Can resveratrol-copper be used to prevent metastasis without trials?
A new research challenges the dogma that toxicity caused by chemotherapy is due to the direct damaging effect of drugs
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Day: May 4, 2025
76% of TB patients received payment for nutritional support
Under the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana programme, ₹500 per month is credited into the account of a person with TB for
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Nearly 50% of pregnancies in India are high-risk
Prevalence of high-risk pregnancies was highest in Meghalaya (67.8%), Manipur (66.7%), Mizoram (62.5%) and Telangana (60.3%), while lowest in Sikkim
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Serum’s HPV vaccine non-inferior to Gardasil
A phase-2/3 trial of Serum Institute of India’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervavac conducted at 12 tertiary care hospitals across
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India-made typhoid vaccine efficacy lasts for four years
The efficacy of the conjugated typhoid vaccine at the end of 4.3 years of median follow-up was 70·6% for children
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Study finds minimal radioactive discharges from Indian nuclear plants
While samples were collected and measured for maximum radius of 30 km of each nuclear plant, the concentrations of fission
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With pooled procurement, cancer drugs cost 82% less in India
In 1995, Tamil Nadu pioneered the centralised procurement and distribution of drugs and medicines to government hospitals across the State.
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India achieved record TB notification in 2023
In 2022, India had notified 24,22,121 TB cases, which the India TB report 2023 remarked as a “milestone year for
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Missing TB cases in the private sector
India made notification of TB patients mandatory in 2012 to address the problem of delayed diagnosis, suboptimal quality of care,
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Should India study wastewater to track malaria, dengue?
Choosing priority pathogens for wastewater surveillance should be based not just on feasibility of the detection but also on the
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Staying alert: On the rapidly increasing spread of the JN.1 variant
The rapidly increasing spread of the JN.1 variant across the globe has led to the prevalence of this variant, a descendent of
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Gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia greenlighted
Less than a month after the U.K. drug regulator approved Casgevy, the gene therapy to treat people above 12 with
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Compensation to participants in human challenge studies should not incentivise risk-taking
ICMR’s consensus policy statement on human challenge studies insists that payment should take into account the loss of wages, incidental
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