A new study shows GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide may help reduce heavy drinking. A trial found weekly injections cut heavy drinking days by h...

Eyestem Research has secured approval from India's CDSCO to begin Phase 2 clinical trials for its Eyecyte-RPE cell therapy. This treatment ...

India's ICMR will study the efficacy of Metformin and Inositol drugs in improving fertility and birth outcomes in PCOS women. Despite wides...

With an aim to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the health supplements -- ImmunoSEB and ProbioSEB CSC3 -- in patients suffering from COV...

According to the ICMR, the intervention arm of the trial will include baricitinib and the control arm will receive local standard of care. ...

Though less reliable than clinical trials, real-world data can tell us how well vaccines work in some parts of the population excluded from...

Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna recently announced the first interim efficacy analysis of their Covid-19 vaccines. The financial markets cheere...

Nine other clinical trials involving Siddha medicine either as stand-alone or adjunct with allopathic medicine that were taken up throughou...

Dr Reddy’s had approached the Subject Expert committee (SEC) that advises the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on applications seeki...

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Balram Bhargava told ET that clinical protocols will be updated after discussion...

Human challenge study in the development of a vaccine refers to exposing healthy volunteers to a pathogen and then monitoring them in a cli...

Recovery Trial in the UK found that the steroid dexamethasone reduces deaths by one-third in patients hospitalised with severe respiratory ...

The scientists said these drugs should not be used to treat COVID-19 patients outside of clinical trials until results from randomised clin...

The Mumbai-based company had received approval from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) last month to conduct clinical trials of Favipi...

An RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...

RCTs, by creating treatment (those who get the development programme) and control groups (those who don’t), create further ethical problems...

Practicing the 5,000-year-old Indian meditative practice, yoga, for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in ...