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 …
Tiered pricing - the concept of selling drugs and vaccines in developing countries at prices systematically lower than in industrialized countries - has received widespread support from industry, policymakers, civil society, and academics as a way to improve access to medicines for the poor. We carried out case studies based …
A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet today. The so-called Avahan project was launched in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, along with the northeastern …
Delhi Government has confirmed the prevalence of Superbug in the hospitals of Delhi. The bug has been found in the range of 0.04 per cent to 0.08 per cent. The Government, however, claims that the situation is not alarming and is under control. The Minister also informed that Union Government …
Malaria is a disease that has been with us for all of human history. Malarial parasites are known to infect all terrestrial vertebrates. They are notable for their ability to survive and develop in the environment of vectors that transmit them from host to host, spreading disease. (Editorial)
New Delhi: The government’s bold decision to clamp down on over-the-counter sale of third generation antibiotics has been shelved for the time being. Just days before the drug controller general of India was to notify Schedule H1, the health ministry decided that a “broader consensus was required” and withheld its …
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals is reaching alarming levels and is set to rise. New partnerships between drug companies, the public-health sector and those who deliver environmental sustainability are urgently needed to tackle the issue. (Correspondence)
Says the country has 100 million carriers of antibiotic-resistant NDM gene The man who discovered the “superbug” and traced to New Delhi a new gene that made bacteria resistant to a whole range of antibiotics today again warned India of the growing community prevalence of drug-resistant pathogens and said over-the-counter …
New Delhi: India might have vehemently opposed an antibiotic-resistant superbug being named New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM1), but a study in a leading city hospital has found a worryingly high prevalence of the deadly gene. According to a study carried out in the ICU and wards of Sir Ganga Ram …
An ambitious scheme for distribution of free medicines at all government hospitals and health care institutions started here on Sunday amid reports of insufficient supply of drugs at several places and shortage of doctors, para-medical staff and pharmacists mainly at the primary health centres in villages. Long queues of patients …
JAIPUR: The state government on Sunday launched its ambitious scheme to provide free medicines to all-irrespective of poor or rich. Inaugurating the scheme at Ramkaran Joshi government general hospital in Dausa, chief minister Ashok Gehlot said: "We have started with 200 medicines and it will be increased to 400 medicines …
Seven new Bills and several new amendments to existing acts were to be brought in order to streamline the health service, according to the Health Ministry sources. It is learnt that the drafting of these new Bills and the Amendments has been finalized along with the national drugs policy by …
Seniors who take aspirin daily are twice as likely to have late stage macular degeneration, an age-related loss of vision, than people who never take the pain reliever, a new European study reports. The data do not show that aspirin causes vision loss. But the findings are of concern if …
Suspected or complicated intra-abdominal infections are common in young infants and lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Meropenem is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent with excellent activity against pathogens associated with intra-abdominal infections in this population. The purpose of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) of meropenem in young …
The first case of thalassaemia, described in a non-Mediterranean person, was from India. Subsequently, cases of thalassaemia were documented in all parts of India. Centres for care of thalassaemics were started in the mid-1970s in Mumbai and Delhi, and then in other cities. The parent’s associations, with the help of …
The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Policy 2011 presently seeks to limit itself to the central objective of promulgating the principles for pricing of Essential Drugs as laid down in the “National List of Essential Medicines ‐ 2011” as declared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India vide …
Last week just as Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis was set to begin its final arguments in the Supreme Court against the rejection of a patent for its cancer drug Glivec (see ‘Evergreen Novartis’, Down To Earth, September 1-15) there were two swift and stunning developments. A letter was written by …
AHMEDABAD: The city is the cardiac emergency capital of the state with over 20,500 cases reported from August 2007 to August 2011 by GVK EMRI 108 officials. This means that the city has an average of 14 heart-related emergencies everyday. According to a recent survey by Emergency Research Management Institute …
AHMEDABAD: The city is the cardiac emergency capital of the state with over 20,500 cases reported from August 2007 to August 2011 by GVK EMRI 108 officials. This means that the city has an average of 14 heart-related emergencies everyday. According to a recent survey by Emergency Research Management Institute …
A report by an expert group on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has suggested wide-ranging institutional reforms to regulate the public and the private sectors to ensure assured quality and rational pricing of healthcare services. The group, set up by the Planning Commission to develop a blue print and investment plan …
