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 National Drug Policy on Malaria was first formulated in 1982 and has subsequently been reviewed and revised periodically. The present National Drug Policy for Malaria (2010) has been drafted keeping in view the availability of more effective antimalarial drugs and drug resistance status in the country.
In May 2007, resolution WHA60.1 of the World Health Assembly requested the Director‐General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to undertake a major review, in 2010, of the state of smallpox research and additional related research needed for public health purposes. This was undertaken so that the sixty‐fourth World Health …
Wellington: The use of paracetamol for infants may be linked to the development of allergies and asthma later on. But more research is needed to clarify this and the benefits of paracetamol use for fever control still outweigh the potential of later allergy development, said Julian Crane, a professor at …
Arestless crowd outside an auditorium seems quite out of place at Wai. The lush green temple town at the foothills of Panchgani in Maharashtra is used to prayer-chanting pilgrim throngs. But at Chitra Talkies it is a cacophony of wolf whistles. The crowds get more raucous when the amplifiers inside …
The union health ministry is finalising the national antibiotics policy to check indiscriminate use of drugs. The move comes close on the heels of the detection of multi-drug resistant bacteria, dubbed superbug, in foreign patients who underwent treatment in India and Pakistan; it was reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases …
If India is becoming a favourite destination for clinical trials, Maharashtra is the hub with Mumbai and Pune accounting for the largest number of clinical trials in the country. Maharashtra alone accounted for well over a quarter of all the clinical trials registered with the clinical trials registry of India …
If politicians can find the courage to defy a hostile press, a rational policy on drugs will not only be possible but ultimately popular too, says Dick Taverne.
A recent civil society-led investigation has highlighted serious ethical violations in a trial of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine on girls in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh. The findings are presented along with a review of clinical trials of the hpv vaccine in India and an analysis of the Drugs …
Initiates action for alleged adverse reactions of medicines. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the apex drug regulator, may soon ban the production and sale of three medicines in the country. The drugs
MALARIAL parasites are known to develop quick resistance to drugs. Two groups of scientists, working independently on alternative drugs for malaria, have identified a couple of compounds that could treat drug-resistant malaria. One team synthesised and evaluated a compound called spiroindolone NITD 609. It is effective against drug resistant strains …
FOOD Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued an advisory stating that residues of antibiotics and pesticide are not allowed in honey. The authority said India follows stringent safety standards similar to the EU and the US, where use of antibiotics in honey is illegal. The move was …
The popular anti-obesity drug sibutramine, marketed in India by a dozen companies under brand names such as Reductil, Meridia and Sibutrex, is likely to be banned. The drug, prescribed worldwide for three decades, has been linked in research over the past few years with increased cardiovascular events like cardiac arrests …
About hundred students of a primary school at a village in Hungund taluk were taken ill today after they were given choloroquin, an anti-malarial drug.At least 30 of the affected students were taken to hospital, official sources said. District Health Official Dr Choudhary said the children, who consumed the drug …
For the last two years, Sanjana Arora, 23, hasn’t eaten out. Period. She hasn’t tasted Coke or pizza, pasta or dal makhni, snacks from street vendors, not even a piece of birthday cake. It all began as a reaction to a Chinese food dinner she ate about three years ago …
27-Nation Block Interested In Settling Issue Outside WTO & Has Expressed Hope That Note Would Be Satisfactory THE European Union has offered fresh suggestions to prevent wrongful confiscation of Indian generic drugs during transit through European countries, a move that hints at its seriousness about settling the issue . The …
