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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73% doctors against prescription of generic drugs: survey
Express concerns over the quality of generic drugs The Centre’s move towards a legal framework to make doctors prescribe generic drugs and the subsequent notice by the Medical Council of India enforcing
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73% of docs oppose push for generic drugs: Study
Voice Concerns Over Quality, Qualification Of Chemists Soon after the Prime Minister's push for a law mandating doctors to prescribe medicines with their generic names instead of brands, 73% doctors surveyed
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Hope brightens for cancer patients as WHO launches pilot scheme for cheaper medicines
The horizon appears brighter for cancer patients in low and middle-income countries such as Nigeria as the World Health Organization launches a pilot scheme that hopes to make some of the most expensive
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Nigeria: Severe Bleeding Drug Could Save Lives of Mothers in Nigeria- Study
An inexpensive and widely available drug could save the lives of one in three mothers who would otherwise bleed to death after childbirth, a study published in The Lancet has revealed. According to
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Plant therapy could cure drug-resistant malaria: Study
In a first, a malaria therapy made from the dried leaves of an Asian plant has successfully cured 18 critically ill patients, scientists say . The findings may help fight the growing problem of drug-resistant
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Is this end of malaria? UCT drug discovery could eradicate Africa's mass killer
A new drug candidate “has tremendous potential to cure and protect against malaria in a single dose”‚ said a statement from the Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) at UCT. Professor Kelly Chibale‚
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Cheap blood drug could prevent thousands of maternal deaths in developing world
A cheap and widely available drug could save the lives of one in three of the 100,000 new mothers who bleed to death after childbirth every year, mostly in poorer countries, according to the first study
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Chalcone-based aryloxypropanolamine as a potential antidiabetic and antidyslipidaemic agent
<p>The hybrid congener 3 derived from hydroxychalcone and pharmacophore oxypropanolamine for adrenergic receptor, along with its enantiomers 9a and 9b were selected from a series of compounds for detailed
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A new neglected crop: cannabis
To many, cannabis is a recreational drug; to some, it is a medicine. Now, it is increasingly seen as a crop, to be grown in quantity and engineered for better traits—not just pharmacological effects, but
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Global hepatitis report, 2017
<p>This new WHO report reveals that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection</p>