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Topic: Drug

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.

High time India, the land of bhang, legalises marijuana

Regulation allows cannabis buyers to know what they’re consuming and moderate their intake, in the same way that a drinker can distinguish and choose between a whiskey and a beer.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

Sudden hike in Haryana circle rates is 2nd since Dec; stamp duty as high as 145% in parts of Gurugram

Gurugram: In an action that will significantly impact the value of property transactions in Haryana, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has approved revised collector rates,...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.