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Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

WHO supported Solidarity trial finds remdesivir ineffective but WHO prequalifies it anyway

Even as WHO supported Solidarity Therapeutics Trial found remdesivir to be ineffective in reducing mortality and duration of hospital stay, the global body prequalified the drug the same day the…

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Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India

While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in India reduced by 25% compared to the same period in…

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Posted on October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

Remdesivir, other repurposed drugs ineffective, says WHO’s Solidarity trial

WHO’s Solidarity Therapeutics Trial, the largest randomised control trial carried out in the world during the pandemic, has found that four repurposed drugs — remdesivir, interferon, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir regimes…

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Posted on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019

To enslave youth, E-cigarettes use time-tested machinations of big tobacco

The e-cigarettes makers have been following the time-tested machinations of the big tobacco companies to a tee. Using flavours is just one of the many strategies that e-cigarette makers have…

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Posted on August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

Pictorial warning: Will public health override free speech in the U.S?

It is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to include the Surgeon General’s warning, cigarettes packages in the U.S…

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Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019

Merck’s unlicensed Ebola vaccine shows 97.5% efficacy in Congo

Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which underwent phase-3 trial during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in west Africa, has shown 97.5% efficacy in preventing Ebola disease when used during the current epidemic in…

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Posted on January 2, 2019January 10, 2019

India should soon introduce plain packaging

Besides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was will be introduced in Uruguay and Slovenia in 2019 and…

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Posted on October 13, 2018October 13, 2018

‘Unethical to withhold bedaquiline treatment while waiting for Phase III results’

In a Phase IIb trail, bedaquiline drug for MDR-TB treatment was found to be cardiotoxic and hepatotoxic, and it also caused more deaths. Review of evidence in 2015 showed a…

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