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 …
PB Jayakumar / Mumbai January 11, 2010, 0:21 IST Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis AG has been granted patent protection in India for Nilotinib, a superior version of blood cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate). It has been engaged in a legal battle with the government on the latter
Deal Could Be Aimed At Getting Access To Technology Or Manufacturing Platform Khomba Singh NEW DELHI RANBAXY Laboratories has started discussions to buy a privately held Bangalore-based vaccine company, two persons familiar with the development said. While the identity of the company could not be ascertained one of persons said …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: After a spate of deaths in the state due to swine flu, general physicians have suddenly woken up to the need of prescription of swine flu medicines to their patients suffering from flu. Over the last two weeks the sale of swine flu drugs in …
In a move that may help India combat both P1 and P3 polio viruses, the Union Health Ministry is going to introduce a new bivalent vaccine this month. The first round of the bivalent vaccine will be administered to children in Bihar on January 10. The decision was taken after …
When one of the top 20 pharma giants in the world, Eisai Pharmaceuticals of Japan, inaugurated its global research and development and production facility in Visakhapatnam last month, it was not just another feather in the cap of the city that is being dubbed as the
Public Health & Family Welfare, Medical Education, Biodiversity and Biotechnology Minister Anup Mishra has said that the distribution and availability of medicines would be ensured this year in the Government, medical and gas relief hospitals of the State. Mishra said this would be done under the new Drug Policy. An …
Oseltamivir phosphate (OP; Tamiflu) has been used to treat and prevent H1N1 influenza. OP is primarily excreted in urine as oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), the active form of the drug, and OC may be subsequently released into the environment via sewage treatment plant (STP) wastewater. Ghosh et al. used solid-phase extraction …
Clinical research is an important aspect of universalising healthcare, enabling the development of better drugs, tests, vaccines, devices, surgical procedures and other medical interventions and protocols for their safer and more rational use. However, today it is viewed merely as a business investment with high returns. This view has been …
ICMR Cites Nerve Disorder As Side-Effect New Delhi: India will receive its first batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur by the end of January. But does India at all need a vaccine to combat H1N1? And will these vaccines, that have primarily been tested on foreign shores, …
The fi rst report of the Mashelkar Committee on patent issues was accused of plagiarism and the committee was asked by the government to rexamine its recommendations. The second report of this committee poses a different set of problems. This article argues that the revised recommendations are not warranted by …
Occurrence of antibiotics was investigated in water associated with two hospitals in Ujjain district, India. Samples of hospital associated water were subjected to solid phase extraction combined with high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), to estimate antibiotics in incoming safe water, hospital wastewater and groundwater. The incoming safe water …
In a bid to save endangered vultures, a campaign has been launched in Chitwan to make the district free from the livestock painkiller Diclofenac, the veterinary drug blamed for killing the scavenging birds, state-owned news agency RSS reported Sunday.The move comes at a time when conservationists have been long saying …
DOTS, or directly observed treatment, in which the patient is made to take medication right in front of a doctor or health worker, is recommended by the WHO as the most effective strategy against TB. India boasts of the largest coverage under this free programme, adding one lakh patients to …
India will launch a new drug by next week, drawn from black pepper, which promises to revolutionise tuberculosis treatment by reducing the duration of medication for the disease. The drug
Saubhadro Chatterji & Joe C Mathew / New Delhi December 18, 2009, 0:32 IST Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will unveil a new anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug developed by Indian scientists next week. Manmohan Singh The drug, known to be more effective than existing therapies, has been developed by Indian Institute of …
Despite swine flu claiming over 700 lives across India and the cost of imported raw material to produce Oseltamivir crossing $400 per kg mark (around Rs 19,000), India has no plans to produce the anti-viral through its public sector undertakings. Reason - the government thinks it would be
London: British experts say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths. Researchers at the Cochrane Review, an international nonprofit that reviews health information, looked at previously published papers on …
Aids treatment in India has received a setback with the World Health Organisation (WHO) issuing a recommendation last week to phase out Stavudine, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV. Forty-five per cent patients in the country use Stavudine or d4T due to its low cost and widespread availability, and …
The animal trials for the much-awaited H1N1 vaccine have been completed by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII). The Institute is hopeful of beginning human clinical trials by December 15. The firm, which sent a report on the attenuated intranasal spray tests on animals to the Drug Controller General …
