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TopicAntimicrobial resistance

Topic: Antimicrobial resistance

QR codes now mandatory on vaccines, anti-cancer drugs as govt hopes to curb fake pharma market

From top 300 pharma brands, Centre has expanded scope of QR code packaging to entire ranges of vaccines, anti-cancer medicines, antimicrobials, and narcotic and psychotropic drugs.

How a Mumbai-based firm created India’s first FDA-approved antibiotic with a molecule that never existed

India’s drug regulator approved Zaynich on 27 May, ahead of US FDA decision. Science behind it isn’t just medically significant but also unusually innovative for a field largely running dry.

Does climate change worsen antimicrobial resistance? Lancet study says there’s correlation

The study published in ‘The Lancet’ analysed 4,88,232 Salmonella genomes from 139 countries over a period from 1940 to 2023.

Inside one of the labs fighting India’s biggest healthcare threats—antimicrobial resistance

The latest AMR 2.0 National Action plan was released on 18 November. During its release, JP Nadda called antimicrobial resistance a ‘pandemic’.

English researchers chance upon ‘highly potent’ antibiotic. It may help tackle antimicrobial resistance

The new antibiotic, hiding in plain sight so far, can kill seven different types of bacteria, including those causing skin, blood, urinary infections.

Govt ropes in innovators & startups to fight antimicrobial resistance. How the initiative will work

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms Thursday launched a ‘One Health AMR Challenge 2025’ in Bengaluru to support technologies tackling AMR.

Life-threatening bloodstream infections 54% costlier to treat when caused by superbugs—ICMR study

Study conducted by 13 organisations found that in govt hospitals, direct median total cost for treating bloodstream infections triggered by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria was Rs 89,377.

All about nafithromycin, first antibiotic developed in India against deadly, drug-resistant bacteria

Developed by Mumbai-based Wockhardt, it will be available under brand name Miqnaf. Administering it once-a-day for 3 days could be significant in addressing drug-resistant pneumonia.

Killer superbugs mainly emerging from hospitals, not animals & environment—study by Indian, UK scientists

Study by scientists associated with ICMR, Cambridge University and Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, was published Tuesday in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.

Drug regulator considers making central nod mandatory for all antibiotics in India, even existing ones

This new proposal, being considered by CDSCO, comes in response to concerns over antimicrobial resistance emerging as a massive public health challenge across the globe, including in India.

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Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.