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 …
Joseph Amon and colleagues discuss the challenges of conducting human rights research in settings where local research ethics committees may favor the interests of the state over the interests of research participants. Original Source
Players with integration between clinical work and data are going to dominate the post-BPO scene Regulators round the world have become increasingly concerned about pharmacovigilance, the post-marketing surveillance of a drug for its entire life. Quintiles is offering this service to customers across the globe. About 500 of Quintiles’s staff …
In the past two years, clinical trials in India have come increasingly under public scrutiny. As a result, clinical research organisations (CROs), companies that conduct clinical trials for drug makers, are somewhat under pressure. However, leading CROs in the country, such as Quintiles, are riding on the hope that they …
Stockholm: A British researcher and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that ordinary cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells, which then can turn into any kind of tissue — a discovery that may led to new treatments. …
New Delhi: Testing blood sugar levels will now take just about a minute, cost less than Rs 2 and require 1,000 times lesser blood than what glucose meters currently use. In what will be a real boon for a majority of India’s 61 million diabetics, many of whom have to …
STOCKHOLM: Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of growing replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. The two scientists were lauded for determining that adult cells can be …
Study Links Disease To Lifestyle, Diet, Hygiene, Health Habits. A country’s human development index (HDI) is a potential indicator of its cancer charts. In a country with a very high HDI, for instance, people are more likely to suffer from breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. The experience in countries such …
Cuban scientists said they have concluded the second round of the clinical trial of a potential vaccine against prostate cancer. Urologist Ranfis Rodriguez Monday said 56 patients, who were vaccinated in two hospitals, showed a remarkable improvement in their condition, reported Xinhua. A decrease in specific prostate tumour antigens was …
Aiming to secure the safety of people involved in drug trials in the country, the Government is in the process of framing guidelines for awarding compensation in cases of death during these trials. The hallmark of the new guidelines would be the fixing of minimum mandatory compensation to be paid …
Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts.
One of the biggest purges of the scientific literature in history is finally getting under way. After more than a decade of suspicion about the work of anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii, formerly of Toho University in Tokyo, investigations by journals and universities have concluded that he fabricated data on an epic …
Open source drug discovery offers potential for developing new and inexpensive drugs to combat diseases that disproportionally affect the poor. The concept borrows two principle aspects from open source computing (i.e., collaboration and open access) and applies them to pharmaceutical innovation. By opening a project to external contributors, its research …
New Delhi: The world’s first effective vaccine against dengue could be available by 2015. Scientists on Tuesday announced a major dengue vaccine breakthrough, with a candidate vaccine showing a 60%-90% protection rate against three virus strains (DENV 1, 3 and 4) that causes the mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine CYD-TDV was …
Authorities in Hunan province on Saturday denied that children in a rural school were guinea pigs in a US research project on the effects of genetically modified rice. A research paper involving 68 Chinese primary-school children in the province was published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on Aug …
New study reveals alarming levels in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to four powerful antibiotics Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR- TB) is increasing due to expanded use of second-line drugs in people suffering from multidrug-resistant (MDR) diseases, reveals a new study. This large, prospective study …
Scientists claim to have discovered a drug that could cure all strains of malaria with a single oral dose and also block transmission of the deadly parasite from person to person. The compound from the aminopyridine class (code named MMV390048) shows potent activity against multiple points in the malaria parasite’s …
There’s widespread scare over clinical trials and their impact on ill-informed patients, who are often victims of circumstances than willing collaborators in research. This was foreseen long back, which is why medical fraternity brought out the Helsinki Declaration: “Concern for interests of subjects must prevail over interests of science and …
Alarmed by the rise in illegal drug trials in the country and the lack of effective laws for their monitoring, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mulling guidelines for clinical trials. The NHRC has written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and other premier medial institutes in …
