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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'For TB, one prescription does not fit all patients'
MUMBAI: When it is tuberculosis, one prescription doesn't fit all patients. Government-run programmes offer the same medicines to all patients with drug-resistant TB, but an intervention by Hinduja Hospital,
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2 new drugs in combo found to help sickest of TB patients
MUMBAI: Rafiq, a shoe salesman from Govandi, is one of 4,000-odd TB patients in Mumbai with the worrisome drugresistant form of the disease. But what makes the 26-year-old special is that he is among a
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Doctors and chemists can be jailed if they don’t report TB
Clinical establishments as defined in the Clinical Establishment Act, 2010, include a wide range of medical establishments, hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, diagnostic services, including those operated
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Cabinet approves India-Iran MoU on health
The Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Iran on cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine. The MoU was signed on February 17
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Karnataka receives 120 courses of life-saving Tuberculosis drugs
BENGALURU: Even as Tuberculosis (TB) activists are protesting for access to life-saving drugs Bedaquiline and Delaminid, in the national capital, in the backdrop of the End-TB Summit in Delhi to be held
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Health bodies push for compulsory licence for two drugs on MDR-TB
Survivors of drug-resistant tuberculosis, health organisations and the TB community have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow issuance of compulsory licence for two of the essential drugs
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Doctors write to PM Narendra Modi for wider access of TB meds
A group of doctors have written a letter to PM Modi demanding that the Centre exercise its right of ‘Compulsory Licensing’ (CL) for Bedaquiline and Delaminid, which treat drug-resistant forms of the deadly
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WHO launches plan for cheaper TB drugs
Invites proposals from the pharma industry to produce affordable medicines The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, invited pharmaceutical companies around the world to submit proposals to manufacture
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Indian scientists find asthma drug useful in TB as well
In their search for new drugs against tuberculosis which is increasingly becoming resistant to presently available drugs, researchers are exploring all options. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science
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AIIMS develops new drug delivery system for cancer
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