HIV drug resistance: brief report 2024
This brief report summarizes recent information on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in the era of integrase-strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) for HIV prevention and treatment. In this report, WHO documents
Drugs
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WHO dengue study: First report in the pipeline
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An interim report of the first-ever dengue seroprevalence collaborative study being carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the state government is in the offing by June.
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Researchers combine drug and vaccine to end malaria menace
Kenyan researchers said on Saturday that they plan to use a combination of new drugs as well as a vaccine in order to end malaria menace in the country. Lucas Otieno, Deputy Director of Clinical Operations
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To save lives, hospital to import anti-TB drug from South Africa
Drug manufacturer recently phased out its Compassionate Use Programme Hinduja Hospital is trying to import Bedaquiline, an anti-tuberculosis drug, from South Africa for two of its patients suffering
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Demand cancer drugs that truly help patients
<p>Drug regulators and trial designs should assess benefits that actually matter to people with cancer, says Ajay Aggarwal.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-018-04154-9/d41586-018-04154-9.pdf"
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Health Ministry proposal to curb substandard drugs, antibiotics overuse in limbo
Last year, two Union ministers and 10 MPs had forwarded objections from a drug traders’ lobby to HealthMin. A proposal of the Union health ministry that envisaged digitisation of the pharmaceutical
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No proposal for new drug policy at present: Govt
There is no definite proposal for a new drug policy before the government at present though some stakeholders have discussed the basic contents that should go into a draft pharma policy, Parliament was
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Antibiotic demand has surged 65% since 2000: Now 24.5 billion prescriptions are written a DAY- driving us closer to resistance that will cause a global public health crisis
Antibiotic prescriptions have shot up by 65 percent overall and by 39 percent per person in 15 years, new research reveals. In the period from 2000 to 2015, 24.5 billion prescriptions for the infection-fighting
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Drug Shortages Cripple Angola’s Health Service
Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health center in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives. Hours from the nearest town in Cunene
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Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015
<p>Antibiotic use more than doubled in India between 2000 and 2015, fuelling antibiotic resistance that is making common infections such as E.coli, strep throat, pneumonia and tuberculosis more difficult to treat, according to this new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)</p>
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In vitro and in silico validation of anti-cobra venom activity and identification of lead molecules in Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa
<p>Venomous snakebite is a global serious health issue and in India high rate of mortality is caused by Naja naja (Indian cobra). To evaluate anti-cobra venom activity and identify lead molecules in Aegle