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 …
A patent application for a key aids drug in India recently provoked a written protest to the Delhi patent office on May 9, 2006, by the Indian Network for People Living with hiv/aids and the Delhi Network of Positive People. It was followed by a protest march the next day …
The National Vector Borne Disease C ontrol P rogramme is in the process of changing the country's drug policy. A meeting was held in March 2006 to discuss new directions but the final policy has not yet been determined. In October 2005, a workshop was held by nimr to discuss …
The World Bank has come up with a Global Strategy and Booster Program for the years 2005-2010 to control malaria. But Amir Attaran of the Institute of Population Health and Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, has argued in The Lancet that the bank does not have the expertise …
a nobel prize-winning chemist has found a way to mass-produce Tamiflu (oseltamivir), which is considered the main drug against avian flu virus infection in humans. RELATED LINK • News: Patent row [Dec. 31, 2005] • Cover: Is influenza afflicting government? [March. 15, 2006] Tamiflu manufacturer, the Swiss pharma giant Roche, …
researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have developed a drug against hyperthyroidism which, unlike other medication, has an effect that is reversible. G Mugesh and his student, Gouriprasanna Roy, from the institute's department of inorganic and physical chemistry, modified the anti-thyroid drug, methimazole, by replacing the sulphur molecule …
green mussels (Perna viridis), found commonly in the Goa seawater, can yield malaria drugs, say scientists. Two active molecules have been isolated from the mussel by researchers from the National Institute of Oceanography (nio), Goa; the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune; and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and …
strongest glue: A bacterium that inhabits rivers, streams and human aqueducts uses nature's strongest glue to stay in one place, according to a study by scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and Brown University, both in the US. The scientists found a force of about 1 micronewton had to be applied …
a homoeopathic drug may offer a ray of hope to arsenic victims. An Indian study claims that Arsenicum Album-30 can help remove arsenic from the body. But allopathic doctors stressed the need for a more rigorous trial. The study was conducted by a team of researchers from West Bengal's University …
India is moving towards amending a law to introduce provisions that will make it impossible for Indian pharmaceutical companies to produce generic versions of patented drugs. If it goes through we can say goodbye to cheap versions of expensive, sometimes life-saving, drugs produced by mncs. The government wants to amend …
The case of Gleevec, a cancer drug required for 24,000 patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukaemia in India, highlights the problem with tough patenting regimes, including data exclusivity, in developing countries. Gleevec is made by Novartis and costs a patient Rs 120,000 a month, while Indian manufacturers claim they can …
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US have discovered a genetic switch that is crucial to cell survival. They found the gene HIF-1 controls the rate at which cells are supplied energy and even helps them cope with the absence of oxygen. A cell's energy demands are met …
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has declared a health emergency in the country following an acute shortage of drugs in the hospitals. The declaration was spurred by media reports about the death of a teenage haemophiliac boy at a hospital in Tegucigalpa, because of shortage of supplies of the clotting agent, …
A confirmatory method using liquid chromatography?electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry for determination of five macrolide antibiotics including spiramycin, tilmicosin, oleandomycin, erythromycin, and tylosin in raw milk is presented. Macrolides were extracted from raw milk by acetonitrile, and sample extracts were further cleaned up using solid-phase extraction cartridges. Data acquisition was …
Scientists have found that a drug commonly used to prevent excessive bleeding during cardiac surgery may double the chances of kidney failure. The patients injected with aprotinin, marketed as Trasylol by German pharma giant Bayer, were twice as likely to develop kidney problems and suffer from heart disorders as controls …
experts advocate the use of a new drug meloxicam to save the dwindling number of white-backed vultures, a rare South Asian variety. Many of them reckon nearly 95 per cent of these birds have gone missing after the anti-inflamatory drug diclofenac was introduced in 1994. The drug is prescribed to …
A patent application filed in India by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis ag, has been rejected. The company had filed for an Indian patent for the crystalline version of their off-patent anti-cancer drug, Gleevec. Rejecting the application, the office of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks in Chennai …
gross non-utilisation of budgetary allocation has severely hampered the growth of traditional systems of medicine in India, says the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (cag). In a recent report on the department of ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha and homeopathy (ayush), cag said the lack of money was clearly …
scientists at the University of Bonn, Germany, have identified a substance in sunflower that can prevent the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) from reproducing in cell cultures. Called dicaffeoyl quinic acid (dcqa), the chemical is produced when the plant is infected with a fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum , which causes the white …
