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 …
gujarat has become the first Indian state to stop the use of diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used on livestock and considered crucial in the decline of the country's vulture population. Diclofenac is believed to cause poisoning in vultures that feed on dead livestock treated with it. During a workshop …
The use of the two macrolides antibiotics Spiramycin (S) and Tylosin (T) as growth promoters in animal feeding has been recently withdrawn in the European Union due to a concern about the outbreaks of farmacoresistance fenomena as a possible hazard for humans. For feed additives monitoring purposes, an analytical method …
no fishy treatment: A human blood clotting agent required for treating haemophilia and serious bleeding has been produced using genetically modified fish by researchers from the University of Southampton, the UK. There is still a long way to go before the product reaches the market, but if the project is …
the typhoid bacterium has become resistant to antibiotics, shows a two-year-long study by researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims), New Delhi. The main reason behind the phenomenon is indiscriminate use of antibiotics. For example, ciprofloxacin, the drug presently being used widely to fight typhoid, is also …
The World Obesity Congress and Expo held in Washington dc, usa on July 12-13 this year was all about anti-obesity drugs: educating industry about new research on it, and finding ways to enhance business in this area. The Expo's focus was extremely timely: two days later, the us department of …
Depressed? A sip of water might be just the thing to lift your spirits. In the uk, rivers as well as groundwater reserves are teeming with the antidepressant Prozac, reveals an Environment Agency report. Experts say the drug gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water. The …
Is the World Health Organization (WHO) targeting Indian generic drug manufacturers? The UN agency recently removed three anti-HIV drugs produced by India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited from its prequalification list. This list is used by procurement agencies to select good quality medicines. Exclusion from the list could affect the availability of …
only for the needy: A heart drug could soon become the world's first medicine to be used for a specific ethnic group. The drug, manufactured by US-based pharmaceutical company NitroMed, was abandoned in the 1980s after unimpressive results of a trial. But the findings hinted at differences between white and …
the Supreme Court (sc) has issued two notices to the Union government, within a span of two weeks, over the grant of exclusive marketing rights (emrs) to pharmaceutical companies under the Indian Patents Act, 2002. The notices have been issued in response to two writ petitions challenging the emrs on …
Chemical analysis of the famous fish medicine to treat asthma, administered free of cost to millions every June in Hyderabad by members of the Goud family, has revealed it contains no known medication for the disease. The tests were carried out following a recent order of the Hyderabad High Court, …
as part of its initiative to promote traditional systems of medicine, the World Health Organization (who) has recently set forth a set of guidelines to help member states evolve regulations aimed at providing consumers with information on the appropriate use of the remedies. Currently, 80 per cent of the world …
yet another instance of outsourcing of high-risk clinical drug trials has been brought to light by a child specialist of a reputed hospital in New Delhi. The doctor recently told Down To Earth (dte) that in August last year, Mumbai-based contract research organisation Siro Clinpharm Private Limited asked him to …
Canada is on the verge of becoming the first nation to honour a World Trade Organization (wto) pledge on making available cheap generic drugs for hiv/aids-afflicted people in developing countries. The Canadian House of Commons unanimously approved a bill (c-9) that would amend the country's patent laws. The proposed legislation …
only mother's son: Japanese and Korean scientists have created a mouse without using a sperm. The feat is akin to the birth of Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal. Bees, ants, aphids, some fish and reptiles reproduce without having sex in a process called parthenogenesis. But creating a living mammal …
ARTEMISININ, a drug isolated from sweet wormwood, has finally been approved by global health agencies as the first line of treatment of malaria instead of quinine, to which Plasmodium is showing increased resistance. The treatment is given as a cocktail known as artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and it has shown …
The Soil Association (sa), an organic farming group, has found that up to 20 million eggs sold in the uk each week could contain traces of a potentially dangerous drug. In tests, nearly one in eight egg samples contained residues of the antibiotic lasalocid, harmful to people with heart ailments. …
should doctors heed science or the law? Science, says the Indian Medical Association (ima). In a report submitted recently to the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw), an expert group of the ima has strongly recommended the off-label use of drugs. It, however, adds that such usage should …
Tuberculosis (tb) kills two million people worldwide, one-third of the world's population is currently infected, of them roughly eight million develop active tb each year. But at the Stop tb Partnership Summit held in New Delhi on 24-26 March 2004, moods were buoyant. The World Health Organization's (who), The 2004 …
Scientists from Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (iisc) have developed an inverter, which could help power refrigerators storing life-saving drugs and vaccines in rural areas. Due to frequent power cuts, the medicines, which are rarely available in the rural places, go bad. Consequently, instead of having beneficial effects, they can …
