Health

Addressing poverty in India’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme: are we failing to harness the opportunities?

The bi-directional relationship between poverty and tuberculosis (TB) is well established. Poverty aggravates material disadvantage, social exclusion, discrimination in participation across a wide range of socio-economic and behavioural activities along with undernutrition, overcrowding, lack of access to healthcare and other social determinants of health.

Publication Date: 
25/07/2019
Kumaravel Ilangovan, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja
Current Science
117
2
182-185
Tags:
Tuberculosis, India, Health Care, Poverty, Health Policy, Drugs, Health For All
Health

Govt bans use of antibiotic Colistin in animal feed, poultry, aqua farms

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Colistin is a “reserve” antibiotic, which means it is supposed to be considered a “last-resort” option in treatment and used only in the most sever

Publication Date: 
22/07/2019
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Antibiotics, WHO, Antimicrobial Resistance, Poultry, Drugs, Health
Health

Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory

These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks

Publication Date: 
22/07/2019
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Drugs, Health Care, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Health
Health

Factors that get in the way of appropriate use of antimicrobial medicines in humans

In light of established principles and strategies for appropriate use of antimicrobial medicines, this paper examines studies on antimicrobial use trends across several countries in the Asia and Pacific regions.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2019
Beverley Snell
Third World Network
Tags:
Antibiotics, Drugs, Health Effects, India, Asia
Health

The global threat of antimicrobial resistance and the challenges and needs of Developing Countries

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – in which a microorganism (such as a bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite) becomes resistant to an antimicrobial drug used to treat infections caused by it – is possibly the most serious public health threat of our time.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2019
Martin Khor
Third World Network
Tags:
Antibiotics, Micro Organisms, Drugs, Health, Developing Countries, India
Health

Gilead's key drug used in HIV-related infection out of reach in developing countries'

MUMBAI: Pharma major Gilead Sciences has failed to deliver on promises to make an important drug available to patients suffering from a life-threatening HIV-related infection in certain developing

Publication Date: 
28/06/2019
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
AIDS, Drugs, WHO, Health Care, Health Effects, Health
Health

Drugs of 18 pharma firms found substandard since 2018

The Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI), which implements the Centre’s flagship affordable medicine scheme PMBJP, has found 25 batches of drugs of 18 pharmaceutical companies to be of substandard

Publication Date: 
17/06/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Drugs, India, Drug Industry
Health

Association of maternal folate intake during pregnancy with infant asthma risk

Several studies assessed the association of maternal folate intake with infant asthma risk, but the fndings are controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to clarify the association between maternal folate intake and infant asthma risk.

Publication Date: 
06/06/2019
Weijian Li, Bo Xu, Yuepeng Cao & et al
Scientific Reports
9
8347
1-8
Tags:
Maternal Health, Child Health, Nutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Drugs, Health Effects
Health

Development of antiseptic adaptation and cross-adapatation in selected oral pathogens in vitro

There is evidence that pathogenic bacteria can adapt to antiseptics upon repeated exposure. More alarming is the concomitant increase in antibiotic resistance that has been described for some pathogens. Unfortunately, efects of adaptation and cross-adaptation are hardly known for oral pathogens, which are very frequently exposed to antiseptics.

Publication Date: 
06/06/2019
Tim Verspecht, Esteban Rodriguez Herrero, Ladan Khodaparast & et al
Scientific Reports
9
8326
1-13
Tags:
Oral Health, Micro Organisms, Drugs, Research
Health

Pune health dept floats proposal for independent TB control cell

A status check by the TB control unit of the PMC showed that out of 710 private hospitals/ nursing homes, 24 were reporting TB cases while six laboratories out of 406 were sending the information.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2019
Indian Express (Pune)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Tuberculosis (TB), Infectious Diseases, Drugs, Health

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