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 …
NEW DELHI: Doctors at AIIMS have introduced a new technology for treating cancers affecting the abdominal lining, for example colon cancer or colorectal cancer. It involves administering heated chemotherapy drugs directly into the abdomen during surgery. Usually, chemotherapy drugs are infused into the veins post-surgery to destroy cancer cells. With …
Millions of people, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, lack access to effective pharmaceuticals, often because they are unaffordable. The 2001 Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement and Public Health. The declaration recognized the …
Malawi has launched a new generation of typhoid vaccines making it the first country in Africa using the vaccines to fight typhoid infections in children. Four-year-old Golden Kondowe was the first child to receive the vaccine, on Wednesday (January 21) in Blantyre’s Ndirande Township. The settlement has registered at least …
The existing treatment regime against tuberculosis is not adequate, and novel therapeutic interventions are required to target Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis. We report Pranlukast (PRK) as a novel allosteric inhibitor of Mtb's arginine biosynthetic enzyme, Ornithine acetyltransferase (MtArgJ). PRK treatment remarkably abates the survival of free as well as macrophage‐internalized …
Scientists have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets. The researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to use this knowledge to develop new antimalarial drugs - a critical step in the battle against drug-resistant malaria. …
NEW DELHI: An analysis of bills from four reputed private hospitals in Delhi and NCR by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has revealed that they are making profits of up to 1,737% on drugs, consumables and diagnostics and that these three accounts for about 46% of a patient’s bill. …
Experts seek action against entity distributing drug in schools. Hyderabad: A private organisation, Telangana Public Health Council, is conducting dengue fever awareness campaign in city schools in Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medak areas and giving preventive ‘pyrogenium’ to students. But medical authorities cautioned against this and said it was not a …
Kenya has formed a task force to develop regulatory framework toward the adoption of alternative medicine in the mainstream medical sector, a government official said on Wednesday. Sicily Kariuki, Cabinet Secretary for Health said the health sector is confronted with emergency and reemerging health challenges that require a solution through …
Multinational companies continue to produce and sell unregulated antibiotics in India, worsening the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the country and impeding efforts to fight drug resistance globally, a UK study said. The report, to be made public on Monday by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and Newcastle …
A research study claims that Indians lack access to essential medicines despite the government approving thousands of drugs to ensure their wider availability. The study has been jointly conducted by researchers at the Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, Lakshya, a society for public health education and research based in …
Meerut: In an attempt to achieve its goal of eliminating tuberculosis, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech on Thursday allocated Rs 600 crore for nutritional support to TB patients in India, a measure that was given a thumbs up by health experts in UP. Under this scheme, …
PUNE: The government has decided to rope in private chemists to strengthen its reporting system for tuberculosis (TB) cases. "This is another way of tracing missing cases of TB. Private doctors are already doing this. By involving chemists, the Union government aims to strengthen this reporting system further. We have …
The Hindu and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism unravel how the use of a last-hope antibiotic like colistin is leading to worldwide drug resistance On a farm in Ranga Reddy district near Hyderabad, a clutch of chicks has just been delivered. Some 5,000 birds peck at one another, loitering around …
Durban - Bringing home a healthy baby should be a joyous occasion, but recently it has become stressful for mothers who have left hospital without their newborns getting the all-important Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects the child from severe types of Tuberculosis (TB). One of these was a 19-year-old …
WHO’s first release of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance reveals high levels of resistance to a number of serious bacterial infections in both high- and low-income countries. WHO’s new Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) reveals widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance among 500 000 people with suspected bacterial infections across 22 …
Nagpur: In the wake of the high-grade fever and cough affecting a very large number of children in the city, senior paediatrician Dr Satish Deopujari has given a call to every counterpart not to prescribe any cough syrup to any child at all. He claims that cough syrups have no …
KOLKATA: The persistent early morning fog — innocuous though it may seem — has left a trail of illnesses in Kolkata, including a drug-resistant cough that has been affecting children. Ever since pockets of the city started getting shrouded in a haze from last week, cases of severe respiratory distress, …
The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, has successfully researched and developed six traditional herbal products for the treatment of Ebola, malaria and other diseases. This was disclosed in a press statement signed by the Special Assistant, Communication and Strategy to the Minister of Health, Kazeem Akintunde, on …
THE National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved two applications for HIV vaccine trials and malaria control sought by the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and Macha Research Trust, respectively. The CIDRZ permit seeks to conduct research trials on the safety and immune-genicity of HVTN 120/ALVAC in Lusaka …
The study conducted on mice and on tissue cultures suggest that giving Vitamin C -- a powerful antioxidant that reduces oxidative stress to the body and also lowers cancer risk -- with TB drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen. For people …
