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Topic: Drug

New Alzheimer’s drug Lecanemab shows promising results, but raises several questions

While lecanemab saw less decline in cognition and function of patients, the drug is effective only at a very early stage -- closer to the onset of the disease.

Feeling licorishhh? How Delhi Police seized mulethi soaked in heroin worth Rs 1,800 crore

Plan was to extract heroin through a reverse chemical process, say police. The confiscation, one of the biggest hauls of heroin, was done after tipoff from 2 arrested Afghan peddlers

Diarrhoea drug, 2 hormonal contraceptives may help treat core autism symptoms, Norway study finds

Researchers from University of Oslo have identified 4 drugs with potential to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder. Their findings have been published in journal Frontiers in Pharmacology. 

How use of antibiotics for Covid patients is worsening India’s drug resistance crisis

Amid dearth of effective treatments, doctors are turning to drugs they have on hand — many are antibiotics that other countries wouldn’t use for Covid.

India has a remdesivir problem — doesn’t know where to get it, unsure if it treats Covid

As India’s vaccine trouble intensifies, doctors and patients’ kin alike have come to depend on a drug whose effectiveness remains unproven — the anti-viral injection remdesivir.

We have a drug problem and it’s the older people who are the new addicts

The pattern of drug use among older people varies — there are maintainers, survivors and reactors. And the Covid pandemic may worsen the problem.

Don’t look at everyone in Bollywood industry with same lens, says actor Akshay Kumar

Actor Akshay Kumar said that a drug issue exists in Bollywood but one shouldn't assume that every person in the profession is part of the problem in almost a four-minute long video on Twitter.

Dear viewer, you supported Rhea Chakraborty’s media trial. Republic TV, Times Now TRPs show

On the three days that Rhea Chakraborty was questioned by the NCB, the live feed began outside her home by 9 am and continued till 11 pm.

All about Biocon’s Itolizumab, psoriasis drug approved for emergency use in Covid patients

DGCI has given 'restricted emergency use' approval to the drug for treating Covid-19 patients with moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress.

Swarms of bugs, missing data plague firms now making heart drug in India

Inspection reports by US federal agency FDA stated that workers destroyed records indicating that drugs were failing key quality measures.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.