Fake medicines are a dangerous threat in Africa: 3 ways to spot them
The most common fakes tend to be the most popular medicines: Painkillers, antibiotics to treat infection, anti-malarials, anti-retrovirals, …
Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Spreading awareness on medicine quality can be a solution for AMR
Medicines must be manufactured according to high standards of quality and efficacy to reduce AMR risk
Lion farming in South Africa: fresh evidence adds weight to fears of link with illegal bone trade
To help prevent legal trade being used as a cover for illegal trade, farms should be required to stop breeding more lions. In addition, proper …
Look back at the decade: Antibiotic resistance
One big question from the second decade of the new millenium: Can we fight antibiotic overuse?
Triphala rich in polyphenolic content: Study
The scientists wanted to test if herbal preparations containing such molecules could be useful
The dark side of 'racial science'
Angela Saini exposes how some scientists even today use race to define intelligence, behaviour, predisposition to diseases and even creativity
New molecule promises to address drug resistance
The new molecule is an antimicrobial peptide, which kills bacteria by breaking down their membranes
How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine
With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional …
National List of Essential Medicines: 34 drugs enlisted in update after 7 years
The latest National List of Essential Medicines features 384 medicines, drops 26 old ones
New hope for treating inflammation-induced anaemia
A traditional herb commonly known as gudduchi or giloy could be useful in treating such anaemia, find Pune scientists
AI throws the patent system into turmoil
Artificial intelligence is overturning the conventional idea of intellectual property rights, especially in drug discovery
Bedaquiline patent win is a half victory
India’s ability to eliminate its huge TB burden by 2025 will be a test of both its patent laws and healthcare policy
Research on fundamental cell process wins Medicine Nobel 2019
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza had described how a cell senses and adapts to the level of oxygen available
COVID-19 shows the world needs physicians who can look beyond medical charts
COVID-19 has placed a spotlight on the field of social medicine. It has done so by showing up inherent injustices in society
Slay those symptoms: How some giloy can help amid COVID-19
Keep a stem of giloy handy while recovering from COVID-19 or any other viral fever
Here is why you should plant babool
The tree can grow well on degraded land, can survive droughts and floods, and has numerous medicinal properties
World AMR Awareness Week: How ethnoveterinary medicines combat antimicrobial resistance
The biggest USP of ethnoveterinary medicines is that they can be prepared at home; simple ingredients of EVMs can work against several …
CITES CoP 2019: Critically endangered saiga antelope not to get highest protection
Instead of being placed in Appendix I of CITES, a voluntary moratorium by saiga range states not to export the antelope’s horn has now been …
Antimicrobial resistance: Use these ethnoveterinary medicines for Lumpy Skin Disease
Healthcare systems for livestock should be accessible, affordable and effective; ethnoveterinary medicine fulfils this criteria
India’s persistently high out-of-pocket health expenditure continues to push people into poverty
High expenditure on health is impoverishing 55 million Indians annually, says WHO
ICMR, IISc to jointly develop hi-tech hub-and-spoke system for improved healthcare
The system will collect and curate data through institutions across the country to facilitate research
Magical mushroom: Scaling up Ganoderma lucidum cultivation will benefit farmers, users
Ganoderma lucidum has over 400 chemical constituents with medicinal properties
Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: How rethinking communication can go a long way
People across demographics cannot be targeted as one group while spreading awareness
Remdisivir shows no benefits on COVID-19 patients in first clinical trial
Lancet paper contradicts Gilead results on drug which claimed improvement in patients
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s work on mRNA vaccines wins Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Such vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented severe disease in many more, allowing societies to open and return to normal conditions