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
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
Dirty games with the mind
A new study on the connection between marijuana abuse and human cognition throws more light on the long-term effects of drug addiction
No youth-pills
Human growth hormone, the drug hyped for being able to reverse the process of aging is exposed for its inefficiency
Wings of change
Researchers are trying to end malaria at its very root: by genetically modifying mosquitoes that carry the disease
What a mess
Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?
Drugs advisory board says no to direct blood transfusion
It says controlling infections more important than allowing unbanked direct blood transfusion
Supreme Court to examine drug pricing policy
Asks Centre about very high profit margins allowed to manufacturers and dealers under Drug Price Control Order for essential medicines
Costly active pharma ingredients from China create healthcare hurdles in India
Nearly 70% of the country’s APIs are imported from China; the dependence is around 90% for certain life-saving antibiotics
D Srinivasa Reddy takes over as Director CSIR-IICT
Reddy will also hold the additional charge of the post of director of CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow
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?
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,…
'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.