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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Immune virus
HIV bringsscience down on its knees
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Vanquishing the virus
Most researchers are concentrating on genetic engineering to devise an AIDS vaccine, which would be effective against all strains of the human immunodeficiency virus.
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A black shadow over India
If a way to contain AIDS is not found, HIV may infect about five million people in India by the turn of the century.
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Drugs alone do not create health
Spending heavily on medicines does not necessarily result in better health, indicate recent studies.
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Princess arrested
A BHUTANESE princess, Deiky Wang-chuck, was arrested in Taiwan for trying to smuggle 22 Asian rhinoceros horns into the country, in the largest ever seizure of such horns (New Scientist, October 16,
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On the way out
The drug controller of India is considering banning anti- diarrheal drugs for children because they are increasingly replacing oral rehydration solutions -- the first-line treatment for replenishing
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War over alliance
Multinational pharmaceutical companies Hoechst and Gist Brocades (GB) have locked horns, through their Indian representatives Ranbaxy and Max India, over a proposed joint venture with the public
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Dangerous make up
A warning against indiscriminate selling and buying in a new fad: herbal drugs
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Operation Himalayan yew
In response to the threat posed by multinational companies to the Himalayan yew (Taxus baccata), which yields the anti-cancer drug taxol, the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has
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Haste makes waste
A SERIOUS error acknowledged recently by AIDS researchers at USA's prestigious Harvard Medical School is being cited as an example of what can happen when scientists rush into clinical trials