play a key role in early cancer diagnosis and in the early detection of …
London: A woman from Liverpool, who was suffering from an incurable liver cancer, was saved by using a tissue from a cow’s heart to rebuild her liver. Michelle Morgan-Grainger became one of the first to benefit from surgery that used the process known as xenotransplantation — animal organ donation, the …
The Planning Commission has set a target for the pharmaceutical industry to reach $100 billion by 2020 and account for five per cent share of the global drug industry in the next five years. According to the final draft of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17) by the panel, the objective …
For those living in darkness for decades, seeing even a faint ray of light is a cause for celebration. Today, Bionic Eye, an artificial retinal implant, offers this hope to many visually challenged patients. What adds to the joy is that Dr Rajat Agrawal, retina specialist and co-founder of Argus …
A vaccine to combat malaria could become a reality by 2014. While currently there are no licensed vaccines against malaria or any other human parasite, a research vaccine against P. falciparum, known as RTS,S/AS01, is at an advanced stage. According to the WHO experts, the vaccine is currently being evaluated …
