DCGI, health ministry initiate dialogues with foreign regulators, try to understand global best practices
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are relying on synthetic biology to produce sufficient amounts of a medicine based on an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, to protect over a million children who die each year from malaria. The drug called artemisinin is based on extracts from the Chinese plant Artemesia annua (sweet wormwood), which has been used in China to treat malaria since at least the second century BC.
'I treat my sons the same way you treated me.' 'No scolding or loud words ever, but with kindness and with logic. But when it needed, you were firm and so am I.'
Discovering a way to deal with negative emotions is often the first step toward overcoming emotional eating.
A team of international researchers has found that therapeutic cloning, the same method used to create Dolly the sheep, can be used to treat Parkinson's disease, which robs people of the ability to walk and even eat.
Some of the recovered patients are aged people, including a 93-year old woman and are still in Gandhi Hospital while the rest have been sent to different facilities.
In a tweet, Patanjali Ayurved said, "Moment of pride!! Efforts of scientists at Patanjali to make corona medicine have been successful today. We are pleased to announce the First evidence based medicine for Covid-19 by Patanjali."
To-be moms can enjoy these yummy treats without any guilt.
The minister was attending the wedding ceremony of son of former minister Parameshwar Naik at Hagaribommanahalli in Davanagere.
Our financial system, by any reckoning, is fragile, which is why the RBI is intervening.
A top radiation biologist claimed that the peerless power of Trifala -- a combination of three herbs, Amalaki, Haritaki and Bibhitaki -- held the promise of protecting the body from the attack of dreadful diseases.
Indian challenge ended in the compound mixed pair open section of the archery competition after the duo of Rakesh Kumar and Jyoti Baliyan made a quarterfinal exit in the Paralympic Games on Sunday.
As the pandemic spreads and the urgency for effective treatment of COVID-19 mounts, several countries, including the US, have started relying heavily on HCQ, majorly used in the treatment of malaria and rheumatoid-arthritis.
US-based co-working operator WeWork, Lowe's India, SpiceJet and startups like CureFit stepped in to offer employment to the distressed workers at Jet.
'Gift-giving' - from free dinners and drug samples to promotional merchandise - seems to be driving drugmakers' marketing - a marketing prescription deeply entrenched in the industry. This is a well-oiled racket that sees pharmaceutical (pharma) companies 'gifting' doctors to push their respective drugs under the guise of marketing. But is there a cure in sight to end this unhealthy alliance? The recent controversy following the income-tax raids on Bengaluru-based drugmaker Micro Labs, makers of popular paracetamol brand Dolo-650, has brought this to the fore, again.
'I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president because I feel great. I feel like perfect'
Charpentier, 51, and Doudna, 56, are just the sixth and seventh women to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, according to France 24.
The Airports Authority of India plans to privatise 15 out of 40 non-operational airports across the country on a public-private partnership basis to make them function again."Out of 40 non-operational airports, 15 have the potential to operate and we have planned to give the airports to private developers to operate it for a concession period," said a top AAI official, who did not wish to be identified.
Antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1, derived from horses, prevent mice infected with the virus from dying.
Here are the five things that smart people do on a Friday and over the weekend.
Taking care of an elderly person in the family can be challenging. Here are some tips from Manali Sharma who works at the Aurum Senior and Assisted Living in Gurugram.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma answers your health queries.
In another tweet, the chief minister said that if detected and treated on time, COVID-19 infection can be cured.
A video had gone viral on Thursday showing Rawat extolling the curative powers of the cow at a function in Dehradun.
Thomas Abraham and his wife Mariyamma, 88, both have been fully cured after days of life-and-death battle against the deadly virus which they contracted from their son, daughter-in-law and grandson who returned from Italy last month.
Big Mumbai developers' inventory at Rs 53.4 crore.
New research conducted by scientists at Germany's Center for Complementary Medicine Research suggests that those suffering from frequent migraine headaches get better when treated with acupuncture.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of the agitating unions, is meeting on Sunday to decide on the next course of action, including on the MSP issue and the proposed daily tractor march to Parliament during the upcoming Winter Session, SKM core committee member Darshan Pal said.
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi's younger brother was among 97 COVID patients succumbing to the infection in Bihar on Sunday, health department bulletin said.
The government has declared that night curfew would be enforced in the state from next week to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Get rid of that niggling pain with yoga. Shameem Akthar takes you through some simple asanas.
Researchers in London have discovered a way to stop cancer cells from spreading, which may prevent the spread of the disease in about 90 per cent patients. Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research, a constituent college of the University of London, say that rather than concentrating on stopping the formation on tumours, they focused on singling out the enzyme that allows cancer to spread throughout the body.
Recently, all officers and officials working at the Delhi LG office underwent the COVID-19 test after a junior assistant was found infected.
'With doctors going up against a seemingly invincible enemy, often at immense risk to their lives, the myths reveal an interesting relationship between the men of medicine and the rest of humankind,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Written informed consent of each patient is required before the use of this drug, he said
American's National Institute of Health will study a cancer care protocol developed by a Kolkata-based father-son homeopath duo.
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth urged people to stay home amid coronavirus crisis and asked them to utilise this period to spend time with their close ones.
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