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 …
cows are creating news again. They have been instrumental in relieving the pain suffered by six terminally ill patients in Switzerland. When cultured cells from the adrenal glands of cows were implanted into the spines of these patients, they produced a cocktail of natural painkillers. The various painkilling molecules produced …
Asia's first drug information network has become operational in Kathmandu from September 23. The network aims at providing pharmacists, students, researchers, consumers and patients among others, information pertaining to drugs like regulatory mechanisms, dosage, storage, availability, prices etc. It can be accessed through telephone, mail or person-to-person contact. The network …
chocolate could actually be a drug in disguise. Scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, a privately supported, non-profit laboratory in the us, report that chocolate contains three chemicals which could mimic the actions of marijuana. This could be the reason behind the well-being expressed by people who have …
it is a known fact that smoking is injurious to health, but it is only recently that nicotine, the neuroactive compound in tobacco, has been proved to be addictive. Nicotine was often thought of as a weak reinforcer when compared to other drugs like cocaine and heroin and was therefore …
after nearly four centuries of somnolent neglect, Sri Lanka is finally waking up to the magic of its traditional systems of medicine. The creation of a separate ministry of indigenous medicine in 1980 was the culmination of a series of measures taken by successive governments to revive traditional medical systems, …
new research on an ancient Chinese treatment for skin disorders and other maladies, has brought to light the fact that the traditional remedy can actually deal more effectively with virulent forms of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (apl), a rare blood cancer, than was previously thought. Arsenic trioxide, one of the ingredients …
For those who are tired of battling it out with colds, this may come as a relief. A study published in the Lancet says that 20 per cent of the people suffering from cold could benefit by taking antibiotics. Although common cold is actually caused by a class of virus …
malaria seems to be India's growing nemesis. In Rajasthan, 3,000 documented deaths were attributed to malaria last year. However, Vikas Rampal of the Delhi-based Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narain Hospital cynically remarked, "Three thousand means 30,000! There is an official apathy to admit that there is a rise in the incidence …
According to a report in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , one out of five intensive care nurses in the US has intentionally hastened the death of a terminally ill patient without the knowledge of the patient's doctor. An overdose of painkilling opiates has been …
People with high cholesterol can reduce the risk of a first time heart attack by 31 per cent and the risk or death by 22 per cent by takIng a widely prescribed drug tailed pravastatin sodium. This was the conclusion ofa landmark study in the UK -the West of Scotland …
CANCER patients at a hospital in Edinburgh are being treated with a drug that gums up the molecular :ccelerator pedals' on the surface of tumour cells. Blocking these sites could halt the growth of tumour cells, so that they wither and die. The drug is designed to treat small-celllung cancer, …
RESEARCHERS at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL) in Jammu have sought government approval for a novel anti-TB therapy containing the pepper extract, piperine. The extract is to be used in addition to the standard TB drugs. The molecules of piperine have a unique ability to increase the effectiveness of conventional …
A two-drug therapy that promises to cure stomach ulcers and prevent their recurrence has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Under the newly approved regimen, patients will take the existing ulcer drug Prilosec in conjunction with an antibiotic called Biaxin for 14 days, then continue to take …
THIS one's for the believers in the grow- young pills. The drug that was once hailed as an anti-aging agent is now being discredited. Human growth hor- mone, the drug under question, created euphoria among health freaks when it was reported to reverse the aging process. A recent study, how- …
GET high on marijuana and remain low in cognition. Impairment in mental flexibility and abstraction are some of the long-term effects of the drug that otherwise gives what the addicts term as a pleasureable kick. Immensely popular with a section of the youth, marijuana has remained low on the priority …
IT COULD be the key to unlocking the mystery of the AIDS virus. Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland, have found a protein that enables the entry Of HIV, the AIDS virus, into human immune system cells, signalling a deadly cycle of destruction. …
McNeil Consumer Products of Fort Washington, US, has come out with Nictrol NS, aDasal spray containing 100 mg of pure nicotine to 'wean off people &om; smoking. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the product on the condition that it will be sold by prescription to adults who want …
DRUG development may not take as long as it once did. A new method of 'combinatorial chemistry' is being tested at a laboratory of Pharmacopeia Inc in Princeton, New Jersey, us. To rapidly screen scores of chemicals against diseases, combinatorial chemistry employs computers, robots and biotechnology research information to come …
A TEAM of researchers from the school Of biotechnology of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) in Tamil Nadu, has developed a new drug that could relieve the burden of treatment expenses for cancer patients. They have developed an inexpensive version of the anti-cancer antibiotic, adriamycin, which is being imported currently. The …
