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The CDSCO has warned against indiscriminate use of painkillers and antibiotics, citing associated risks including chronic kidney disease. It has directed State drug authorities to enforce prescription requirements, while advising doctors, retailers and the public to promote safer medicine use.

Amid a rise in monsoon-related illnesses, doctors have urged people not to self-medicate with antibiotics for fever. They stressed that fever can have several causes and unnecessary antibiotic use can cause side effects and fuel antimicrobial resistance

The findings highlight the importance of using these medicines in infants appropriately and how early-life drug exposure could shape future health outcomes

Dr Randeep Guleria emphasises that antibiotics don't work for Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), urging proper hydration, nutrition, and symptom management for mild infections

Antimicrobial Resistance needs global collaboration to tackle the threat to public health

The seizure was made for exporting the products manufactured by other pharmaceutical companies to Russia falsely under their own name and for unauthorized packing of antibiotics, DG, TSDCA, V B Kamalasan Reddy on Wednesday said

Latest data, between January 2023 and December 2023, taken-up across the country including Hyderabad, has given a clear indication that the most common class of antibiotics have become ineffective in treating ailments.

During the course of the raids, the TSDCA seized substantial stocks of antibiotics, steroids, analgesics, anti-diabetics, anti-hypertensive etc. worth Rs 47, 000.

The TSDCA urged people to exercise caution and use antibiotics responsibly to avoid developing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). “When antibiotics are used incorrectly, bacteria start to acquire resistance to the ‘antibiotics’ designed to kill them.

Antimicrobial Resistance threatens effective prevention and treatment of infections caused by resistant microbes, resulting in prolonged illness and greater risk of death

The initiative is aimed at checking misuse, and overuse of antimicrobials: DGHS

DCA officials seized 36 varieties of medicines, including antibiotics, steroids, anti-ulcer drugs, analgesics etc worth Rs.95,000 and seized the stock

Fake antibiotics worth Rs 22.95 lakh were seized during the raids at Uppal and Dilsukhnagar

Senior doctors who have been tracking the antibiotics usage in a survey at Osmania Medical College and Osmania General Hospital (OGH) said that common antibiotics that are prescribed were not working in a majority of patients, as they have developed resistance to the antibiotics.

Antibiotic resistance is rising more rapidly than we realise. We urgently need new solutions to stop invasive multidrug-resistant infections and the needless deaths of thousands of children each year, said Dr Phoebe Williams

Antimicrobial resistance has been identified as a global issue by the World Health Organisation because the majority of clinical antibiotics no longer effectively combat some dangerous bacteria

The US drug maker informed Pfizer that its falling short of Bicillin -- a long-acting injectable form of the antibiotic penicillin

The Indian Council of Medical Research has issued guidelines warning against the use of antibiotics for conditions such as low-grade fever and viral bronchitis

Karimnagar chapters of IMA and Association of Physicians of India (API) organized the World Antimicrobial awareness week from November 18 to 24.

New Delhi: A Health Ministry official has dismissed as “misleading and inappropriate” a Lancet report claiming that more than 47 per cent of antibiotic formulations used in India’s private sector in 2019 were unapproved. Prof. Y K Gupta, a senior pharmacologist and vice chairman of the Standing National Committee on Medicines (SNCM) which prepared the […]