New Anti-Tuberculosis Drug – Pretomanid Keeping the prices of the new drug low is essential for increased treatment uptake The new anti-tuberculosis drug pretomanid recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be a game changer for …
National Essential Diagnostics List ICMR says the current system can manage only few notified devices India has got its first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) finalised by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) which aims to bridge the current …
No harmful chemicals in PET bottles PET bottles are safe, a comprehensive evaluation by the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore has determined The CFRTI analysis, commissioned by an industry body, concluded that antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, …
Researchers at the IIT Hyderabad have been able to achieve sustained release of the drug (Amphotericin B) for up to 10 days, which can be used for treating kala-azar. This is move towards oral administration of kala-azar drug, which currently …
The recommendation of an inter-ministerial committee that India should ban all private cryptocurrencies, that is, Bitcoin and others like it, hardly comes as a surprise. Indian policymakers and administrators have time and again made clear their distaste for them, their …
Reorganisation of the Army Headquarters (AHQ) is expected to formally begin by the month – end. Government has already given in principle approval. About: The AHQ restructuring is the first of the four measures being undertaken as part of the …
Two adaptor proteins act like a clutch, help protein condensates get into the correct slot A unique summer institute held at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in the U.S. (during 2013-2018) helped unlock a few mysteries of the immune …
India’s dream of becoming a $5-trillion economy by 2024 is now in the open with a ‘blue sky’ vision envisaged in the Economic Survey this year. The document lays down a clear strategy to augment the growth of key sectors by shifting …
The health emergency declared by the WHO can counter the risk of a global spread After holding itself back on three occasions, the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public …
Congested streets and polluted air are common experiences in India’s metropolises, although the average Indian contributes only minuscule amounts of transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to global climate change. Delhi tops the charts and emissions are more than twice as high …
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