US: New drug resistant fungal infection kills 13 people supriya kashyap kashyap7 Nov 2016 12:47 PM ISTWashington : Thirteen individuals have become ill from a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection previously unseen in the United States, the...
ICMR issues fresh antibiotic guidelines to tackle superbug menace supriya kashyap kashyap1 March 2017 12:17 PM ISTMumbai : India, one of the world's biggest consumers of antibiotics, has issued new national guidelines on their use as part of a drive to fight the...
Drug Resistant TB to make up 1 in 10 cases by 2040, India to miss target: LANCET supriya kashyap kashyap10 May 2017 4:10 PM ISTNew Delhi : A new study has found that India could witness an alarming spike in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the next two decades....
Rare fungus found in 200 patients in 55 UK hospitals supriya kashyap kashyap17 Aug 2017 2:40 PM ISTLondon : A rare fungus that can cause drug-resistant infections has been found in around 200 patients in more than 55 hospitals across Britain, health...
Super malaria which cannot be killed by any drug Anjali Nimesh Nimesh25 Sept 2017 10:20 AM ISTLondon: The rapid spread of "super malaria" in the South East Asia is an alarming global threat and there is an urgent need to eliminate it before the...
Alcohol aversion drug found useful in treatment of chemo resistant lung cancer Anjali Nimesh Nimesh14 Oct 2017 7:02 PM ISTScientists have had positive results from a laboratory-based study using a well-known alcohol aversion drug to try to combat chemotherapy resistance...
Solution to drug resistant kala-azar on cards Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli10 Dec 2017 7:20 PM ISTKala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis is a public health problem in parts of India and of late, it is posing a new challenge due to the rise of drug...
Toothpaste ingredient can help fight drug-resistant malaria: Research Ruby khatun khatun19 Jan 2018 7:30 PM ISTAn ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of the malaria parasite that have grown...
Vitamin D benefits in drug-resistant Tuberculosis, finds study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli7 Feb 2019 8:28 PM ISTResearch led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London has been found that Vitamin D speeds up clearance of tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from...
New effective drug developed for advanced drug-resistant cancers: Lancet Deepanjana Sarkar10 Feb 2019 12:40 PM ISTA new drug has been found that has a "Trojan Horse" approach to attack and kill cancer cells.A new study published in The Lancet Oncology has revealed...
New study may help address drug resistant pneumococcal diseases Hina Zahid25 Feb 2019 7:15 PM ISTIndian researchers have identified three drug target sites in the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae, paving the way for developing newer drugs to...
What’s New in the Management of Malaria- Dr.Kartikeya Kohli Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli9 April 2019 8:10 PM ISTManagement of malaria has changed significantly in the past 15 years, both on an individual and population level. Dr Katherine Plewes MSc, MD, DPhil,...
