Drug firm Strides Shasun today said it has received pre-qualification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for its rectal artesunate product for the pre-referral management of severe malaria. The
It's no less than a feather in the cap of India's health sector. In a major development, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday launched the National Health Resource Repository
South Africa’s Department of Health on Monday became the first in the world to announce a mass roll-out of a more tolerable drug to fight multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Injectables currently
In India, deaths due to AIDS have been reduced by nearly 55 per cent over the last decade and new HIV infections have been reduced by 66 per cent since 2000. India has said that achieving global targets
About 55 million Indians were pushed into poverty in a single year because of having to fund their own healthcare and 38 million of them fell below the poverty line due to spending on medicines alone,
The most widely used antimalarial therapy may not fully treat some children and pregnant women, according to a new study. These patients' bloodstreams contained lower concentrations of one active ingredient
Traces of 29 pharmaceutical drugs have been found in rivers in York. The compounds included antidepressants, antibiotics and medicines to treat epilepsy and diabetes. The York University team which
PUNE: Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have confirmed the efficacy of Ribavirin in reducing the viral load in people infected with Nipah virus, which has claimed at least 16 lives
Antibiotic supply chains are on the brink of collapse, cautions The Netherlands-based Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF), as the world grapples with the peculiar problem of ‘excess and access’ when it
JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it is awaiting formal approval from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to send in unlicensed Ebola medication to help rein in an outbreak of
