May 03,2024 London: U.S. attorneys for a woman who claims her colon cancer was caused by the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac on Thursday told a jury in Chicago that pharmaceutical companies GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim knew the product could...
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May 03,2024 New Delhi: A top Indian medical scientist has asked people not to panic as any side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine is a “rare occurrence”. Former Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist R Ganga Ketkar, who was...
May 05,2024 Guwahati: A study conducted by physician-scientists from Assam Medical College Hospital (Dibrugarh), supported by ICMR-recognised multidisciplinary research laboratory, has revealed that 55 per cent of Covishield vaccine recipients experienced only minor side effects like fever and headache. These...
May 10,2024 New Delhi: Soaring temperatures in many parts of India are fuelling demand for medications that manage chronic conditions. This includes medications for high blood pressure (antihypertensives), cholesterol (lipid-lowering drugs), and blood clotting (platelet aggregation inhibitors). Sales of oral...
May 10,2024 New Delhi: In the wake of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca admitting in a UK court that its Covid vaccine can cause blood clots in rare cases, a group of doctors on Thursday expressed deep concern over the safety of...
May 06,2024 New Delhi: COVID is still there among us and recently two new variants have been found in the US. Termed as the “FLiRT” these two variants include KP.2 which overtook the JN.1 subvariant of Omicron in recent weeks....
May 09,2024 New Delhi: Amid concerns over thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) – a serious adverse event that causes blood clots and a low blood platelet count, linked to AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine – Serum Institute of India (SII), the maker...
Apr 27,2024 New Delhi: The ICMR has planned to expand its Indian Clinical Trial and Education Network (INTENT) and invited tenders from public and private medical research institutes for coordinating regulatory clinical trials for drugs and devices. These expressions of...
Apr 24,2024 Hyderabad: Some medical shops were found to be selling certain anti-fungal medicines at almost double the actual cost, the Drugs Control Administration (DCA) said. Stocks worth 5.5 lakh were seized during two separate raids conducted on Tuesday. DCA...
Apr 20,2024 London: The World Health Organisation is likely to issue a wider warning about contaminated Johnson and Johnson-made children’s cough syrup found in Nigeria last week, it said in an email. Nigeria’s regulator recalled a batch of Benylin paediatric...