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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Miracle cure?
Is the new Indian anti cancer drug any good?
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Drug resistant HIV
Anti HIV drugs could soon fail
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In AID S of the dying
To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government s health policy will have to undergo a drastic change
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The therapeutic tree
THE latest source that promises new hope for cancer patients is an African tree. A drug derived from the bark of the African bush willow has been found to hamper blood supply to cancer cells.
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Perfecting crystals
When cultivated in gravity free space, crystals have more perfect protien structures that help help in designing better drugs
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Safer paracetamol
THE BRITISH Technology Group (BTG) recently licensed Penn Pharmaceuticals to manufacture a "safer paracetamol," according to a report in New Scientist (Vol 135 No 1836). Paracetamol was considered a
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Helping addicts get through their withdrawal symptoms
The manner in which marijuana and heroin affect the brain can provide useful clues to developing more effective painkillers.
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No money for labs in antibiotics research
Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not consider it profitable to invest in research for new drugs.
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Antibiotics, not antacids, to treat ulcers
Doctors and pharmaceutical companies have been slow to respond to growing evidence that peptic ulcers are better treated with antibiotics, rather than the traditional antacids.
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An aspirin a day keeps cancer away
A US study has found reduced cancer risk among people who take aspirin frequently