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 …
in a recent issue of the journal Current Opinion in Genetics and Development (Vol 6, No 3), D J Weatherall and A O M Wilkie of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford, uk, provide a succinct introduction to the current state of understanding in the area of human genetics …
the Himalayan yew (Taxus wallichiana), a rare tree found in the Himalayan foothills, is fast disappearing because of largescale illegal felling for an anti-cancer drug made from its leaves and bark. The tree parts are allegedly smuggled to laboratories in the us, Germany and other Western countries involved in research …
Local pharmaceutical groups in Jakarta have decried a draft law aimed at a drug patents crackdown by the government. The roaring medicine business in the city is attributed to several copies of same drugs being sold. And there is nothing to stop any of Indonesia's 240 drug companies from launching …
for all parents in the us who suspect that their children are using drugs, a government-approved kit will soon be at their disposal. The kit called "Dr Brown's Home Drug Testing System" has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (fda) for use. The nod came four months …
a group of British biochemists have discovered a cavity in the molecular structure of an enzyme, essential to the malarial parasite, which could act as a docking point for tailor-made drugs designed to inactivate the enzyme and disable the parasite. The most deadly parasitic protozoan Plasmodum falciparum , which kills …
Ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac) is one of the most extensively studied and widely used drugs of all time. This has provided an excellent opportunity to define its safety profile. Original Source
the latest item to join the list of banned products in Europe because of its possible risk to human health is an antibiotic called avoparcin. The European Union (eu) is going to ban the antibiotic following latest evidence from Denmark and Germany showing that the drug develops resistance to certain …
A safely tested new drug to help septuagenarians remember was disclosed at the recent annual meeting of neuroscience in Washington, US. The drug contains a new class of molecules called ampakines, which accelerate intra-cellular information. In the study, Stockholm-based men aged between 65 and 73, who took the drug scored …
sparkling green: Now, Americans will be able to wash their dishes clean in a green way, thanks to an eco-friendly dishwasher launched by Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate of Germany. The company will build a factory in North Carolina, US, to produce dishwashers that promise to save water and energy. The plant will …
On December 26, 1996, the Convention to Combat Desertification, a UN treaty aimed against formation of new deserts, came into force. It was one of the pacts agreed at the UN sponsored Rio summit in 1992, as part of an action plan to protect the global environment. Besides checking desertification …
melatonin, considered a miracle hormone that banishes illness and reverses ageing has attracted the attention of the public health policy makers in the us. A meeting on melatonin at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, called for a multicentre clinical trial to determine melatonin's efficacy and safety ( jama , …
Drugs that combat growth of cancer by blocking blood supply lines for tumours are being tried for the first time on humans. These new compounds disrupt the chemical signals exclusive to tumours and thus will have fewer side effects. All the five new molecules discovered by Sugen, a California-based company, …
IT IS well known that indiscriminate use of antibiotics or antimicrobial agents generally carries with it major risks. The reason why resistant microbes establish themselves in a population is simple. Every time one tries to eliminate a microbial infection, one is unwillingly carrying out an evolutionary lottery in which the …
AT A recent meeting of the American Heart Association in New Orleans, researchers report that a safer and better alternative to aspirin has been manufactured to inhibit heart attacks and strokes. The new blood thinner called clopidogrel was tested by a Canadian team of researchers on more than 19,000 people …
The growing global menace of drug resistant germs compounding the problem of infectious disease control has been traced to economy measures in hospitals. Jerome Schentag, University of Buffalo, New York told the American Society of Microbiology that in view of the high cost of antibiotics, physicians prescribe only a few …
latest research on anti-inflammation drugs may make it possible to replace the formulation which is the most commonly used today, and is probably also the most damaging: aspirin. Few people know that it can be dangerous. The chronic and indiscriminate use of aspirin can lead to stomach bleeding, kidney failure, …
researchers , politicians and patient-activists traded progress reports about the deadly spread of the human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv ) at the 11th international conference on aids recently. Twenty-two million people live with aids today, and five new victims are infected every minute. New drug combinations that have beaten the …
there are already numerous drugs which aid in controlling cancer or even curing it if detected in the early stages. But the drugs, as observed in so many cases, are user specific and their effects vary from person to person depending on factors like the sensitivity of a person, the …
a number of drugs absorb into the body much more easily if taken along with grapefruit juice. Studies are still going on to determine the real cause of this increased absorptivity, so that drugs can be manufactured or modified for them to be more effective. "Patients who take calcium channel …
