Delhi HC: No customs duties on rare disease medicinesDelhi High Court clarifies no custom duties on medicines for rare diseases, ensuring expedited clearance and access to necessary treatments...
04 Mar, 2024, 09.05 PM IST
Drug discovery startup Peptris raises $1 million funding from Speciale Invest, othersUsing advanced AI, Peptris sifts through large data sets to identify and develop potential drug candidates quickly and cost-effectively, re...
19 Dec, 2023, 07.35 PM IST
Govt exempts import duty on drugs, food needed for special medical purposes"The Central Government has given full exemption from basic customs duty on all drugs and Food for Special Medical Purposes imported for pe...
31 Mar, 2023, 11.16 AM IST
Sops likely for R&D on rare condition drugsIncentives could be offered to the private sector in the form of faster approvals and an extended period of exclusivity for orphan drugs. S...
28 Feb, 2023, 11.30 PM IST
Indian researchers developing treatment for rare genetic disorder 'Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy'The current therapeutic options available to treat DMD are minimal and highly expensive treatment with costs shooting up to Rs 2-3 crore pe...
08 Jan, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Salaam Venky Twitter Review: Kajol and Vishal Jethwa's film reviewed by emotional netizens. Here's what they saidRevathy's Salaam Venky, starring Kajol and Vishal Jethwa, hits theaters today. It is based on Shrikant Murthy's book The Last Hurray which ...
09 Dec, 2022, 04.23 PM IST
Will take action if digital crowd funding platform for rare diseases not made operational: HCThe Delhi high court said despite specific directions on January 28 that the digital crowd funding platform be made operational by March 31...
14 Jul, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
Govt notifies over 3,500 jobs for persons with benchmark disabilitiesThe Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities notified 3,566 posts on January 4 in central government establishments as suitab...
15 Jan, 2021, 09.00 PM IST
Patek Philippe timepiece, with 2 dials & 20 functions, fetches $31 mn at Christie'sThe watch beat the previous record, set by a Daytona Rolex that once belonged to Paul Newman.
12 Nov, 2019, 05.59 PM IST
Rao IIT: No.1 IIT Coaching classes with Brand Capital's partnershipThis story is the journey of a business from the sleepy little town of Kota in Rajasthan to a nerve center and Mecca of coaching classes fo...
14 May, 2019, 05.48 PM IST
- Modified CRISPR technique treats diseases without cutting DNA
New York, Dec 8 (IANS) In what could remove a major hurdle to using gene editing technologies to treat human diseases, scientists have crea...
08 Dec, 2017, 04.57 PM IST
Air India plays angel to 3 Bangladeshi patients, gives free ticketsThe move came after an appeal was made to Air India & its CMD by a Mumbai-based neurosurgeon Alok Sharma, who has offered to treat Abdus (2...
02 Apr, 2017, 10.34 PM IST
How a Bengaluru lab is trying to fix the gene as therapy for hereditary health problemsAs Narayana Nethralaya is fronting it, the focus is on ocular (eye) diseases, though Ghosh’s own area of work is in muscular dystrophy.
23 Apr, 2016, 10.58 AM IST
Gene editing tool treats muscular dystrophy in adult mammalResearchers from Duke University in US used CRISPR to treat an adult mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
01 Jan, 2016, 01.20 PM IST
New app allows people with arm paralysis to use smartphonesThe app, named Dowell, can assist those with muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke and other ailments that restri...
23 Apr, 2015, 05.42 PM IST
12-year-old awarded for disable-friendly innovationBhati has three patents for three types of circular chess boards to his name. The three boards collectively make 100 chess variants.
22 Nov, 2014, 01.53 PM IST
New technique to deliver HIV drug to the brainResearchers, including an Indian origin scientist, have developed a revolutionary new technique to deliver and fully release an anti-HIV dr...
21 Apr, 2013, 05.40 PM IST