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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Egypt's low price hepatitis C treatment attracting foreign patients
As more than a million Egyptians, Ahmed Nada suffered from hepatitis C before finding the path to healing in a country that has become a global destination for patients seeking treatment. The 31-year-old
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Health care with Chinese characteristics
FANG YUAN gazes around his crowded shop and says happily that business is booming. He has a reliable supplier in Russia and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are queuing up to buy what he sells: antlers.
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Drugs for poultry set off alarm bells
Multi-drug resistant bacteria are moving from poultry enclosures to agricultural fields, says study India’s poultry farms maybe breeding grounds for multi-drug resistant bacteria, says a study conducted
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Buzz as world's biggest drone drug deliveries take off in Tanzania
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania is set to launch the world’s largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of
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‘Any flu Tamiflu’ may not be a good idea, virus can develop resistance, says experts
A study which appeared in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) journal suggests that constant surveillance and data gathering of patients who have consumed Oseltamivir has to be undertaken
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Anti-inflammatory drug 'cuts heart attack risk'
Anti-inflammatory drugs could cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study of 10,000 patients suggests. A trial of the drug canakinumab could represent the biggest breakthrough in treatment since
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Unsupervised primaquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria relapses in southern Papua: A hospital-based cohort study
<p>Primaquine is the only licensed drug for eradicating Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites and, therefore, preventing relapses of vivax malaria. It is a vital component of global malaria elimination efforts.
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Draft Pharmaceutical Policy, 2017
After years of constant denial, it appears that in the draft policy, the government is finally ready to accept that there is a problem with the drugs that are manufactured and sold in India. The Draft
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Antimicrobial resistance: The complex challenge of measurement to inform policy and the public
<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing in a wide range of pathogens, causing morbidity and mortality globally, and threatening modern medicine. While the long-term impact of AMR on human societies
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After 9 deaths, 58 positive cases, swine flu gives Punjab a summer scare
Such is the situation that Patiala’s Rajindra Medical College has exhausted its stock of testing kits and the lab is now waiting for kits from the Centre. In a shift of sorts in the seasonal flu pattern,