YOU WONT BELIEVE: 152 - What They Never Told You

WHO medical product alert: one batch of Indian-made combination syrup found contaminated in Iraq

WHO warns of substandard COLD OUT syrup containing unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol. The product may have been distributed to other countries and can be fatal if consumed. Increased vigilance and testing is recommended, as well as informing WHO if the substandard product is discovered.

The Hindu · Aug 7, 2023

Can dogs get Covid?

A new Covid variant dubbed as Eris has emerged across the UK - here’s what we know so far

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2023

Covid Eris symptoms: All we know about new variant driving surge in cases

Eris desends from Omicron and is now the second most prevalent Covid variant in the UK

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2023

Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0 from Monday

Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 5.0, the vaccine catch-up campaign, which focusses on reaching zero-dose children aged between 0 and 5 years and pregnant women who might have missed any vaccine doses in the national immunisation schedule, will begin on August 7

The Hindu · Aug 4, 2023

Mo Foster obituary

Other Lives: Session bass guitarist who played on many hit singles and albums

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2023

India needs evidence-based, ethics-driven medicine

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have found that across ailments, population groups, study types, and treatment regimes, homoeopathic treatments lack clinically significant effects

The Hindu · Aug 3, 2023

The many challenges of ensuring maternal and child health in India

A WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA paper titled ‘Improving maternal and newborn health and survival and reducing stillbirth progress report 2023’, observed that India’s share of the total maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths was about 17%. Both newborns and women are extremely vulnerable in the hours and days after birth and therefore…

The Hindu · Aug 3, 2023

Health Ministry sets deadline for pharma industry to implement revised Schedule M

GMP comprises mandatory standards that build and bring quality to products by way of control on materials, methods, machines, processes, personnel, and facility or environment, etc. The GMP system was first incorporated in 1988 in Schedule M of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, and the last amendment was done…

The Hindu · Aug 2, 2023

‘Black suffering’: Henrietta Lacks medical research lawsuit settled in US

Cells taken in 1951 from Lacks, a Black woman, without her knowledge became the cornerstone of modern medical research.

Al Jazeera · Aug 1, 2023

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

As the planet warms thanks to climate change, tropical storms are becoming more frequent, more powerful, and wetter

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2023