AIIA organises public awareness rally on 11th Ayurveda Day

The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), New Delhi, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, organised an “Ayurveda Public Awareness Rally” today to mark the…

UKHSA and University of Oxford scientists uncover genetic changes in the bacteria causing severe Kent meningococcal disease outbreak

Scientists from UKHSA, the University of Oxford and a collaboration of academic institutions have used bacterial genome sequencing to understand why the meningococcal disease outbreak in Kent earlier this year…

‘Broad daylight dacoity’, says Supreme Court on overpricing of essential cancer drugs

‘It is very surprising that the authorities who are supposed to take action on this are silent,’ says Bench Terming it a “broad daylight dacoity” against patients, the Supreme Court…

CDSCO finds one spurious drug sample in Delhi, 220 NSQs in Aug surveillance

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) found one spurious and 220 not of standard quality (NSQ) drug samples from a batch tested randomly as part of the August drug…

FSDA cancels 16 pharmacy licences, suspends 8, including Pfizer depot

The action follows the department’s investigation into a large-scale unlicenced drug repacking and relabelling racket uncovered at a farmhouse in Bengaluru South district’s Bidadi on August 18. The Karnataka Food…

WHO launches new primary health care course to strengthen health systems globally

Health is a human right – yet not everyone can access the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. Primary health care (PHC) provides…

Ayurveda needs stronger evidence, safety monitoring for market adoption, says CCRAS

Bengaluru: The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) has called for stronger scientific evidence, safety monitoring and translation of research into market-ready technologies to improve the credibility and…

Yashoda Medicity Successfully Performs High-Risk Kidney Transplant in 28-Year- Old Woman

The Team Meticulously averted the Risk of Thrombosis, Husband was Donor Delhi/NCR : Doctors at Yashoda Medicity have successfully performed a high-risk kidney transplant in a 28-year-old woman with Antiphospholipid…

Avacta delivers two clinical stage peptide-drug conjugates to target delivery of toxic payloads into the tumour microenvironment

Avacta, a UK-based clinical stage biotech, is differentiated clinical-stage oncology specialist, increasingly defined by continuing progress with its second-generation pre|CISION tumour-activated Peptide Drug Conjugate (PDC) platform. The lead Gen Two…

US FDA approves first gene therapy for paediatric patients with Sanfilippo syndrome type A

The US Food and Drug Administration approved Fayuvi (rebisufligene etisparvovec-hopf), the first treatment for paediatric patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPS IIIA), also known as Sanfilippo syndrome type A, MPS…