COVID-19: How safe are antiviral drugs for environment?

Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, for example, pose serious chronic threat to the aquatic environment

Software outsmarts drug research

Now, a programme can bypass patented drug pathways and create synthetically-produced medicines

Gut bacteria are a reservoir of drug resistance genes: study

Friendly gut bacteria from individuals who had not consumed antibiotics for past 6 months harbored resistance against multiple antimicrobials,…

Head out

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority's efforts to reign in the private healthcare sector have been scuttled once again. Who is to be blamed?

'Pharmacy of the world' is in peril

In the past decade, India’s import of Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients and advanced intermediates used to manufacture formulations has …

Power for the future

The Institute of Plasma Research in Gujarat is working to make power generation from nuclear fusion a reality.

Molecules made to order

Restructuring molecules for specific purposes -- be it symmetry of design or to develop medicinal drugs -- has come of age in India.

Speeding up in the fast lane

India's largest particle accelerator installed in Delhi is a boon for scientists studying the behaviour of particles at high speeds.

A ray of hope for leprosy patients

Two groups of Indian scientists have developed anti-leprosy vaccines that they claim are also effective in helping victims recover.

US drug firms put Third World lives at risk

Inadequate information on the labels of US drug products sold in the Third World have put many lives at risk, concludes a US government study

Righting the target

Clearer understanding of an enzyme's role could lead to pain killers with less acute side-effects

Taking a short cut

A new method of drug development which expedites the lengthy process of scanning thousands of possible combinations, could lower drug prices …

Super aspirin makes a debut

For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin

Outsourcing drug trials

The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the …

Biography of malignancy

Book>> The emperor of all maladies • by Siddhartha Mukherjee • Scribner • US $15

New drug formulations to fight respiratory illnesses, superbugs

The drugs are much more effective than presently available drugs because of which patients can be prescribed smaller doses; used interchangeably, …

Parliament passes bill that eases rules on narcotics used in palliative care

Experts say pain management in the country will change drastically for the better once the bill is enacted

COVID-19: Centre brings package to boost bulk drugs

Indian pharma industry is critically dependent on imported raw material 

Kerala comes up with Operation AMRITH to tackle AMR

Operation Amrith is aimed at conducting surprise raids in retail medical shops for detecting OTC sale of antibiotics

Countries promise commitment towards implementation of Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance

India outlines progress but a lot more needs to be achieved for comprehensive outcomes

US scientists develop vaccine that protects chickens from bird flu

Officials are currently testing the vaccine on turkeys

Drug booster

Anti-fungal medicine can make malaria drugs deadlier

Cancer research goes 3D

3D cell cultures may help understand the disease better

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WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?