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 …
Its cleverness is marred by its destructiveness. Thankfully scientists have just cracked the nitty-gritty of its inner workings. Yes, microbe Agrobacterium tumefaciens's complete genetic code has been deciphered. A tumefaciens infects plants and gives them tumours that start producing chemicals on which the microbe likes to feed. Now that its …
today, the quest to eliminate obesity has more than a slim chance of succeeding. Thanks to the discovery of a gene that controls the growth of fat cells. The recent research published in the journal Genes and Development says that the gene, discovered by Harvard University and pharmaceutical company Pfizer …
A Pretoria High Court judge has said in a ruling that hiv -infected pregnant women under the care of the state are entitled to a low-cost drug, Nevirapine, which reduces a newborn's risk of contracting the virus. About 70,000 children are infected annually due to mother-to-child transmission. The decision has …
A recent study by the London-based World Society for the Protection of Animals (wspa) and the Singapore-based Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (acres) have revealed that nearly 50 out of 68 Chinese medicine shops surveyed in Singapore sell banned products extracted from bears through a cruel practice. The study …
while thinking of West Bengal and Bangladesh, our mind conjures up images of people facing the menace of toxic and insidious arsenic. But a new study by Chinese researchers could soon change these. The study by Wang Wuyi and colleagues from the Institute of Geographical Sciences of the Chinese Academy …
a chicken a day would not keep bugs at bay. Yes, this mantra has been resounding in the scientific circle for long, but now scientists have found conclusive evidence that meat laced with antibiotics promotes the growth of super strains of drug-resistant microbes. Recently conducted studies show that regularly feeding …
The Supreme Court has ordered the committee for conservation, supervision and experimentation of animals to carry out inspection in units which produce anti-venom serum from blood taken from horses and see if these units are following the norms. Passing orders on a public interest litigation (PIL), the court said that …
DID modern medicine inadvertently give birth to one of the deadliest diseases of the 20th century? This is the question that is currently haunting medical circles . It is triggered by a hypothesis that points to a chilling linkage between large-scale use of penicillin injections and the origin and spread …
The Nigerian government has defended cheap generic aids drugs imported from India. Sani Gwarzo, the coordinator of Nigeria's aids programme, said, "India is advanced in the manufacture of drugs that we are buying.' Nigeria will soon start a trial programme to use cheap, imported generic aids medicines. The import of …
What is the need of regulating biotechnolgy? Biotechnology products have acquired a special significance today as they can be used to cure diseases where conventional drugs have failed. Unfortunately, despite a growing demand for these products, the existing regulations are not comprehensive enough to address the market needs adequately. What …
However, the Doha declaration does not take a decision on whether countries with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector will be allowed to import generic drugs to deal with a health crisis. Instead, it calls upon the trips council to
agriculture remains the biggest source of inequity in the world trading system. Unlike telecom, financial, and legal services, farming practices in the North have stoutly resisted the logic of market forces. Farming in the North thrives on prodigious subsidies and price support systems combined with coddling protection through high tariffs …
Developing countries also fear the huge costs associated with greener technologies, which will be unbearable by their domestic industries. It could make their goods uncompetitive in western markets. This unequivocal opposition to greening of trade is what brings the motley crew of poor countries together. “If there’s one thing that …
the choice of venue was clever and the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center added to the security paranoia. The result was that it combined to give trade negotiators somewhat of a breather when they met in Doha, Qatar, for the fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade …
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, US , has admitted that one of its researchers used patients at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Kerala as human guinea pigs to test experimental cancer drugs. The internal investigation conducted by the varsity has found that its faculty member carried …
a common virus called human herpesvirus 6 (hhv-6) prevents a form of the aids virus from reproducing. This was found during a laboratory study on cultures of human tissue. The study team led by Leonid Margolis of the us -based National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (nichd), included …
the issue of access to drugs has shifted from anti aids drugs in Africa to anti anthrax drugs in the us. The us government is contemplating to override the patent on Ciprofloxacin, which is held by the German pharmaceutical company, Bayer and procure generic copies from other sources. This move …
The 4th wto ministerial conference in Doha has granted that governments are free to take all necessary measures to protect public health. Simply put, governments can override patents without the threat of a backlash of large pharma multinationals. It is now upto governments to use these powers to bring down …
Pharmacists and government officials in Nepal have expressed their concern about spurious and poor quality medicines that are doing the rounds in the country. According to officials of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Executive Association of Nepal (PEAN), the situation is particularly worse in the Terai region. "In some areas of Terai, …
