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 …
Mumbai: Ever heard of a medical iron tablet actually containing free iron particles, that too in a huge quantity? State food and drug administration commissioner Mahesh Zagde initially did not believe it. However, when a Thanebased consumer presented him with the evidence, he was left both stunned and horrified. “The …
With more and more multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) cases getting added to the list, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and state officials are in a fix. A state official associated with tuberculosis control in the state said that they have been notified of 31 XDR-TB …
A technique of cancer therapy which won Canadian immunologist Ralph Steinman the medicine Nobel in October has been undergoing clinical trials in India for the last 3 months. Dendritic cell therapy (DCT) — the fourth line of treatment after chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery — involves the activation of the body’s …
The Global Fund’s drive to ensure sustainability and efficiency means that it may not be able to meet its commitments to combat disease, says Laurie Garrett.
New Delhi: Now, diagnosing multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB) patients will take less than two hours. India has cleared the proposal to roll out a new diagnostic test GeneXpert across 18 sites that will test and confirm MDR TB within 120 minutes. About 99,000 Indians suffering from TB are becoming …
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates in London on Monday launched an initiative along with 13 pharmaceutical firms, World Health Organisation, World Bank and the US, UK and UAE governments to eliminate or control 10 neglected tropical diseases by the end of 2020. At present, 1.4 billion people worldwide, most …
MUMBAI: A Thane-based consumer has alerted the food and drug administration about iron pieces being found in a medically-prescribed iron tablet. The content of elemental iron in the tablet, prescribed for anaemia or lack of red blood cells, was way above permissible limits. FDA commissioner Mahesh Zagde has directed the …
MUMBAI: Ever heard of a medical iron tablet actually containing free iron particles, that too in a huge quantity? State food and drug administration (FDA) commissioner Mahesh Zagde initially did not believe it. However, when a Thane-based consumer presented him with the evidence, he was left both stunned and horrified. …
The challenge is to build on India’s recent successes in vaccine research to reach the global cutting edge in producing vaccines for killer diseases such as HIV and TB. Vaccines are a true gift of science to humanity. In developing countries, prevention is better than cure. Vaccines have a great …
After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will cost the government double the amount. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had in 2010 recommended to phase out Stavudine due to …
India will soon ban blood tests to detect tuberculosis (TB) that are widely available across the country. An expert group set up by the Drug Controller General of India has found that blood tests are mostly inaccurate for TB detection. It has recommended to the Union health ministry to immediately …
The government is putting in place safety standards for honey after it has been found that lots, even those sold by top brands, had traces of antibiotics and pesticides in them. The Food And Safety Standards of India (FSSAI) will soon make it mandatory that honey samples conform to these …
KOHIMA: The Dimapur Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (DNP+) in Dimapur has expressed concerns over the detection of as many as 267 HIV and AIDS cases in children, as per the latest report of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dimapur. Speaking at a programme organised by Young’s Club …
Following the questions raised by the Union Health Ministry’s Central TB division about the presence of a total drug resistant TB (TDR-TB) in the city, the BMC is now working on multiple projects in its attempt to take stock of the TB situation. Apart from the anti-TB blueprint that the …
Even as the Centre refused to acknowledge the emergence of totally drug resistant (TDR) TB cases, the Maharashtra government has decided to introduce mandatory notification of all multi drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis cases. Non-compliance of this notification will attract punishment. The Maharashtra government will also …
Change the current drug policy was the refrain at a meeting of doctors at the KEM Hospital on Wednesday to chart out and discuss the plan of containing the XXDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB). Presenting his case to a team from Delhi and top city doctors, Dr P Keskar, head …
To curb the rise in cases of extensively drug resistant TB (XXDR-TB) in the city, the state medical education department plans to set up a dedicated research centre on drug resistance at Sir JJ Hospital. This research centre will be part of the hospital’s new super-specialty department. “The rise in …
Denying the existence of Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, the Central team, which held its final meeting at St. George’s Hospital Complex on Wednesday claimed that the fatal form of TB, which had created panic in the country was in fact Extra Extensively Drug Resistat (XXDR) TB. The Central team …
