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Exposure to acetaminophen in the womb may increase a child’s risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. The study was conducted by Xiaobing Wang, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues. It appears in JAMA Psychiatry.

Synthetic biology company, Camena Bioscience succeeded with significant breakthrough in DNA synthesis accuracy with the development of an innovative technology called gSynth™. With this pioneering enzymatic de novo synthesis and gene assembly method, gSynth is able to produce 300 nucleotide DNA molecules with an accuracy as high as 90%.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that, for the first time, it has authorized the marketing of products through the modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) pathway. The authorizations are for eight Swedish Match USA, Inc. snus smokeless tobacco products sold under the “General” brand name.

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has developed a paper to strengthen consistency when defining therapeutic indications in the product information of medicines. The document is intended to guide assessors in the national competent authorities who are responsible for evaluating marketing authorisation and extension of indication applications received by EMA. It outlines key elements that assessors should consider when evaluating the therapeutic indications proposed by the applicant, for example, whether a medicine is considered as first- or second-line treatment and whether it should be used in combination with another product. In this context, the paper takes into account some of the needs of healthcare decision-makers such as healthcare professionals and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission posted a joint warning letter to Rooted Apothecary LLC, of Naples, Florida, for illegally selling unapproved products containing cannabidiol (CBD) online with unsubstantiated claims that the products treat teething pain and ear aches in infants, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, among other conditions or diseases.

Machine learning’s powerful ability to detect patterns in complex data is revolutionizing how we drive, how we diagnose disease and now, how we discover new drugs. Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have developed a machine-learning algorithm that gleans information from microscope images - allowing for high-throughput epigenetic drug screens that could unlock new treatments for cancer, heart disease, mental illness and more.

President of Gujarat state pharmacy council (GSPC), Mr. Montu Patel elected as member of Pharmacy council of India (PCI), Delhi. He became forth member from Gujarat to offer his services under PCI. Currently, Dr. NR Seth (Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University), Dr. CN Patel (Professor & Principal, Shri Sarvajanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana) and Dr. HG Koshia (Commissioner, Food & Drugs Control Administration, Gujarat) are working members of PCI.

ITM SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, ITM (sls) BARODA UNIVERSITY, VADODARA has organized the GUJCOST sponsored National Seminar on “Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements: Unlimited Frontiers in Lifestyle Disorders & State Convention of Society of Pharmacognosy (Gujarat Chapter)”

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan conferred the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s awards for excellence in biomedical research .

The ICMR awards recognise the contributions of Indian biomedical scientists undertaking pioneering work in various fields of health sciences and finding solutions for the health problems of the country.