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 …
Daiichi Sankyo Company and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday announced an initiative to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania as part of their global social contribution activities. The initiative will be implemented in India through the Ranbaxy Community Health Care Society, a non-profit organisation established by …
Studies of patterns of antibiotic resistance in large hospitals that maintain regular records reveal that multi-resistance is rampant. We are facing 'an epidemic of antibiotic resistant infections'.
With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September 2010 to take stock of progress made thus far. Despite significant setbacks owing to the 2008-2009 …
Why is the pharmaceutical industry taking such a keen interest in the Pesticides Management Bill, 2008, or PMB, which would appear to be as far removed from drugs as chalk from cheese? The Bill, pending in Parliament since 2008, is all set to be debated in the current session with …
WHETHER taken for severe ailments like cancer or used occasionally for minor pains, painkillers have side-effects. It can be anything from lethargy and constipation to kidney or liver dysfunction. This is the reason scientists have lately turned to nature and are exploring traditional medicines in search of a drug with …
The Planning Commission of India has set up a working group to look into the drug regulatory mechanism in the country. One of the tasks the panel has been entrusted is to devise a strategy to weed out irrational drugs from the market. Most of these drugs are fixed dose …
Scientists claim to have achieved a major breakthrough in the fight against Type 1 diabetes by developing a treatment which would save sufferers from a lifetime of insulin injections. In Type 1 diabetes, the patient’s faulty immune system targets the pancreas. Without treatment, this causes so much damage that it …
Use Of Preventive Medicines For Stroke Low: Study New Delhi:An average Indian suffering from heart attack or stroke is seven times less likely to receive the inexpensive aspirin — the most commonly used anti-platelet drug — and 20 times less likely to receive statins than an average Canadian. In a …
Concerns about antibiotics focus on bacterial resistance — but permanent changes to our protective flora could have more serious consequences, says Martin Blaser.
The government’s ambitious mission to control diabetes has made a reluctant start. Worse, it suffers from lack of planning. The project was launched as part of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS). The first phase of the diabetes control project started …
The Indian government may have banned dicolfenac, a livestock painkiller, but the drug still continues to be sold in Punjab. It is also still killing vultures - one of the primary reasons for which it was banned. The drug was banned for veterinary use last year, but is easily available …
In last 4 yrs, 1,725 persons have died in clinical trials; weak law compounds risks For the first time since 2010 when six tribal girls from Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh involved in the clinical trials of anti-cervical cancer HPV vaccine died, the government has admitted that 1,725 persons have lost …
Bhopal: Bureaucratic indecision has resulted in the wastage of medicines worth Rs 27 lakh. The medicines bought about three years ago were meant for the rural poor undergoing treatment at Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad government hospital. Sources said a huge consignment of medicines, now past their expiry date, is lying in …
The world must act urgently to save the lives of millions affected by drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Friday. This week the UN announced that famine has struck three new areas of southern Somalia, while 12.4 million people in the surrounding …
Use of the veterinary drug diclofenac is responsible for bringing three species of Gyps vultures endemic to South Asia to the brink of extinction, and the Government of India banned veterinary use of the drug in May 2006. To evaluate the effectiveness of the ban we undertook surveys of . …
The comprehensive trade pact between India and Japan, which aims to nearly double bilateral trade to $25 billion by 2014, came into force from Monday. As per the agreement, Japan will immediately eliminate duties on 87 per cent of its tariff lines, a Commerce Ministry statement said. Most of these …
This refers to the editorial “When business rules our kitchens” (June 16-30, 2011). Do we want to sensationalise the issue of poor food safety regulations and use big companies as a whipping boy or work on the solutions? How are we going to deal with the fundamental issue of feeding …
THAT day when Darla Dhanalakshmi suffered severe joint pain and numbness in the limbs she knew something was seriously wrong. She had been suffering from the pain since January after she visited a clinic on the outskirts of Hyderabad. There she was asked to pop an unknown pill. The pain …
