New Delhi: There is good news for clinicians and doctors struggling to save patients from infections by deadly bacteria—the soft launch of nafithromycin, India’s first indigenously developed antibiotic, last week. Bacterial …
New Delhi: Superbugs responsible for life-threatening infections and highly resistant to last resort antibiotics may be emerging in hospitals, primarily due to misuse and abuse of such drugs, rather than …
New Delhi: India’s drug regulator, Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is considering a proposal to treat all antibiotics as “new drugs” and, thereby, making centralised approval mandatory for launching …
New Delhi: The Indian scientific community has hailed the recent consensus by global political leaders to phase out the use of medically significant antibiotics in the agriculture and food production sectors. …
New Delhi: In 2019, between 3 and 10.4 lakh people in India died due to bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a condition in which pathogenic bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics, …
New Delhi: Researchers at the University of Texas in the United States have modified a naturally-produced antibiotic using artificial intelligence (AI) and developed a version safe for human use — …
Descrease article font size Increase article font size In response to the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance, the Public Health Agency of Canada on Friday announced new national prescribing guidelines …
Drug-resistant diseases pose a serious and growing threat to humans and animals. Antimicrobial resistance, which renders antibiotics ineffective against bacterial disease, is widely acknowledged as one of the most urgent …
New Delhi: The Modi government has asked doctors across the country to specifically mention the indication — or the reason for prescription — every time they prescribe an antibiotic to …
New Delhi: For India and other countries faced with the grave problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), there is some good news. Scientists seem to have discovered a new class of …