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Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

vaccine doses manufactured and distributed across the world in the last one year alone, half of them were manufactured in India, said Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava. She said this while addressing the annual India Leadership Summit 2024, organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum here today. Punya said India has emerged as a global leader in pharmaceuticals, being the third-largest producer and a key supplier of generic medicines. This sector's success has resulted in substantial savings for healthcare systems worldwide, including a notable contribution to the US healthcare system.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins

First, the good news: Americans are living longer than they used to.

Experts say the fallout from storm damage to a North Carolina factory that makes critical hospital supplies will be felt broadly and could linger

cancer drugs, a bid to prevent counterfeits and validate the authenticity of medicines after incidents of refilling of expensive anti-cancer drugs with counterfeit drugs came to light. The proposal was discussed in a recent meeting of the Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), India's highest advisory body on drugs, which deliberated on the matter and agreed to it, said people familiar with the matter. The implementation of the proposal will, however, require an amendment to Schedule H2 of Drugs Rules, 1945, and therefore will be sent to the health ministry soon, they said. The board was informed that criminals in collusion with hospital pharmacies were found refilling empty vials of expensive anti-cancer medicines with counterfeit drugs. These fake drugs were then mixed with genuine stocks and sold to unsuspecting cancer patients, putting their life at risk.

Lupin on Friday said its subsidiary has acquired nine brands from the Medical Nutritional Institute SA (MNI) in South Africa, through a partnership deal with ImpiloVest. Pharma Dynamics has acquired the nine brands along with their associated trademarks through a partnership deal with ImpiloVest, a South African investment firm, Lupin said in a statement. The acquired brands include AntaGolin, RyChol, NeuroVance, SkinVance, FlamLeve, Rheumalin, SleepVance, ImmunoVance, and OviVance, it added. These products cater to a range of health issues such as metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, cognitive function, skin health, inflammation, joint care, sleep quality, immune support, and women's hormonal well-being.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Many diseases are the result of choice or circumstance: an unhealthy way of life, toxic living conditions or a chance encounter with a virus or bacterium. Others are predestined—because they are written in the genes.

Eli Lilly is pouring another $4.5 billion into expanding drug manufacturing and development

chroming. Specialists elucidate this pattern. The new huffing for the younger generation is called chroming. Per Dr. Anthony Pizon, an emergency medicine professor and chief of the medical toxicology division at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the dangerous practice is a means of getting high via inhaling hydrocarbons through the misuse of a variety of legal products, including permanent markers, aerosol deodorant, nail polish, metallic paint, computer duster, carburetor cleaner, paint thinners, gasoline, and hair spray. According to Pizon, the name originates from the remnant of chrome or metallic paint that is left on one's face after breathing in metallic paints applied to a cloth. According to Dr. Betty Choi, a pediatrician and author of ‘Human Body Learning Lab: Take An Inside Tour of How Your Anatomy Works,’ common types of chroming entail breathing via the nose or mouth straight from the container or from a cloth or plastic bag soaked with the desired substance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. "Since 2-3 years, Amma used to fall sick if she tasted Tirupati Laddu and used to tell us not to eat too much of it. We put it on her general paranoia as she has a hundred complaints about hyegine (sic) everywhere.

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that he will soon resume discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors to plot a way out of the worst economic crisis in the country’s history

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Complaints against Ayurvedic products that make exaggerated, misleading or deceptive claims to be better than modern medicine can now be filed on a dedicated government portal, two people directly involved with the process said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There used to be a time when upon joining a gym, the first thing trainers would make you do would be to stand on a BMI (body mass index) machine, enter your height and weight, and wait while it whirred and spat out a receipt with your number. While BMI is basically a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person, the machine would also give data on visceral fat, real age and other determinants that could either be impressive or scary or both.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A price battle has broken out in the hot market for weight-loss drugs. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical heavyweights selling the popular injections, are each dangling discounts to gain an edge and to induce health plans to pay up.

Daylight saving 2024 in the USA is ending soon. The fall season is all set to start on this weekend, the autumnal equinox will take place on Sunday. The clock will set back for an hour.

search operation at the residences and nursing home of TMC MLA Sudipto Roy in connection with its probe into financial irregularities at the RG Kar hospital, an officer said. Sleuths of the central probe agency, who started the operation at Roy's residences in Sithi and the adjoining nursing home early on Tuesday, left at around 2 am on Wednesday with a «boxful of documents», he said. «Some important case-related documents have been seized. We are trying to find out whether the doctor had carried out any financial transaction or other dealings with the hospital,» he told PTI. Besides Roy's residences and his nursing home, the ED also conducted raids at the house of a medicine dealer and four other places.

Kamala Harris has now been accused of donning James Bond-style gear during her latest appearance at the US Presidential Debate 2024, where she was simply outstanding in an open debate against her Republican adversary Donald Trump. It must be interesting to note that she gave Trump the taste of the same medicine that Joe Biden received during his Presidential Debate against Trump.

suo motu cognisance of the widespread protests impacting medical services and set up a 10-member national task force to make recommendations on ensuring safe working conditions for medical professionals and preventing violence against them. While suggestions are pouring in from stakeholders, young medics told Mint what they endure in their professions and what it would take to make them feel safe again. According to a study by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), over 75% of doctors have faced violence of some kind at the workplace.

Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday called for more investment in research and development to drive innovation and foster culture of intellectual property. She highlighted how the country, already the world's largest exporter of generics and a major player in vaccine production, can achieve greater value by nurturing innovation. Mazumdar-Shaw called for a shift in focus toward value creation through innovation. «India ranks 14th in terms of value in the global pharma landscape. We need to invest in R&D and foster a culture of intellectual property to capture greater value,» she said. Addressing a session during the Global Bio-India 2024 event, she positioned the country as a future global leader in biosciences and innovation.

Health Canada is issuing a recall for vitamins and medicines sold by Canadian pharmaceutical brand JAMP Pharma, the health agency said in recall notices.