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 …
A team of the Government of India, led by Health Secretary Sujata Rao, monitored the progress work at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, for the upcoming infrastructure to manufacture DPT vaccine according to the norms prescribed by World Health Organsiation (WHO). Rao was at CRI on Saturday to review the …
THE government plans to track each medicine exported out of the country using new technologies to prevent drugs from being duplicated and protect local exporters from allegations of supplying counterfeit drugs. The commerce ministry has asked Pharmexcil, a body of Indian drug exporters set up by the commerce & industry …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Health Department has started a threeday polio eradication campaign in the Capital city by way of mass administration of diethyl carbomazine (DEC) drug among the people under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. The campaign was launched by Health Minister Prasanna Acharya by administering the dose along with albendazole …
Teena Thacker Following a recent study by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), stating that anti-diabetic drug Rosiglitazone may be associated with an increased risk of life-threatening diseases, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday put on hold the clinical trails of the drug going on at …
Indian Company To Become Pure Generics Drugmaker; To Retain Research Activity For Anti-Malarial Drug RANBAXY Laboratories has transferred its research division for new drugs to Japan
Anecdotal information and case reports suggest that intravenously administered vitamin C is used by Complementary and Alternate Medicine (CAM) practitioners. The scale of such use in the U.S. and associated side effects are unknown.
An empirical study of the impact of patenting and licensing on regional manufacturing of human papilloma virus vaccines to help improve vaccine affordability and access.
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN Mumbai: Long-suffering diabetics can find daily insulin jabs painful and cumbersome, so a new, once-a-week shot may soon revolutionize treatment for thousands suffering from the dreaded disease. Researchers have found that a long-acting medication, exenatide, if injected once a week, improves blood sugar control and induces …
The story of how pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) in the recent swine flu scare and the saga of the undeclared conflicts of interests of members of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts has set off alarm bells around the world. …
OPERATION Smallpox Zero was launched in India in 1975. Around this time, a WHO official has been quoted saying he would “eat a tyre off a jeep” if smallpox was eradicated in India. D A Henderson, the programme’s director, is said to have sent him a jeep tyre. Smallpox was …
BERHAMPUR: In a bid to provide health service at doorsteps, measures have been initiated to provide telemedicine service in 10 districts. The service is being provided at MKCG Medical for last six years, but it was confined only to doctors who are using it to consult experts in the country …
The largest recorded outbreak of a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), detected in Nigeria, provides a unique opportunity to analyze the pathogenicity of the virus, the clinical severity of the disease, and the effectiveness of control measures for cVDPVs as compared with wild-type poliovirus (WPV).
Minutes of the meeting held on 24th June 2010 at Export Inspection Council of India to discuss the future course of action on account of non approval of honey RMP by EC.
A NEW technology that helps consumers and retailers identify food and medicine contamination early in the supply chain could soon grace your neighbourhood retailer. The Indian arm of the Brussels-based firm GS1
In 2009, WHO brought together 24 experts to assess schemes and innovative proposals that could encourage much-needed research and development into drugs for neglected diseases. The final report by the Expert Working Group (EWG) was due to be rubber-stamped at the 63rd World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from …
An anti-cancer drug extracted from cow urine and developed by an affiliate of the RSS has got a third US patent for its anti-genotoxicity properties. The same extract, developed by RSS backed Go Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra, had earlier got the US patent as a bio- enhancer with antibiotics and anti-cancer …
