Air sick

Another reason for not giving excess antibiotics to farm animals

Drug pull out

Indian firms temporarily leave AIDS war zone

Murky market plan

Has anti-inflammatory medicine Vioxx been withdrawn to market new drug?

Vulture value

Gujarat halts diclofenac use

Cup that cheers

Pill poppers beware

Indiscriminate antibiotic use has created drug resistance in harmful bacteria

Not all died of poisoning

South Asia

Insulin impulses

Avoid taking decisions when blood sugar levels are unstable

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

When generics turn into Big Pharma

Top generics firms, some from India, are charged with price-fixing and sleazy deals; Sun Pharma has paid up to settle claims  

Drug-resistant infections: The silent pandemic that we must tackle now

As the world reels from the impact of COVID-19, it would be a tragedy not to apply the lessons we are learning to the fight against drug resistance

Acquired shortage: India’s HIV drugs are in short supply, which could have been averted 

This risks undoing India’s hard-won gains against HIV/AIDS and further derails the global progress, which is not on track to meet the goal …

Gene variant in people of African origin helps control HIV, says study

Between 4% and 13% of people of African origin could be carrying a particular variant that decreases the viral load

HIV positive children’s treatment in Africa not on par with adults: UN Report

Only six African countries provided antiretroviral therapy to children living with HIV in 2020, a report by UNAIDS has said

‘High time India, other LMICs developed policy apparatus for COVID-19 drugs manufacturing and supply’

Expensive drug monoclonal antibodies may create inequity similar to vaccine distribution

In poll season, Punjab debates legalising poppy seed and opium farming

Proponents feel the two crops will help farmers, save Punjab’s groundwater and wean its youth from synthetic drugs

US doctors customise drug to treat girl with rare genetic disease

The drug Milasen was designed to treat only Mila Makovec suffering from a form of Batten disease — a rare, fatal and inherited disorder …

Crackdown on LGBT people leading to HIV-AIDS crisis in Indonesia: Report

HIV rate among gay men in Indonesia has increased five-fold from 5% in 2007 to 25% in 2015

New drug combo using pain killers may be effective against cancer

Of the four complexes made from combining ruthenium and commonly used pain killers, two showed remarkable effects in stopping growth of …

TB's hidden links

About 40-70 per cent of tuberculosis patients suffer from mental health disorders. As India has more than one-fourth of global TB cases and deaths,…

Microbes in extreme heat and cold hold lessons about life on Earth, and beyond

Microbes have the ability to survive in extremely hot and cold conditions. This makes them invaluable tools for research: they can teach us how …

Winds of changes

Indian industrialists and scientists want the country's property rights to be "strengthened", but the powerful drugs industry wants to maintain …

Dhaka to give drug policy a free-market dose

Under pressure from transnationals, the Bangladesh government is likely to ease restrictions on producing and importing medicines.

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day