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 …
Failure Of Pvt Sector To Provide Cheaper Shots Forces Reversal Of Order Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Let down by the private sector, government has been forced to reverse its decision to close down public sector vaccine units. Less than a year after they were closed down, health ministry …
VELLORE: The oral polio vaccine (OPV) that is administered to children in the 0-5 age group during the annual pulse polio campaigns in the country is perfectly safe and does not cause immediate illness or death, according to T. Jacob John, Emeritus Professor of Virology of the Christian Medical College …
The cost of therapeutic drugs affecting the common man is all set to go down, with the government today prescribing monographs for 73 new drugs. These monographs have been included in the latest edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP), the official book on standards of identity, purity and strength for drugs …
Ciprofloxacin has become the antibiotic of choice for the treatment of typhoid fever with the emergence and worldwide spread of Salmonella enterica typhi strains resistant to chloramphenicol. However, the rampant use of ciprofloxacin gradually led to an increase in its minimum inhibitory concentration against S. enterica typhi. This threatened its …
This fourth edition of the WHO Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis presents up-to-date guidance on the design and implementation of setting-specific surveys and surveillance systems to measure the burden and trends of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The guidelines address recent advancements in drug susceptibility testing, including testing for second-line …
Vitamin C tablets scarce, costlier ALREADY in short supply, vitamin C has become costlier. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority increased the price of seven essential drugs on November 25. The authority controls the price of 74 drugs classified essential. The pharmaceutical industry had approached the pricing authority to revise the …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday said none of the Ayurvedic medicines exported by leading Indian manufacturers has toxic heavy metals beyond permissible limits. Denying a report in a U.S. journal that detectable levels of lead, mercury or arsenic were found in some Ayurvedic products, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said …
According to several worrisome studies presented here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, resistance against artemisinin-based combination therapies, the gold standard in fighting malaria, seems to be developing in western Cambodia, along the Thai border.
Pb Jayakumar & Joe C Mathew / Mumbai/new Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:27 IST Roche Scientific Company (India) Ltd, the local arm of Swiss drug maker F Hoffman-La Roche, will launch a new-generation rheumatoid arthritis drug, Actemra, in India, even as it awaits approvals from US and European drug regulators. …
A team of epidemiologists has reported that just one-fifth of the standard meningitis vaccine dose triggers an immune response almost as good as that of the full dose, offering a way to potentially stretch limited supplies.
Joe C Mathew & P B Jayakumar / New Delhi/mumbai December 03, 2008, 0:48 IST First time, an Indian court revisits a patent office order. In a ruling that can have far-reaching implications on the way medicine patents are granted in the country, the Madras High Court today called for …
Within the Codex Alimentarius, transparency is and has been an important consideration with regard to how and why actions and decisions are made in providing stakeholders with sufficient information and clarity on matters of interest and decision-making. This review focuses on the development of analytical methods performance criteria for measuring …
Central government has plans to introduce National Medicinal Herbs Mission soon on model of National Horticulture Mission with the aim of boosting medicinal herbs cultivation, developing medicinal nurseries, processing and marketing activities. A sum of Rs 630 crore will be allocated in the 11th Five Year Plan for the same …
Ornithologists are apprehensive that sparrows might be wiped out for the sake of seeking pleasure The latest to join the list of the depleting category of birds is the local Indian sparrow. The sparrows survive best if left alone in their habitat, say environmentalists. Recently, ornithologists raised an alarm when …
Paracetamol increases the risk of asthma in children paracetamol, sold under brand names such as Metacin, Crocin and Calpol in India, is considered a safe bet against fever and body ache. But it may pose problems for children, a new study revealed. It found that if a child was given …
