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TopicDrug trials

Topic: drug trials

Health ministry to amend New Drugs & Clinical Trials Rules to promote ease of doing business

Amendments to the rules, framed in 2019, aims to simplify requirements & procedures for obtaining test licences & submitting applications related to bioavailability/bioequivalence studies.

Trial in India finds 2-drug combinations 5 times more effective than single pill in controlling hypertension

Amlodipine & perindopril, amlodipine & indapamide, and perindopril & indapamide achieved blood pressure control in 70 percent of patients to less than 140/90 mm Hg in six months.

Cancer ‘disappears’, every patient in remission — New York drug trial shows astonishing results

Fourteen patients with rectal cancer carrying a specific genetic mutation were rid of the disease using immunotherapy, without need for chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.

Pharma firms and diagnostics developers need to unite. They are catalysts for saving lives

Studies of drugs like remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine were underpowered and small, and the results were conflicting and, in many cases, inconclusive.

AstraZeneca may have used outdated data in vaccine trial, say US health officials

The Data and Safety Monitoring Board late Monday said that it was concerned AstraZeneca may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data.

Brazil trial shows Sinovac vaccine above 50% effective, but researchers delay full results

Sinovac is betting on a successful vaccine to inoculate more people around the world, especially in developing countries that will have limited access to the Pfizer and Moderna shots.

New antibody therapy may lower Covid hospitalisations, Eli Lilly says

Interim results from Lilly and AbCellera’s treatment trial found a 1.7% hospitalisation rate compared with a 6% rate among people on a placebo, a 72% reduction in risk and no deaths.

Pune’s Serum Institute set to start human trials of Oxford Covid vaccine, gets regulator nod

DCGI decision to allow human trials on 1,600 participants in India is based on data submitted by SII on first two phases of Oxford University trials.

UK company Synairgen declares clinical trial of protein treatment for Covid as successful

Synairgen said its SNG001 formulation greatly reduced the number of hospitalised Covid-19 patients, who progressed from requiring oxygen to requiring ventilation.

Why there is a big debate over accuracy and results of Covid anti-body tests

The anti-body test is crucial to understanding Covid-19 & the virus that causes it. It can tell how many people potentially have some level of immunity.

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Age-gap romances are tricky in India. Here’s how Bollywood navigates them

Cheeni Kum challenged many conventions. It didn’t shy away from addressing concerns of a man in his sixties, from ‘keeping up’ with his much younger partner.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.