Fund crunch slows down India’s indigenous ‘warm’ COVID-19 vaccine
N.B. Nair Bengaluru (ISJ Exclusive): The global pandemic of COVID-19, which broke out on 30 January 2020 in India took away the lives of 5,30,720...
Category : Drugs & Medicines
Can Viagra reduce risk of Alzheimer’s disease?
Washington/New Delhi (ISJ): Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It is expected to affect 14 million Indians by 2050 according to the...
‘Mulethi’ may help alleviate aggressive symptoms of COVID-19: Indian scientists
New Delhi (ISW): In an interesting development, a team of scientists at National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), under the federal Department of Biotechnology has identified Mulethi, a commonly...
US scientists isolate new molecule from chestnut leaves to neutralise dangerous drug-resistant bacteria
Washington (ISJ) – Inspired by traditional folk remedies of Italy, scientists at a US University has isolated a molecule extracted from the leaves of the...
India’s drug regulatory body approves clinical trial of plant-based anti-cancer drug
Indian drug regulatory body – Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation has given green signal to Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine to conduct clinical trials of...
Is asthma drug useful for TB as well ?
Indian scientists find an existing anti-asthma drug is effective against tuberculosis and can overcome the issue of drug resistance as well. Researchers at Indian Institute...
CCMB working to make personalised medicine a reality
Scientists at Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology are working now to convert ordinary cells extracted from a patient’s body and use them to develop...
NII research raises hope for cervix cancer patients
Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in India. Almost one lakh women fall victim to the insidious disease every...
Indian researchers find arthritis drug may treat cancer too
Researchers at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi find anti-arthritis drug diflunisal can be used to kill Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium responsible for stomach-related problems...
Indian scientists resurrect World War era drug to fight malaria
A neglected and old anti-parasitic drug used during the World War II is emerging as a new weapon in the fight against malaria. A group...