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 …
US regulators have approved thalidomlde, the drug which was banned for causing birth defects. The drug will be tested for cancer treatment. Celgenc, a New Jersey-based company, has been permitted to test Thslomid, the company's version of thabdomide, against multiple myeloma, the most common form of bone marrow cancer. The …
Belgian park exported to the UK could contain traces of banned drugs used to tranquillise pigs on their way to the battoir. The chemicals could be placing UK consumers at risk claims a division of the British Veterinary Association. The Pig Veterinary Society said it was 'deeply canceracd' that consumer …
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded the 1998 Nobel prize for economics to Amartya Sen. Sen's pioneering work in measuring poverty and inequality and probing the reasons for the economic famines in the Third World countries won him the esteemed pri2e. He became the sixth Indian to win a …
VIAGRA IN INDIA: The much hyped wonder pill Viagra will be launched by the Delhi-based Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. Clinical trials will be held across the country, including the historical King Georges Medical College (KGMC) in Lucknow. The company is awaiting clearance from the Drug Controller of India. Viagra will be …
Chagas' disease kills nearly 50,000 people in Latin America every year. It is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which can permanently damage heart and nervous system. Till now, all the treatment attempted to cure the disease have been unsuccessful. Recently, the doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, …
ARMED forces medical services have started giving a lot of importance to geriatric medicine. Studies have revealed that a large number of patients admitted to military hospitals suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other neurocognitive disorders. By 2020, the number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease will double in India to …
DRUGS are big money. And it is not hallucinogens or drug peddlers that are being discussed here but drug peddling by the pharmaceutical industry. In absence of a rational policy the world over, these companies are having a field day. And all of them have the same motto: to hell …
The next generation of anti-AIDS drugs could be based on a chemical extracted from green coffee beans, US researchers claim. Edward Robinson and his colleagues from the University of California made extracts from over 60 plants routinely used by medicine men of the Kallawaya tribes in Bolivia. They discovered that …
CANCER VACCINE: Researchers at the Kanazawa University and Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy in Japan claim to have developed a cancer vaccine that boosts the body's capacity to build anti-cancer immune responses. According to the researchers, when laboratory mice were injected with this vaccine, transplanted cancer cells failed to multiply. If …
DRUG addiction: every parent's nightmare. What incites their otherwise-normal, teenage children to use drugs? Is it peer-induced, or do genes play an important role? There are several theories on the issue, but none can answer the question satisfactorily. Unable to find any answers, researchers in the UK are now adopting …
BETWEEN our eyes, something always smells. Right, it is the nose. And till now, the nose has always taken the rear seat when it came to radical medical breakthroughs. But now, those with a nose for innovation have found a novel use for... well, the nose, US researchers say very …
A validated, highly sensitive and precise high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the determination of the macrolides erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin and roxithromycin in human serum is described. A diethyl ether extract, obtained from serum using a saturated sodium carbonate solution, was treated with 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride (FMOC
Do not use antibiotics every time you sneeze, researchers at the National Public Health Institute of Finland have advised patients suffering from symptoms of common cold. A new study confirms that almost all colds are, in fact, caused by viruses, and so antibiotics should not be used to treat them. …
DAM FAILURE: Boliden, a Canadian mining company, blamed falling metal prices and costs associated with a dam rupture for the company's second-quarter loss. Pre-tax losses were $52.1 million compared with restated earnings of $19.7 million in the same time last year. The dam failure at the Los Frailes zinc mine …
According to the latest reports, sucralose, a new sugar substitute, has won the US Food and Drug Administration's (PDA's) approval as the first artificial sweetener to be used in a wide range of products. Sucralose was approved by the PDA for all practical uses as an artificial sweetener, including sweetening …
WHAT is common to syringes and mosquitoes? Both, to a point, perform similar functions: piercing the skin and drawing blood. But syringes, unlike mosquitoes, do not infect us with diseases. Malaria, filariasis, dengue... spread thanks these winged pests. However, researchers are now trying to genetically alter mosquitoes so that they …
SEVERAL studies show how human breast milk is far superior to the much-advertised artificial milk formulae. Compared to infants fed on these, those fed on breast milk have lower rates of diarrhoea, ear infections and bacterial meningitis an infection that causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. In this …
DEAD men tell no tales, but thanks to science, they can sure make babies, In a first-of-its-kind operation, sperm from a dead man have been used for the first time to establish a pregnancy. This seems sure to intensify calls for reproductive technologies to be more tightly regulated. The man …
The division bench of the Mumbai high court consisting of Ochief Justice M B Shah and justice Jahangirdar directed the Union department of family welfare to place an order of 4.3 crore doses of oral polio vaccine with Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd. It has been agreed that the department of …
Acupuncture seems to activate the parts of the brain involved in pain control, say scientists in Taiwan. Jen-Chuen Hseih of the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei and his colleagues used positron emission tomography (PET) to look at blood flow in the brains of 10 volunteers being given acupuncture between the …
