New Delhi: India is hosting a global summit on antibiotic resistance in the capital this week, even as the NDM-1 superbug has now made its way into the neonatal ICUs in the country that is affecting and killing new-born babies. Because of antibiotic resistance, nearly 60 thousand of new-born babies are dying every year in India of sepsis, a treatable blood infection, despite getting lifesaving antibiotics. "The organisms in the...
10:40 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: The first ever global forum on antibiotic resistance was kicked off in the Capital on Tuesday. India is hosting the summit following the superbug controversy that put the spotlight on the problem of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic usage has doubled over the past five years in the country. While access to these life-saving medicines has increased, it's also given rise to antibiotic resistance. The government planned to combat the...
09:24 AM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: India is hosting a global summit on antibiotic resistance in the Capital this week. This comes post the NDM1 superbug controversy which had put the spotlight on hospital acquired infections. Hospital acquired infections are a dangerous trend that has doctors in India worried. Dr Gaurav Gupta said, "We may treat the patient for the disease he has - but he may die of the infection he got inside...
08:51 AM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research is now taking up a large scale research to study if probiotics can be an used as an alternative medicine for women and children's health. The Rs 20.6 million industry in India, has been quite a rage since probiotic products hit store shelves five years ago. One can pick from curd (already a natural probiotic product), tofu, milk, even get their ice-cream...
09:54 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Mumbai: The Rs 20.6 million probiotic industry in India, has been quite a rage since probiotic products hit store shelves five years ago. You can pick from curd (already a natural probiotic product), tofu, milk, even get your ice-cream fermented with millions of good bacteria. Given the health benefits, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has now decided to take up a long term study to see if they...
08:11 PM, Aug 06, 2011
London: For the first time, scientists have found a "superbug" strain of gonorrhoea, resistant to all recommended antibiotics, which they fear could turn a once easily treatable sexually-transmitted disease into a global public health threat. The new strain of the disease, called H041, was found in Japan and leaves doctors with no other option than to try untested medicines to combat it. The analysis of the strain showed that it...
06:21 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: The New Delhi Superbug has been found in water samples in the capital, according to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. British researchers found the NDM-1 Superbug in 2 of 50 tap water samples and 51 of 171 samples of water from puddles in Delhi. The big question is, does that leave us at risk of infection from bacteria carrying this drug-resistant gene? "The answer...
11:20 AM, Apr 08, 2011
London: A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM 1 gene, which creates what some experts describe as "super superbugs", has spread to germs that cause cholera and dysentery, and is circulating freely in other bacteria in New Delhi, a...
12:43 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Sydney: Many common drugs, including some antibiotics, anti-histamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythm, known as arrhythmia. The group of drugs most commonly associated with this side-effects are anti-psychotic drugs, taken by patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Patients taking these drugs are up to three times more likely to die of sudden cardiac death due to an abnormal heart rhythm, the journal Nature Structural...
01:56 PM, Jan 31, 2011
New York: A push to get US doctors to use the antibiotic amoxicillin in children with acute sinus inflammation appears to be paying off, a report published today in Pediatrics indicates. That's the good news. The bad news is that inappropriate prescribing of other, more powerful antibiotics remains "common and unnecessary" in kids with sinus woes, the authors say. Acute sinusitis is very common, accounting for more than 3 million...
10:26 AM, Dec 28, 2010
New Delhi: To our special focus on People First - how can we stop the abuse of antibiotics and who's responsible for it - patients who take it without prescription or doctors who overprescribe strong medication? The Drug Controller General of India on Friday brought in new rules to buy antibiotics. You will need two copies of a prescription - one which will be in the chemist’s custody. And two,...
09:23 PM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: In a bid to check the widespread abuse of antibiotics, India's drug regulator, Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), has proposed a new rule that will make it difficult for patients to self-medicate. Doctors will now have to write prescriptions for antibiotics in duplicate. One copy will have to be retained by the chemist for a year, from the date of sale, for verification and audit. Violations will...
11:05 AM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: The honey you consume has high levels of antibiotics. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has claimed on Wednesday that a few leading Indian and foreign brands of honey have high levels of antibiotics, which could pose major health problems. The study by CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory found that Indian brands like Dabur, Baidyanath, Patanjali Ayurveda, Khadi and Himalaya had two to four antibiotics in their products,...
05:44 PM, Sep 15, 2010
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11:24 AM, Dec 29, 2009
Dr Mahajan talks about super-bugs that could be seen even more as time goes on. ...
04:30 PM, Dec 09, 2008
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