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A team of researchers from University of Maryland found that Young adults who eat more fermented foods have fewer social anxiety symptoms. The study is published in the Psychiatry Research journal.
The Andhra Pradesh government has launched a new software application ‘e-Aushadini’ to manage stocks of various drugs in government hospitals. The main aim of 'e-Aushadini' is to ascertain the needs of various district drug warehouses such that all the required materials/drugs are constantly available to be supplied to the user district drug warehouses without delay.
(NewsVoir); Aggressively moving towards its expansion plans, 1mg.com - India’s leading m-health platform that has also been operating the largest e-Pharmacy marketplace in the country, announced today that it has decided to expand the scope of its platform and is entering the alternate medicine space (AYUSH categories) through the acquisition of www. Homeobuy.com. Homeobuy is a web platform for homeopathy medicines. With this acquisition, 1mg will re-brand the website to www. 1mgAyush.com and make Homeopathic & Ayurvedic medicines available to customers in New Delhi.
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India and the European Union will soon begin research on health with focus on 'Diagnostics and interventions in chronic non-communicable diseases'. Main aim behind this collaboration is to support high quality research and development of tools and technologies for the diagnostics of chronic non-communicable diseases; research and innovation within interventions for chronic non-communicable diseases; and mechanisms in chronic non-communicable diseases. This will strengthen scientific, technology and business collaborations between Europe and India.
Savitribai Phule Pune University’s department of Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences and Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology have proved that Triphala, a widely used ayurvedic formulations, effective against a wide range of diseases like cardiovascular diseases, asthma, arthritis, diabetes and cancer. The team of scientists Uma Chandran, Neelay Mehendale, Girish Tillu and Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan used a technique known as poly-pharmacology. Triphala formulation as a whole contains 174 bioactives.
Sandoz, a Novartis company, has launched Glatopa in US markets. Glatopa is the first generic version of Teva's Copaxone (glatiramer acetate injection) 20 mg/ml one-time-daily multiple sclerosis therapy. It is used in treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Intas Pharmaceuticals on Friday announced launching of Razumab, a biosimilar to Lucentis (ranibizumab). Novartis' eye drug Lucentis has long had a target on its back from biosimilar makers who would love to get some piece of the $4 billion in annual sales it racks up. Razumab will be 25 per cent cheaper than its imported alternate.
A study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve and UT Southwestern Medical Center showed An experimental drug help by regrow damaged liver, colon and bone marrow tissue in laboratory mice. Now scientist trying to work in humans. However, experts cautioned that their research is at a very early stage, and more work is needed before it can be tested in humans. This experimental drug is now known only as SW033291. It can shut down the activity of a gene product found in all humans, 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH), that in turn allows room for more prostaglandin E2, which encourages many types of tissue stem cells to grow and promotes healing.
An antidepressant and a heart drug approved for use in humans may also help treat the deadly Ebola disease, a new study in mice suggests. Researchers screened about 2,600 compounds for their ability to hinder Ebola's activity, and identified 30 drugs that were effective against the virus in a lab dish. Two of the drugs — the antidepressant sertraline and a heart drug called bepridil - appeared particularly promising for their action against Ebola. The drugs appear to inhibit Ebola infection by preventing the genetic material of the virus from getting inside the host's cells.
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