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Kenya’s drug regulator recalls cough medicine batch over health risk; The latest health stories from around the world

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Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Kenya’s drug regulator is recalling a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup, it said on Thursday, a day after Nigeria recalled the same batch of medication under the Benylin Paediatric brand. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kenya-recalls-jj-childrens-cough-syrup-over-suspected-toxicity-2024-04-11/? Nigeria’s health regulator said laboratory tests on […]

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Gambian families take government to court over cough syrup deaths; The latest health stories from around the world

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Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Families of 20 Gambian children who died after consuming cough syrups made in India will take their government to court this month for allegedly mishandling drug imports — a rare step in one of Africa’s poorest countries, where few have the

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Efficacy trials launch for tuberculosis vaccine; The latest health stories from around the world

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Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi A large-scale efficacy trial of a promising tuberculosis (TB) vaccine will soon launch with substantial backing from two major philanthropies. The vaccine, dubbed M72, has so far crawled through clinical trials. A placebo-controlled study completed in 2015 found that in adults

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Prototype point-of-care test for detecting HPV offers hope for cervical cancer detection; The latest health stories from around the world

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Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi DNA-based screening methods for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) have proven to be highly effective for early cervical cancer detection but remain too expensive and difficult to use in resource-limited settings. Kundrod et al. have developed a prototype point-of-care test for detecting

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FDA approves new RSV vaccine; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Children, covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, respiratory, sars-cov-2 / Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi A panel advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week recommended that it approve a vaccine given to pregnant people to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which can cause severe lung infections. https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-china-s-ethics-oversight-arpa-h-s-new-science-and-210-million-protein? The vote was unanimous

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Maiden Pharma’s license suspended following cough syrup deaths

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Indian authorities have suspended the licence of Delhi-based drugmaker, Maiden Pharma, after it failed to furnish information on cough syrup related deaths in West Africa’s The Gambia.The company is accused of supplying cough syrup that led to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.Meanwhile, police in The Gambia are investigating the deaths of 66

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