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- Read more about Remarkable Women Camaraderie 2018 by Eminence Business Media
Eminence Business Media supports the cause of “Women Empowerment” by organizing a non-profitable event Remarkable Women Camaraderie 2018 on 12th October at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai.
- Read more about Eminence Business Media’s Improving Investigation Process & CAPA 2018
Eminence Business Media’s debut edition of “Improving Investigation Process & CAPA 2018” successfully concluded on October 11th & 12th, 2018, at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai.
- Read more about MoU signed on India-UK Cancer Research Initiative for Affordable Approaches to Cancer
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the partnership between Department of Biotechnology and Cancer Research UK for the India-UK India-UK Cancer Research Initiative was signed today in New Delhi.The India-UK Cancer Research Initiative is a collaborative 5-year bilateral research initiative by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, India and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) that will focus on affordable approaches to cancer. Both CRUK and DBT will invest £5m each in this 5-year pilot, and seek further investment from other potential funding partners.

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- Read more about Health Ministry has taken up several focused and targeted schemes for addressing nutrition challenges in the country: J P Nadda
The Health Ministry has taken up several focused and targeted schemes for addressing nutrition challenges in the country in a convergence mode with the other Ministries.We have focussed on Immunisation, detection and supplementation. This was stated by Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare at the 3rd meeting of the “National Council on India’s Nutrition Challanges” in presence of Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child Development.
- Read more about NIH scientists illuminate causes of hepatitis b virus-associated acute liver failure
National Institutes of Health scientists and their collaborators found that hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated acute liver failure (ALF) - a rare condition that can turn fatal within days without liver transplantation - results from an uncommon encounter between a highly mutated HBV variant and an unusual immune response in the patient’s liver that is mainly sustained by antibody-producing B cells. Their study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Read more about Of all human diseases, 60% originate in animals: WHO
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. As a result of infection with drug-resistant bacteria an estimated 700 000 people die each year worldwide. A total of around 33 000 die annually in the European Union and European Economic Area, and this number is increasing all the time.
- Read more about FDA warns StemGenex Biologic Laboratories
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned StemGenex Biologic Laboratories LLC (StemGenex) of San Diego, Calif; its owner/manager Rita F. Alexander and laboratory and medical director Jenny R. Galloway, M.D. about marketing a purported stem cell product without FDA approval and for significant deviations from current good manufacturing practice requirements, including some that could lead to microbial contamination, putting patients at risk.
- Read more about IPA request Union health minister to include pharmacists into NPCDCS
The pharmacist have tremendous role to the improvement of public health. With this conviction, IPA decide to develop Public-Private-Partnership (PPA) agreement initiated by Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) and Central TB Division (CTBD) in 2006 to explore the potential of pharmacists for TB control programme. The association has now mooted another proposal with the CTBD to tap the potential of the retail pharmacists working in community pharmacies and hospital pharmacies.
- Read more about New measures and strong partnership having positive impact on Ebola response in Congo, reports WHO
New measures to overcome challenges in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are having a positive impact, although the outbreak remains dangerous and unpredictable, the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and the World Health Organization (WHO) said after a joint mission to assess the outbreak.
- Read more about FDA took new steps to strengthen and modernize inspections for sterile injectable drugs
Manufacturing inspections are one of the FDA’s most important tools for ensuring the quality of pharmaceutical products used by American patients. Inspections help us to identify manufacturing issues that could pose potential risks to patients, or problems that could contribute to drug shortages, enabling us to engage manufacturers to address and resolve issues.