A bio-pharmaceutical company on Sunday said that an oral powder form of HIV drug Viread will be available soon after getting approval from US food and administration (FDA). This drug is expected to extend the benefit to millions of children affected by HIV.
Norbert Bischofberger, the executive vice president, research and development and chief scientific officer at Gilead Sciences said that there is a critical need of such HIV drug which is heat-stable, taste-neutral pediatric formulations that do not require cold storage where mother to child transmission is high and availability …

The Bihar Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, a senior minister of BJP has reportedly has threatened the government Junior Doctors of the state who are planning to go on strike from January 31.
However, he has taken back his words of threatening against doctors when severe criticism forced him to take back his words.
While answering questions to a television, he told that he would fulfill whatever the demands they have and he would seek forgiveness with folded hands if he was unable to fulfill it and nobody could stop hospitals …

Scientists at United States have said that the general health of the children could able to predict the health of their parents in their future.
It said that health conditions like high blood pressure and cholesterol levels of children could able to predict the chances of having diabetes and heart diseases of their parents in future.
The study involved about 519 families at Ohio and the study results were published in the journal “Journal of Peadiatrics.”
The study was conducted on children of 12 year old including their weight, height, blood pressure …

India submitted a report and the health ministry on Friday said that there are no cases of total drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). This report was followed by the declaration of total drug resistant tuberculosis cases by P.D.Hinduja hospital.
Following the report of the hospital, the government organized a central team comprising senior medical officer, Central TB division; consultant (drug resistant TB) including national programme officer (laboratory) and the team went to Mumbai on Tuesday.
The team reported its conclusion to the health ministry on Frdiay.
The report said that out of the 12 reported …

A recent research and a non-invasive test at South Korea have revealed that knowing the sex of the unborn child is possible by merely a blood test on mother.
The research is also having the advantage of finding the sex of the foetus even at the stage of fifth or sixth week of pregnancy.
The team at Cheil General Hospital in Seoul, South Korea found that by measuring the ratios of two enzymes extracted from the blood of the pregnant mother could tell positively the sex of the unborn child even by …