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Five new homeopathic drugs developed by Indian doctors at Nair Hospital sh
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi/Mumbai [India], June 7 (ANI/PR Newswire): In breakthrough research by Indian homeopath Dr Rajesh Shah in collaboration with clinical pharmacologists at Mumbai's BYL Nair Hospital, five new homeopathic drugs have shown anti-fungal and anti-bacterial effects in a laboratory model. Th
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Rahul Gandhi again targets Centre's efforts to curb black fungus
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): Expressing concern over a rise in black fungus or Mucormycosis cases in the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday again targeted the central government on its efforts to curb the rise in fungal infection.
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Deconstructing black fungus: Experts talk about myths, misconceptions arou
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): Mucormycosis, previously known as zygomycosis and sometimes termed as black fungus, is a serious fungal infection, found generally in people with less ability to fight infection. As the cases of black fungus infection continue to rise in India, doctors and sc
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Black Fungus: Owing to costs of treatment, poor families stand helpless wh
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Soon after the battle for Covid-19 is over, recovered patients are falling prey to mucormycosis in huge numbers, which leads to fungal infection. The Centre declared it as a notifiable disease while 11 states have already declared it as an epidemic.
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Black fungus treatment should start early, drug availability should improv
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): With rise in the number of mucormycosis cases in the national capital, doctors have urged caution and said availability of drugs should improve.
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High Immunity, proper Hygiene key safeguards against all fungal infections
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): Dr Randeep Guleria, Director of All India Institue of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Monday said that people with low immunity are the ones affected by mucormycosis (black fungus) adding that maintenance of hygiene is the major safeguard against fungal inf
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Drug used to treat black fungus was available in limited supply,now ramped
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Amid the rising cases of Mucormycosis or 'black fungus', the Union Health Ministry on Saturday said the availability of Amphotericin-B, the key drug to treat the deadly disease is now being increased and the ministry is in touch with five additional manufa
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Black fungus: Centre to ramp up production, availability of Amphotericin-B
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday said the Central government will make proactive efforts for significantly ramping up domestic production of Amphotericin-B drug, an anti-fungal drug for the treatment of black fungus disease.
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Newly identified antibody can be targeted by HIV vaccines: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 20 (ANI): A newly-identified group of antibodies that binds to a coating of sugars on the outer shell of HIV is effective in neutralizing the virus and points to a novel vaccine approach that could also potentially be used against SARS-CoV-2 and fungal pathogens, researc
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Here's how ThempCo Botanicals is revolutionizing the cosmetics industry
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI/SRV Media): Seeing the harmful effects of cosmetics and striving to bring about change, ThempCo Botanicals was founded in 2019 to provide environmentally friendly everyday products with a reduced carbon footprint.
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Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists, and Leprologists rec
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI/PNN): "As the 'red-faced' young girl entered my consulting chamber, my diagnosis was already done before she sat on the revolving stool meant for examining patients. As expected the redness on her face was accompanied by a growth of hair too. As anticipated, s
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Genes in some bats change due to deadly white-nose syndrome
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): Scientists during a recent study have found genetic variations between bats killed by white-nose syndrome and the bats that survived. This suggests that the surviving individuals rapidly evolved to resist the fungal disease.
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