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 …
London: Studies of patients in western Cambodia suggest that malaria could be developing resistance to the most effective type of drug, putting millions of lives at risk. Scientists say tests indicate that treatments based on artemisinin are becoming less effective at combating the disease. Currently, artemisinin treatments are the most …
WHO confirms 11,168 cases of influenza A/H1N1 infection. As diseases break from animal farms, there is greater awareness and emphasis being laid on preventive hygiene. Animal bio-security products are increasingly finding their place in the local market, as diseases are seen jumping species from animals to humans, be it avian …
The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak.
A major component of the bird flu drug, it is in short supply one way to prepare for the bird flu epidemic is to store large quantities of the drug Tamiflu. The drug blocks the enzyme responsible for helping the virus break the host cell membrane to get out, and …
May 11: The National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on Monday confirmed what the city had feared: That the outbreak of disease in some areas is cholera. NICED said the cholera outbreak was due to water contaminated with sewage. NICED said the deaths of 12 persons could have been …
The flu outbreak may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths than feared, but health officials now fear that a more virulent version will return to kill millions.
In the spring of 1918, North Americans were complaining about an unseasonable flu that was sweeping through several cities. They and the rest of the world were still blissfully unaware of what was in store for later that year: a pandemic that would kill 50 million people, or by some …
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week remained on the verge of declaring a pandemic of the H1N1 swine-associated flu virus. Public-health bodies and scientists have made progress in starting to understand the outbreak, but major questions remain about how severe the disease will get.
K. Srinath Reddy Rational combinations of proven life-saving drugs have a role in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. But there is no acceptable substitute for creating social conditions that stimulate, support, and sustain healthy living habits across the lifespan. Considerable media interest has recently been evinced in the use …
New Delhi: The government may have banned the distribution of Tamiflu and Relenza, two options available to battle the H1N1 influenza (or swine flu), but chemists say they are running out of stock despite selling Tamiflu at Rs 2,000 for 10 tablets. The enterprising chemist who arranged the drug for …
New Rules To Ensure 40-70% Cheaper Patented Medicines Reach Public System THE government is laying ground rules for negotiating drug prices with multinational companies to ensure that costly patented drugs are provided at 40-70% lower prices through the public health system, compared with those prevailing in the private health care …
Mumbai: The Indian clinical research industry has grown from Rs20crore to Rs1,500crore in the last three years. In India, the sector has not seen any near-term impact of the economic downturn as large pharma companies continue to send work to India, to be conducted at 1/5th of the US cost. …
May be the first new chemical entity developed and marketed by an Indian company. Malvinder singhSix years after the Geneva-based, not-for-profit organisation, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), made Ranbaxy its drug development partner, the latter today announced the start of final-stage clinical trials for a new anti-malaria drug. Ranbaxy expects …
A simple idea can change the world. The polypill is a case in point. For most heart patients, popping piles of pills is a depressing daily reality: knock back blood-thinners to put off clots, toss down statins to lower cholesterol, swallow a fistful of betablockers, diuretics and ACE inhibitors to …
LARGE PARTS OF MEXICO REMAIN SHUT AS TRAVEL SUFFERS AS a new flu strain spreads around the world, many of the largest US companies have halted business travel to Mexico and are increasing efforts to keep workplaces free of germs, but measures remain low-key. Companies are dusting off contingency plans …
Oseltamivir or Tamiflu, the wonder drug that cures avian influenza as well as the new H1N1 flu, would be distributed in India only through the government machinery as experts have warned that its indiscriminate use can result in the virus developing resistance to the medicine. Briefing reporters here today, Ministry …
