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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The revolutionary who transformed health care
ZAFRULLAH Chowdhury draws inspiration as much from Hippocrates as from Mao Zedong. To the first, he owes his medical ideals and to the second, his taking up a rifle to fight in Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971. <br><br> Bangladesh owes a lot to Ch
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Tokyo changes prescription to cut drug bill
The Japanese government is trying to keep the people from consuming too many medicines, in order to cut down its expenditure on health care.
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Indian AIDS research takes big step forward
With the expertise for HIV culture now available in the country, scientists will be better equipped to tackle AIDS.
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Opium dreams lull most youth in UP district
Opium and its derivatives hold almost complete sway over the lives of most of the youth of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, where the Union government's opium factory is also located.
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BST side effects denied
Eminent immunologist G p Talwar , firing the latest salvo in the bovine somatotropin (BST) controversy, asserts there are no harmful side-effects to the artificial growth hormone whose use
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Targeting the Third World's-Yulnerability
THE DUNKEL draft on the renegotiated GATT is finally becoming a public concern in India and farmers are taking the issue to the streets. Several industrial sectors, too, have expressed concern
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Heart patients suffer massive price hikes
Doctors and manufacturers seem unperturbed by the ever increasing price of Acetrome, a drug for heart valve transplant patients.
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Importing cattle growth hormone hits snags
A growth hormone that the National Dairy Development Board seeks to import because it can increase milk yield by as much as 30 per cent, has run into trouble. The Indian Council for Agricultural Research, emulating the European Commission, insists it must
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Genetic theft by Kew botanists
An ongoing debate in the UK questions the ethics behind the acquisition by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of acquiring tropical plants through dubious means and using them to manufacture life saving drugs, without any of the financial benefits reaching
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Steroid fix
THE SUPREME Court has exempted the sale of steroid-antihistamine drug combinations for treatment of asthma from a ban until the next hearing in August. In 1981, the Drug Technical Advisory Board had