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 DELHI truck driver developed recurring headaches which common drugs failed to cure. Doctors at I premier hospital tested his cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) for possible brain irifection. Result: normal. Six weeks later, he came back complaining of unbearable headache. His CSF sample was sent to the National Institute of Communicable …
Known as the country hardest-hit by AIDS, Uganda is slowly gaining all upper hand in its fight against the deadly disease. Recent studies have shown that the spread of AIDS has slowed clown among the country's young adults. The rite of infection among teenagers in the worst-hit parts of the …
A TEAM of researchers from Mumbai's University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) have discovered a potential 'magic bullet' to be used in the war against AIDS. The group of students led by professor V M Kulkarm have developed a drab-looking and colourless substance which works wonders against an HIV enzyme. …
• Indian textile exporters will have no choice but to switch to eco-friendly dyes in view of the German ban on import of textiles using azo dyes. The ban will finally came into effect from April this year, after two postponements in January and June last year. • Bird lovers …
A three-day training-cum- workshop for disseminating information on AIDS control was organised by Disha, an NGC, at the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The aim was to strengthen governmental efforts at arresting the disease and dispelling doubts and correcting half truths about it through its puppet ensemble. …
Horrifying details about the health ministry's negligence and connivance in spreading the Hiv among nearly 2,000 haemophiliacs in the country, have come to light after more than a decade. The revelations came after Naoto Kan, Japan's health and welfare minister and also . an AIDS-issues activist, ordered a probe. Kan …
With the AIDS scourge assuming gigantic proportions in the South Asian countries, senior officials of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ~et at a four-day workshop recently In Kathmandu, Nepal, to devise meaDs to tackle the rampantly spreading disease. The statemenf released at the end of the conference spoke …
An antiviral drug, which was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treating AIDS, has been found to have the potential to treat chronic hepatitis B infection too. Lamivudine, or 3TC, .the drug manufactured by the Glaxo Wellcome group under the brand name Epivir, is reported to …
THE scene could be straight out of a medical sci-fi a baboon is sacrificed and its bone marrow processed; a person terminally ill - an AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) victim who has volunteered to be a human guinea pig - is infused with about a pint of straw-coloured fluid …
Nothing can dampen the spirits of Jeff Getty. Nat the budget cuts and government shutdown In the US, nor even all the snow blizzards lashing parts of the country. He has gone home... Hallelujahl Getty's doctors say it will be a long time before they can say whether the AIDS …
Hitahitam sukhant dukhmayustsya hitahitam Manum ch tachh yatroktmayurved sa uchhyate (Ayurveda is the knowledge that indicates the appropriate and inappropriate, happy or sorrowful conditions of living, what is auspicious or inauspicious for longevity, as well as the measure of life itself) - Charaka Samhita 1.41 AYURVEDA, literally, means 'the science …
What are the results of tests carried out with Immuno QR? Effect of treatment of herbal medicines to study the serological status of 10 HIV patients (arranged by Anand) was carried out by ELISA test at day 0 and thereafter at days 30, 60 and 90, after the initiation of …
THE battle against the dreaded AlDs disease may yet be won. The Food and Drug Administration in the us recently approved a new class of drugs which inhibits the ability of the HIV virus to cause the disease. Manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche Inc of Nutley in New Jersey, the drug …
Around 2,000 doctors from all over the world assembled for the ninth international conference on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, which opened on December 10 at Kampala, the capital of Uganda. AIDS has attained proportions of a national tragedy in Uganda. Educational efforts to fight the disease have yielded few …
RECENTLY, AIDS drug researchers found two reasons to celebrate. Firstly, a new anti-viral drug that could help solve the drug resistance problem posed by HIV was developed. And secondly, the efficacy of a drug that protects monkeys from infection from a related virus called SIV was confirmed (New Scientist, Vol …
A drop of blood, a drop of reagent, a glass slide and 10 seconds is all one needs to detect AIDS. This single step AIDS test has been developed by Delhi University-based bio-chemists helped by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical " Education and Research, Chandigarh (PTI Science Service, October 1-15,1995). …
EVEN the malevolent AIDS virus has its Achilles heel. Australian scientific circles are abuzz with the discovery of a rare strain of the virus among a small group of people in Australia who not developed the killer disease de. having carried the virus for around years. The finding represents a …
THUS much maligned drug thalidomide - flushed from the market in the '60s, after a furore over birth defects associated with it - is back. Although touted as an experimental treatment for fatality inducing conditions associated with cancer, organ transplants, Alus anti other diseases, a strong anti-thalidomide lobby has emerged …
Mandyam Kumar, an expert at the Siddha Medical Research Institute, Bangalore, has developed an injectable medicine - "Solar Drop" - which claims to cure patients with full-blown AIDS cases and other viral infections. An extract bf 13 herbs, the Solar Drop is "an immunomodulator that helps in proper 'functioning of …
GOVERNMENT and municipal hospitals in Bombay are running a high risk for doctors as no testing for HIV is done on patients. Doctors are afraid of conducting such tests because of the fear of contracting the disease themselves. The HIV test is not routinely conducted on all patients in the …
