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 …
In high-end private hospitals, patients are not allowed to buy medicines from outside, which are priced up to 400% less than what the hospital charges Abantika Ghosh | TNN Insurance companies who stopped cashless insurance facility in some private hospitals smelling a rat in the billing process, may have had …
The death knell was sounded only five years ago when environmentalists found that the vulture was vanishing faster than the dodo before its extinction. Twenty years ago, Indian vultures numbered 40 million; today, they add up to a measly 60,000. The bad news is that if immediate steps are not …
The Pinjore vulture breeding centre may save the endangered bird Nesting Grounds * India has lost 99.9% of its vultures; less than 60,000 remain * Many died after consuming the cattle drug, diclofenac, depriving us of efficient waste managers * They are now bred in captivity, to protect them from …
The leit motif of the Bill is to create guidelines and institutional framework in academic and research institutions. This Bill will give rise to number of patents because now every scientist getting public money would be under an obligation by law to patent what is patentable. It will also increase …
Significant programmatic experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding have accumulated since WHO's recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV were last revised in 2006. In particular, evidence has been reported that antiretroviral (ARV) interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce …
LATELY things have not been going smoothly for Koel Dutta. A homemaker in Kolkata, the 38-year-old has asthma. Doctors have put her on Pediapred—a class of glucocorticoid steroids—for the past one year. Since January, Dutta was getting fractures easily. Once she tripped on the doorstep and fractured her wrist. The …
If tariffs were the big-ticket issue of trade disputes in an earlier decade, intellectual property rights (IPRs) are making for all the drama, standoffs and skulduggery in international negotiations today. Why are IPRs so crucial to the new economic order? To understand this one needs to come to terms with …
AWAY from the conference rooms of climate talks, developed countries have begun arm-twisting developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Sasan, a coal-based project of Reliance Power, almost lost out on funding from a US-based lending agency (See: US bank uses carbon smokescreen). Earlier in the year, power …
THE Union health ministry is pushing for the inclusion of the pentavalent vaccine in the universal immunization programme (UIP) for children. In April, the government tried to convince the Delhi High Court to clear the vaccine by submitting a World Health Organization (WHO) report that said there was no problem …
New Delhi: The nation has developed an indigenous swine flu detection kit, which comes close on the heels of an homegrown swine flu vaccine. As the country reels under a fresh H1N1 swine flu outbreak
The world buzzed with news that an antiretroviral gel can halve the incidence of HIV infection in women. But a quieter buzz could be heard at the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, where the gel results were unveiled.
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has directed pharma biggie GlaxoSmithKline to stop enrolling new subjects worldwide for conducting safety studies of controversial diabetes pill, Rosiglitazone (Avandia) till regulators decide whether the drug will be banned. In India, at least 20 cities including …
Rekha gets irritated easily, especially when told that she needs to gain weight. The 12-year-old is among 31 children in Majnu Ka Tila who have developed tuberculosis in the past few months. The Tibetan refugee colony has 127 patients enrolled at the DOTS centre and, according to conservative estimates, up …
International conference on AIDS in Vienna VIENNA: Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the U.N. announced on Monday at the world AIDS forum, as the former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, defended Barack Obama's funding to fight the disease. The increase meant that 5.2 million people had access …
There is more to combating HIV in the developing world than providing affordable drugs. T. V. Padma looks at the innovative new strategies being employed.
SEVERAL industrialized countries are negotiating a treaty that could deny developing countries access to low-cost medicines, making them dependent on expensive patented drugs. The pact is very likely to go further than the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) trademark- related arrangements by branding any item suspected of violating patents as counterfeit. …
The government of India is drafting a notification according to which drugs manufactured by traditional systems of medicines would have to go through the same process of drug testing and trials as required for allopathic drugs. The guidelines issued in June by the Ministry of Health are to be followed …
Malaria remains the most prevalent vector-borne infectious disease and has the highest rates of fatality. Current antimalarial drug strategies cure malaria or prevent infections but lack a sustained public health impact because they fail to expedite the acquisition of protective immunity.
