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 …
'The "candidate drugs" for malaria, osteoporosis and diabetes were currently undergoing clinical trials'. The Indian pharmaceutical sector would soon be showcasing ‘candidate drugs’ for malaria, osteoporosis and diabetes, Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. With further R&D;, important breakthroughs could be on …
Prices of drugs for various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis & cancer to go up by 3.84% The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84% with effect from April 1. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing …
Two new Ebola vaccines have passed an important test, protecting monkeys against the strain of the virus responsible for the current deadly outbreak, researchers reported on Wednesday. Only one dose was needed, and there were no apparent side effects. The vaccines have not yet been tested in people, but safety …
Antibiotic resistance data from four big hospitals s being studied and analysed or the first time in India to help forecast drug-resistance patterns that may surface in uture. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has been on the resistance trail since last year. It had set up six nodal …
An experimental Ebola vaccine has been shown to effectively protect monkeys against the often-deadly virus, according to a study published Thursday. The new medicine, described in the journal Science, is what is known as a “whole virus” vaccine. This means it is based on a nonactive form of the entire …
DEHRADUN: Haridwar has emerged as the TB capital of the state with total 1,030 new cases detected in the last one year. TOI dug out data of TB patients and found out that Haridwar raced ahead of all other districts in the hill state in the number of positive cases …
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Results from an early trial of an Ebola vaccine developed by Chinese researchers indicate it is safe, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal. The findings suggest the high-dose vaccine is safe and "robustly immunogenic," its developers said Wednesday in the journal, …
Mumbai, the financial capital of India, has the dubious distinction of being home to the highest number of TB patients in the world. The city has a prevalence of over 50,000 tuberculosis cases. Worse, it is also the hub of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis with as many as 28000 notified …
On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. This post-2015 global tuberculosis strategy, labelled the End TB Strategy, was shaped during the past 2 years. A wide range of stakeholders—from ministries of health and …
As many as 10,000 persons were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) by private practitioners in the last one year in Tamil Nadu. The largest concentration of such persons was in northern and central regions of the State. Though private practitioners must notify a case once diagnosed, often they are hindered by …
The gruesome toll of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 4,200 Liberians of the more than 10,000 who have succumbed to the disease, has intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that previously infected relatively few people in remote areas. One year after the World …
A global phase 3 clinical trial named STAND (Shortening Treatment by Advancing Novel Drugs) in patients who are currently considered to have either drug-sensitive or multidrug-resistant TB has been launched by the TB Alliance and its partners. The Alliance announced that enrolment has begun in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, …
The deaths in Chhattisgarh during a state-sponsored family planning camp held in November 2014 show, yet again, that the lack of checklists and an ad hoc style of functioning can and does result in disaster. This article explains the need for standardisation and protocols in key government processes and talks …
Judgement of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Merck Sharp And Dohme Corporation and Others Vs Glenmark Pharmaceuticals dated 20/03/2015 regarding patent violation of Merck Sharp & Dohme diabetes drugs by Glenmark.
lthough current programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis have made significant progress it may be necessary to use different approaches to achieve the global goal, especially where compliance has been poor and ‘hot spots’ of continued infection exist. In the absence of alternative drugs, the use of higher or more frequent …
With the exception of Canada, all countries with universal health insurance systems provide universal coverage of prescription drugs. Progress toward universal public drug coverage in Canada has been slow, in part because of concerns about the potential costs. We sought to estimate the cost of implementing universal public coverage of …
According to the study, 42.2% of Indian women are underweight when they begin pregnancy, nearly seven percentage points higher than the figure of 35.5% cited in the National Family Health Survey-3 A new research study finds that average maternal nutrition in India is not only much worse than what national …
A marginal rise in swine flu tally for the city was recorded on Monday as eleven new cases came to light. With this the total number of cases in the city touched 516. However, keeping the mounting swine flu cases in mind, the health officials organised a mega awareness lecture …
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response on pharma major Reckitt Benckiser’s plea challenging a government notification mandating that every pack of cosmetics should indicate whether it has any ingredient of animal origin. A bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw issued notice to …
The Japanese company behind an experimental Ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in West Africa, but acknowledged it is “not a miracle drug.” In their first comments to the media since the release of early clinical trials last week, executives …
