Drugs Health Pharma

Malaria, TB among top diseases where vaccines needed most: WHO 

Malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis were among a list of 17 disease-causing pathogens where vaccines need to be developed as a priority to reduce.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

Mid-stage trial of a rectal microbicide for HIV prevention in the US begins 

HQ Team November 3, 2024: The National Instituted of Health, US, has started a mid-stage clinical trial to examine the safety and acceptability.

Read More
Drugs Health Medical

Tuberculosis was the world’s top infectious disease killer last year

Tuberculosis has emerged as the world’s top infectious disease with about 8.2 million people newly diagnosed with the illness last year — the.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

Gilead, Merck’s HIV experimental drug scores ‘high’ on viral suppression

Merck & Co., Inc., and Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s investigational combinational drug for HIV treatment, put on clinical hold last year, has met a.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

Gilead signs six global pacts to make, sell generic HIV preventive drug

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has signed non-exclusive, royalty-free voluntary licensing agreements with six pharmaceutical makers to make and sell its generic lenacapavir drug for the prevention.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

One in seven adolescents globally suffer from mental health disorders 

About one in seven adolescents in the age group of 10-19 suffer from mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, according to the.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

PrEPVacc HIV trials’ results ‘surprising’ as dummy group clocks less infections

HIV vaccine trials conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa threw up surprising results when more infections were reported in the two vaccine groups.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

Alcohol claims 2.6 million lives yearly, 209m people are dependent: WHO

About 400 million people globally live with alcohol and drug use disorders and of the total, 209 million people have alcohol dependence, according.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

One billion people may get better health services by 2025: WHO says

HQ Team May 7, 2024: A target of one billion additional people enjoying better health and well-being is likely to be met by.

Read More
Drugs Health Pharma

US-based Varda Space crystallises HIV drug in microgravity

 HQ Team March 31, 2024: US-based Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft in orbit crystallised a metastable form of a drug for HIV/AIDS — furthering.

Read More