Drug abuse can put your teen's health and safety at risk. Parents! Here are some warning signs that your teen may be using drugs.
Parents, get to know the factors that may predispose your teen to substance use and how to protect them from drugs.
While quinine has been used as an effective medicine for treating malaria (it can kill the germ causing the illness), the chemical is associated with adverse effects if taken in high doses.
There are drugs that much like alcohol might show higher blood concentration and might take more time to get out of the system in women.
Addiction is a chronic disease that can have serious physical, mental, and emotional consequences. Here's how to help yourself or a loved one who is struggling with substance use.
The crackdown came after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) inspected 76 pharmaceutical companies.
Tuberculosis is not essentially a disease of the poor but poverty makes it hard to come out of it.
Timely diagnosis of TB and finding a working treatment for the condition is a challenge. Many people drop treatment prematurely due to high economic burden.
Tuberculosis or TB has become a common disease nowadays. It is an infectious disease that typically affects people's lungs. When a person with pulmonary tuberculosis coughs, sneezes, or spits in public, other people may become infected with the disease.
Stories of 10 Bollywood celebrities who despite their lit career suffered from drug addiction and went to rehabilitation centres.
According to CDC, antibiotic resistance is a combination of many factors- uncontrolled access to antibiotics, overdose and overuse of antibiotics and easy spread of communicable diseases.
A new drug known as Xylazine or Tranq is causing havoc on American streets. Xylazine is a public health threat, and its use is increasing exponentially in major cities across the country. The drug is sold on the streets as "Tranq Dope," which is a mix of Fentanyl and Xylazine and can be bought for a few dollars per bag. The drug has been described as "zombifying people's bodies." The drug leaves terrible scars on those who use it, which is causing public health authorities to be horrified by its spread.
A new drug is causing alarm on the US streets, literally rotting people's skin. Drug overdoses have always been a problem on American streets. Federal reports suggest that one person dies of a drug overdose every five minutes in America. The substance known as Xylazine, otherwise known as Tranq, is creating fear in major cities across the country with its devastating effects. The drug's use is increasing exponentially where it lands, causing outbreaks of skin infections and overdoses. The national spread of xylazine is a public health threat. Watch Video.
In 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally recommended the use of the dolutegravir (DTG) drug as the most preferred antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those people who are living with HIV.
The disease is a leading cause of permanent disability worldwide
Patients and healthcare providers have been advised to discontinue using EzriCare artificial tears after CDC found the presence of the outbreak strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in multiple samples.
Nearly 10,000 residents died in the province due to drug overdoses since British Columbia declared drugs to be a public health emergency in 2016.
In India, bacteria that cause common infections, such as urinary tract and bloodstream infections, are becoming resistant to nearly all antibiotics
Not all medicines can be taken as per need, some strictly have a fixed consumption period.
Beijing has decided to distribute Pfizer's antiviral drug Paxlovid to community health centres to treat high-risk COVID-19 patients.
Till now people suffering from Alzheimer's have received treatment to manage their symptoms but none of the drugs had the power to change the course of the disease
Before prescribing aspirin to you, your physician will have to consider many health factors. Hence, the drug must not be consumed without guidance
None of these four drugs in question is sold domestically in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a press note.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) describes a group of disorders associated with spinal motor neuron loss. The different forms of SMA are associated with numerous gene mutations and significant phenotypic variability. SMA is usually categorized by a pattern of weakness whether predominantly proximal or distal and mode of inheritance. Spinal muscular atrophy type 0 is evident before birth and is the rarest and most severe form of the condition. Affected infants move less in the womb, and as a result, they are often born with joint deformities (contractures). They have extremely weak muscle tone (hypotonia) at birth. Their respiratory muscles are very weak and they often do not survive past infancy due to respiratory failure. We have an expert who will be talking more about SMA, Watch Video.
Addiction is a chronic disease that can have serious physical, mental, and emotional consequences. Here's how to help yourself or a loved one who is struggling with substance use.
The crackdown came after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) inspected 76 pharmaceutical companies.
Timely diagnosis of TB and finding a working treatment for the condition is a challenge. Many people drop treatment prematurely due to high economic burden.
According to CDC, antibiotic resistance is a combination of many factors- uncontrolled access to antibiotics, overdose and overuse of antibiotics and easy spread of communicable diseases.
In 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally recommended the use of the dolutegravir (DTG) drug as the most preferred antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those people who are living with HIV.
The disease is a leading cause of permanent disability worldwide
Patients and healthcare providers have been advised to discontinue using EzriCare artificial tears after CDC found the presence of the outbreak strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in multiple samples.
Nearly 10,000 residents died in the province due to drug overdoses since British Columbia declared drugs to be a public health emergency in 2016.
In India, bacteria that cause common infections, such as urinary tract and bloodstream infections, are becoming resistant to nearly all antibiotics
Not all medicines can be taken as per need, some strictly have a fixed consumption period.
Beijing has decided to distribute Pfizer's antiviral drug Paxlovid to community health centres to treat high-risk COVID-19 patients.
Till now people suffering from Alzheimer's have received treatment to manage their symptoms but none of the drugs had the power to change the course of the disease
Before prescribing aspirin to you, your physician will have to consider many health factors. Hence, the drug must not be consumed without guidance
None of these four drugs in question is sold domestically in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a press note.
Studies find presence of the contaminant NDMA, which is a probable human carcinogen, in Zinetac. Read on to know all about it
According to WHO data, there are high malarial locations in more than 30 countries. Therefore, this vaccine could protect more than 25 million children from malaria annually.
How much is your immunity against covid? Now you can test it with this immunity test kit.
Anti-Malaria Vaccine: World's first anti-malarial vaccine is being prepared; know how effective the vaccine is.
Dr Pradeep Mahajan (Regenerative Medicine Researcher, Mumbai) explains epilepsy and therapeutic Regenerative Medicine strategy.
Cancer treatment breakthrough news: During the clinical trial, all patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for about six months, and their tumours disappeared.
Are you troubled by obesity? Then here is a new medicine to reduce weight.
Most people receiving treatment for breast cancer prefer treatment with PHESGO compared to IV administration.
People with asthma were found to have a 21 per cent greater risk for obesity than those without asthma.
Remdesivir, sold under the brand name Veklury, has become the first COVID-19 treatment approved for children less than 12 years of age.
