Zika virus: UN agencies step up response measures following declaration of public health emergency United Nations Print | 2 February 2016 – Following yesterday’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern regarding the cluster of microcephaly and other neurological disorders in relation to the Zika virus, United Nations agencies today highlighted their actions to support affected co...
A California doctor was sentenced to prison for drug overdose deaths of patients The Examiner In an era of heightened concern and disgust with doctors who are simply pill pushers a California doctor has learned the hard way patience for such professional misconduct is wearing thin. The Los Angeles Times reported on Feb. 5, 2016, a doctor has ...
Creating virus-like particles for drug delivery Indian Express | By M R N Murthy & H S Savithri | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Many years ago, in the 1990s, we at the Molecular Biophysics Unit and the Department of Biochemistry of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, determined the thre...
Don't buy medicines online: FDA to citizens DNA India The FDA said that since the government is still in process of how to monitor and regulate online sale of drugs, they cannot presently take action on people selling medicines online. | In a move to control the rising popularity of online sale of drugs...
Children to get deworming tablets on February 10 The Hindu The government will distribute Albendazole anti-worm tablets for children aged between one year and 19 years in Dakshina Kannada on February 10 free of cost, according to Ramakrishna Rao, District Health and Family Welfare Officer. | Addressing the m...
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WHO declares it a global public health emergency Indian Express Daniele Ferreira dos Santos holds her son, Juan Pedro, as he undergoes an exam at the Altino Ventura foundation in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. San...
Millionaire Pharma’s Bad Boy Threatens Ghostface Killah Inquisitr Martin Shkreli, considered “the most hated man in America” today after soaring to public infamy by raising the cost of pharmaceutical drug... (photo: AP / Seth Wenig)
