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 group of French researchers has come across a bubonic plague bacterium that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. The bacterium, called Yersenia pestis (y pestis), was isolated from a 16-year-old boy from Madagascar in southern Africa. It has developed resistance to all first-line antibiotics and principal alternate drugs used to …
herbal medicines are gradually gaining acceptance in the us. The Food and Drug Administration (fda), recently agreed to allow a British company to test a herbal eczema treatment on people, even though its active ingredient is not known. Till now, fda was only willing to approve trials once the active …
Patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have shown a positive response to some experimental drugs. They experienced decrease in the pain and swelling in joints after taking these genetically engineered drugs. The drugs inhibit the action of a substance called tumour necrosis factor (TNF) that is responsible for the severe pain …
Artemether, the drug used as the last line of defence against malaria is being widely used in Africa. But experts have cautioned that the drug should not be used until resistance to the traditional drug, quinine, becomes ineffective. By prescribing Artemether - mainly to wealthy patients - even before testing …
The following macrolide antibiotics have been covered in this review: erythromycin and its related substances, azithromycin, clarithromycin, dirithromycin, roxithromycin, flurithromycin, josamycin, rokitamycin, kitasamycin, mycinamycin, mirosamycin, oleandomycin, rosaramicin, spiramycin and tylosin. The application of various thin-layer chromatography, paper chromatography, gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary zone electrophoresis procedures for their …
inexpensive cures: Drugs to combat the HIV virus may become cheaper in Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire, Chile and Vietnam. Pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and Hoffmann-La Roche have decided to cut rates and supply drugs to these countries. The two-year pilot initiative has been organised by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS. …
a tiny laboratory would help speed up the searching process for drugs. Researchers at the Orchid Biocomputer of Princeton, New Jersey, usa , have developed this laboratory on a "chip' that consists of 144 chambers. In the new laboratory, a large number of chemical compounds could be synthesised and monitored …
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is preparing a new set of guidelines to deal with the "ethics and informed consent" in drug and genetic tests on people. The draft - Statement of principles on medical and genetic research on human subjects - prepared by a committee headed by …
studies have shown that when some common blood pressure-reducing drugs are taken with the juice of the grapefruit, the impact of these drugs significantly increases as compared to the conventional way of taking them with water. There are other drugs besides the blood pressure ( bp) regulators that are affected …
prescribing drugs according to the will of patients is proving hazardous throughout the world. Private hospitals and clinics on the street are often suspected of adopting such practices. As a result, more and more bacteria are responding to people's overuse of antibiotics by evolving new ways to combat drug effects. …
a protein has been found in the body's main weight-regulating system that could be targeted to develop obesity drugs. Gregory Barsh and his colleagues at Standford University School of Medicine, California, usa, have named the protein as aguoti-related protein ( agrp ). In 1994, researchers had discovered leptin, a protein …
A REPORT written by leading pharmacologists claims that about 20 per cent of the drugs prescribed in Germany offer no real clinical benefits. The report says that distinguishing between effec-tive medicines and worthless treatment is particularly difficult in Germany. Of the 50,000 prescription drugs currently in the market, nearly 33,000 …
drug-resistant bacteria have been posing serious threats to human life for long. Now, researchers have developed a genetic engineering technique that helps render such bacteria drug sensitive. A team of researchers led by Sidney Altman at the Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, usa , used plasmids to infiltrate drug resistant …
two anti-obesity drugs are to be withdrawn from worldwide sale amid growing evidence that they may caused heart abnormalities. The us Food and Drug Administration has said that there is "new evidence about significant side-effects'. This will mean that appetite suppressants, Adifax and Ponderax, will no longer be available in …
a drug is being developed that would help repair damaged nerves in patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Two groups of researchers, one led by Guilford at Johns Hopkins University and another led by Bruce Gold at Oregon Health Sciences University, discovered the drug several years …
the use of appetite suppressant drugs adversely affects the health of people, according to reports published in the uk and usa . Dexfenfluramine, a commonly prescribed dieting drug, boosts the levels of serotonin in brain and influences the neurotransmitter that carry chemical signals across the tiny gaps between one neurone …
considering the amount of money that has gone into it, failure to control malaria is one of the more outstanding setbacks on the health front in independent India. According to an estimate, malaria cost the country between us $0.5 and 1 billion (Rs 1787.5 and 3575 crore) in 1991. In …
one of the most problematic substances in the human body is cholesterol. The steep rise in the number of people with heart ailments has made a villain of this key chemical, necessary for several bodily functions such as synthesis of bile acids and hormones. Cholesterol is both made within the …
THE latest source that promises new hope for cancer patients is an African tree. A drug derived from the bark of the African bush willow has been found to hamper blood supply to cancer cells. Tests have shown that it can kill up to 95 per cent of solid turnour …
