Health

Threefold rise in domestic budget for fight against tuberculosis

Domestic resources accounted for 74% of the $525 million that was spent in India last year

Publication Date: 
01/11/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tuberculosis (TB), Budget, Infectious Diseases, WHO, Drugs, Health
Health

Global tuberculosis report 2017

Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%, according to the Global TB Report 2017. Despite these achievements, the latest picture is grim. TB remains the top infectious killer in 2016.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2017
World Health Organization
Tags:
Tuberculosis (TB), Diseases, Health Effects, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India, Global, Drugs
Health

New drug regimen for TB patients

They will be given fixed drug combinations on a daily basis

Publication Date: 
27/10/2017
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Tuberculosis (TB), Infectious Diseases, Drugs, Health Care, Health
Wildlife

Order of the Madras High Court regarding use of drug Diclofenac for human use, 24/10/2017

Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of Laborate Pharmaceutical India Vs Union Of India dated 24/10/2017 regarding use of drug Diclofenac for human use. Madras High Court dismisses the plea of the drug industry about the importance of multi dose packs of diclofenac for treatment of human beings and clearly stated that vultures are universally accepted as Natural Sanitary Workers, absolutely essential for environmental and ecological balance. Therefore, preservation of vulture population is non-negotiable and decline of vulture population needs to be arrested.

Judgement Date: 
24/10/2017
Tags:
Vulture, Drugs, Endangered Species, Animal Diseases, High Court, Drug Industry, Cattle, Livestock, India
Health

Malaria among migrants: Health Dept. found wanting

Delay in diagnosis, patients leave State without treatment

Publication Date: 
16/10/2017
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Malaria, Kozhikode (D), Drugs, Vector Borne Diseases, Health
Health

Rampant antibiotics use affects UTI cure

These are either underused, overused or misused: Study.

Publication Date: 
09/10/2017
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Antibiotics, Health Effects, Infectious Diseases, Drugs, Health
Health

Safety and immunogenicity of rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP Ebola vaccine in adults and children in Lambaréné, Gabon: A phase I randomised trial

The rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP vaccine prevented Ebola virus disease when used at 2 × 107 plaque-forming units (PFU) in a trial in Guinea. This study provides further safety and immunogenicity data.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
06/10/2017
Selidji T. Agnandji, José F. Fernandes, Emmanuel B. Bache & et al
PLoS Medicine
1-26
Tags:
Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Gabon, Africa, Vector Borne Diseases, Drugs, Medical Research
Health

CAG raps State Government for poor health infrastructure

BHUBANESWAR: THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has rapped Odisha Government for failing to develop adequate infrastructure in health and social sectors.As per the Indian Public Health Stand

Publication Date: 
21/09/2017
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa, Health, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Drugs, Pneumonia, Health Effects
Health

Antibacterial agents in clinical development: an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis

A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis, launched by WHO shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

Publication Date: 
20/09/2017
World Health Organization
Tags:
Antibiotics, Tuberculosis (TB), Drugs, Health, India, Global
Health

Trends and characteristics of drug-resistant Tuberculosis in rural Shandong, China

The objective of the study was to describe the secular trends for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR TB) and to identify unique characteristics of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) in rural China.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
19/09/2017
Ning-ning Tao, Xiao-chun He, Xian-xin Zhang & et al
International Society for Infectious Diseases
1-34
Tags:
Tuberculosis, China, Drugs, Health Care

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