Sushmita Panda

Novartis plans to present results from this trial at an upcoming medical meeting and share them with regulatory agencies including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus, that can be transmitted to humans through contacts with someone who is infectious

Bengaluru joins Singapore; Cambridge, England; Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Shanghai; Madison, Wisconsin; Hayward, California; and San Diego as Illumina Global Capability Centers.

Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi and Somalia continued to report large outbreaks of over 10,000 suspected or confirmed cases, with Ethiopia, Haiti, Mozambique and Zimbabwe adding to the tally in 2023.

While traditional MDR-TB treatments can last up to 20 months with severe side effects, BPaLM regimen can cure the drug-resistant TB in just six months with high treatment success rate, the Ministry stated.

Despite abortion being legal in India for the last 50 years, awareness about legality, safety and availability of abortion is quite low, Manning told Financial Express.com.

A 2022 study published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics journal revealed that children reported hyperinflammatory shock with clinical features similar to those of Kawasaki disease (KD) after COVID-19 infection in 2020.

Mpox Cases in India: The government recommended the isolation of confirmed cases, as well as contact tracing to minimise the risk of transmission.

The Health Ministry on Monday said the previously suspected mpox case has tested positive and it has verified as a travel-related infection.

The WHO Director-General declared the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries a Public health emergency of international concern on 14 August 2024.