Average 71 patents per drug!
Innovator companies are seeking hundreds of patents on a single drug to extend monopolies and increase prices
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Here’s a look into the curious case of opium poppy cultivation in India
Unseasonable rains or hailstorms, such as the one in March this year, can be the last nail in the coffin with disastrous consequences for the …
India develops world’s first vaccine exclusively for leprosy
The ‘immunotherapeutic’ vaccine for leprosy harnesses the ability of body’s immune system to combat infection
CDRI Lucknow invites nominations, applications for excellence in drug research awards
The annual awards are for Indian citizens below 45 who have carried out outstanding research in areas with a direct bearing on drug …
Houseflies can spread antibiotic resistant bacteria in poultry farms: Study
Flies can keep the bacteria in their gut for a week and since their flight can last up to 10kms they can act as vectors to disseminate it
For future cancer drugs, scientists find clues from outer space
They are exploring if the knowledge of microgravity can be used to develop novel ways to find new drugs
Why is Centre making Aadhaar compulsory for poor TB patients despite Supreme Court order?
In the past, the Apex Court had asked the Centre to not make Aadhar compulsory for public welfare schemes
The number of new flu viruses is increasing, and could lead to a pandemic
How is it the flu has managed to stay around for so long, and why haven't we beaten it yet?
Latest transmission patterns for drug resistant TB pose a new challenge
To tackle TB a dynamic change in discourse is needed. The focus must be on how to respond to emerging complexities the disease presents
Undetected infiltration
Pharmaceutical drugs that we consume are travelling through our pee and poo and contaminating water sources
Finally, a US revolt on drug price
American legislators are trying to enact new laws to force the pharma industry to explain pricing of specialty drugs
Turning dreams into reality
A cure for influenza and a substance harder than diamond: two of the products conjured up by designer science
Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient
Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug -- Azidothymidine (AZT) -- of its side-effects.
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.
Presidential criticism stings biotech firms
The days ahead are gloomy for the biotechnology industry in the United States, if the present downturn in the market persists.
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 …
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.
Return of the drug
Anti- and pro-lobbies lock their horns over the renewed use of the much maligned drug thalidomide
Bovine benefit
Chromaffin cells derived from the adrenal glands of cows have been made to secrete painkillers that have brought relief to six terminally ill patients
A tradition is revived
Across the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka turns back the pages and rejuvenates its traditional indigenous systems of medicine
No pain
... is a big gain when it comes to medicine. Here, doctors would give anything for an effective, new painkiller
Will plague return?
A plague bacterium that has developed resistance to several antibiotics may pose a serious threat to human health
Silk route to preservation
Protein in fibre can replace expensive ways to store drugs
The therapeutic tree
