Indian pharmaceutical Bharat Biotech’s typhoid vaccine, Typbar-TCV has been marked as a success by a study conducted in Oxford University. Foremost amongst the findings is that the Typbar-TCV vaccine is safe to use in children aged under two. This is of huge significance as current widely used vi-ps typhoid vaccine cannot be used in children …
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WaterAid claims 732 million Indians lack access to toilets. The government, however, dismisses the findings as ‘factually incorrect.’ Is basic sanitation lacking in India? The State of the World’s Toilets Report, 2017 says India has the most people in the world without access to ‘at least basic sanitation.’ The reports claims that 40 percent of …
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Physician burnout may be driving Indian doctors away in droves. Chronic understaffing in Indian hospitals and healthcare institutions often leads to doctors working long hours. These long hours can result in doctors underperforming due to fatigue. It may lead to more errors occurring. In an occupation in which lives are on the line, errors due …
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The US seems intent on stopping the Modi administration extending price caps on medical device. The US has outright requested the Indian government to not extend the caps said a US trade official in discussions with Reuters. There has also been a request that, should companies based in the US no longer wish to provide …
Rollout of the Jiyo Parsi (Live Parsi) programme continues in India – and continues to attract controversy. The programme aims to revitalise the falling Parsi population in India. Parsis are a religious minority in India, descended from Zoroastrians who originally settled in India between the eighth and tenth centuries to escape persecution in their native …
The Indian government’s decision to cap the price mark ups imposed on cardiac stents was feared by some for its potential to cause foreign companies to simply stop marketing their stents in India. These fears appear to have come to fruition as Abbott Healthcare have recently sent requests to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) …
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The relationship between India and the US has “never been stronger”, as both countries pledge to work together on health. A second India-US health dialogue in September concluded with a renewed bilateral commitment from both countries to collaborate against issues of mutual concern. “Working together, we can tackle problems relevant to both our nations, such …
India is host to huge numbers of tropical diseases, predispositions to genetic disease, as well as many rare conditions that as of yet remain largely unstudied. With endless reports of outbreaks of infectious disease as well as fears of vector borne conditions such as the Zika virus arriving in the country it is understandable to …
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Egyptian national Eman Abd El Aty, former world’s heaviest woman, passed away at a hospital in Abu Dhabi on Monday, September 25, shortly following her 37th birthday on September 9. Before her time at the Abu Dhabi hospital in the United Arab Emirates, Abd El Aty – an Egyptian national – had undergone extensive weight …
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Dr Asima Chatterjee, the first Indian woman to receive a doctorate of science from an Indian University and a major contributor in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine has been honoured on the 100th anniversary of her birth by a google doodle (the image on the google homepage). Dr Chatterjee was born on September …
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