From 99 remedies 200 years ago to more than 5000 today, the homeopathy industry is growing at 30 per cent annually. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: A 75-year old in Delhi goes door to door collecting unused medicines. Omkar Nath takes his entire collection to NGOs and hospitals that work for the poor. At 75, Omkar has a booming voice and a strong will. No wonder that many have named him as the Medicine Baba and eagerly wait for his arrival as they have been doing for the past four years. A Delhi resident...
08:45 AM, Dec 20, 2011
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Bangalore:Stating that there is no shortage of medicines in the state-run hospitals, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday informed the Karnataka Assembly that the government had earmarked Rs 75.78 crore for the purchase of medicines to meet the requirements of patients. Replying to a question raised by UT Khader of the Congress (I), the CM said the state government had released Rs 25.45 crore worth medicines to various hospitals,...
10:38 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday told the central government that the prices of medicines should not rise further. "Bring it down, don't escalate it in the name of policy," the court said. "It should go down, not go up," said the apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya. The bench said that the prices of medicines and lab tests were already too high and...
11:03 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Stockholm: Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for medicine with two others on Monday, died last Friday, the prize-giving committee and the university where he worked said on Monday. An official at the Nobel committee of the Karolinska Institute, Anna Dumanski, said, "I can confirm that Professor Steinman has passed away," she said. She could not give any more details. Rockefeller University said in a statement that...
07:41 PM, Oct 03, 2011
Tripoli: Rebel forces are advancing toward Muammar Gaddafi's hometown despite the extension of the deadline for the town's surrender, rebel officials said on Friday, as UN officials warned that Libya faces critical but short-term shortages of drinking water, food and other supplies. While fighting has subsided in much of Libya, including the capital Tripoli, the six-month civil war between rebels and Gaddafi's forces disrupted supply lines and damaged infrastructure across...
07:31 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Washington: Addiction isn't just about willpower. It's a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it. "Addiction is about a lot more than people behaving badly," says Dr Michael M Miller of the American Society for Addiction Medicine. That's true whether it involves drugs and alcohol or gambling and compulsive eating, the doctors group said Monday. And...
11:00 AM, Aug 17, 2011
London: If you thought herbal supplements were safe by virtue of being 'natural,' then you could be wrong. They do have side effects, says a new research. Commonly used remedies like St John's wort, Asian ginseng, Echinacea, garlic and Ginkgo are as strong as their allopathic counterparts. Many of them do not list key information required for safe use, reports the journal BMC Medicine. For instance, St John's wort can...
01:52 PM, Aug 09, 2011
New York: Women seeking relief for menopause symptoms may have suffered a setback after a U.S. study found that taking soy supplements may not help ease menopause symptoms or prevent the bone changes that start at that time of life. Women have been without a clear go-to treatment for menopause since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study of hormone therapy reported heart and cancer risks with estrogen and progestin use...
12:19 PM, Aug 09, 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
London: A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has revealed how ancient physicians concocted medicines to treat sailors for dysentery and other ailments, a media report said Sunday. The kit contains pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, carrots, and chestnuts and was so well sealed that they miraculously survived being under water for over two millennia, The Sunday Telegraph reported. All ingredients were referred...
11:26 AM, Jul 11, 2011
Yunnan Province, China: Twenty eight Chinese universities are promoting their MBBS degrees and are top picks for Indians. Dali University - one of the top universities in China is busy promoting their MBBS course - the top pick of several aspiring Indian students. Bimbadhar and Vamshi Krishna from Andhra Pradesh was readily accepted in this university four years back along with 300 others from their state after failing to make...
08:59 AM, Jun 27, 2011
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It seems the government's days of Chakrasana are over. The Congress-led UPA that rushed several senior ministers to meet Ramdev at the airport only a ...
02:32 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev after becoming an enemy of MNCs is now a crusader against corruption, but there's a whole other side to the Yoga Guru. Ramdev has made some pretty striking statements in the past. Baba Ramdev had earlier taken a stand against cold drinks saying, "Drinking cold drinks cause cancer, drinking cold drinks can also lead to impotency, drinking cold drinks causes osteoporosis, drinking cold drinks can also...
09:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Trenton: UNICEF is for the first time publicising what drugmakers charge it for vaccines, as the world's biggest buyer of lifesaving immunisations aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs. UNICEF posted on its website the actual prices that it has paid individual drugmakers for 16 vaccines purchased over the last decade. It's a move that a few Western pharmaceutical companies don't support. Novartis AG and Merck...
07:38 AM, May 29, 2011
Muzaffarpur: A Vigilance court in Bihar on Saturday acquitted Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SK Modi for alleged irregularities in the purchase of medicines of Rs 8 crore for cattle between January 15 to January 30, 2008. Special Vigilance Judge (Muzaffarpur) Arun Kumar Singh exonerated Modi of all the charges in connection with the case. Singh also ordered the state vigilance bureau to register FIRs against District Animal Husbandry Officer (DAHO)...
04:55 PM, May 28, 2011
Washington: An Indian-American couple in New Jersey has pleaded guilty before a US court for selling counterfeit prescription drugs made in India, federal authorities said. The couple, 47-year-old Nita Patel and 57-year-old Harshad Patel, offered 'generic' forms of patented pharmaceutical products for sale over the internet, the source of which was an Indian company, court documents said. They face a maximum of 10 years of jail prison and a $250,000...
08:40 AM, May 17, 2011
London: In just less than a decade, Ayurveda has made a huge impact on many Londoners as more of them turn away from invasive allopathic treatment. But the new ruling comes as a blow to both the industry and patients. Director of Ayuspa Ayurvedic centre Muneet Dohil said, "We have seen the number of practitioners double every year, we now have Ayurvedic courses and degrees here which can train the...
07:21 PM, May 01, 2011
London: Scientists have developed a new nasal spray which they claim could help beat depression and anxiety within two hours. The spray, which contains a natural brain chemical, is designed to penetrate the brain areas involved in mood. According to researchers, the spray could be effective within two hours, compared to other antidepressants which take several days to work, the Daily Mail reported. It is estimated that one in four...
02:19 PM, Apr 27, 2011
New Delhi: India recorded 25 million cases of Malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009 - according to the World Health Organisation. That's one tenth the number of cases worldwide. And now a bigger threat emerging is that of drug resistance. About ten years ago, the most commonly used anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, stopped working against the malaria parasite, forcing countries to switch to the second line of treatment, called...
09:24 AM, Apr 25, 2011
