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CSIR touts dubious ‘Ayurveda’ product for diabetes
At 6 am on September 13, the CSIR handle on X.com published the following post about an “anti-diabetic medicine” called either “Daiba 250” or “Diabe 250”, developed at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM): Its “key features”, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayurveda, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Diabe-250, drug patent, Indian Institute of Integrated Mecicine, Innoveda Biological Solutions, Ministry of AYUSH, nutritional supplement, Salacia, type 2 diabetes, α-glucosidase inhibitors
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On the Nature feature about the Sarafs, a rare disease, and time
Heidi Ledford has a tragic and powerful story published yesterday in Nature, about a team of scientists at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology racing to develop a CRISPR treatment for Uditi Saraf, a young girl whose brain was … Continue reading
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Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, FENIB, FSSAI, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Ministry of AYUSH, Natelco, neuroserpin, rare diseases, Rema Nagarajan, Uditi Saraf
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Government by Supreme Court
On February 27, a bench of the Supreme Court upbraided Patanjali Ayurved and its chairman Acharya Balkrishna for continuing to disparage systems of medicine other than Ayurveda (technically, what it calls Ayurveda) and claiming its products offer “permanent relief” from … Continue reading
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Tagged Acharya Balkrishna, Advertising Standards Council of India, Ayurveda, Baba Ramdev, Indian Medical Association, Ministry of AYUSH, Patanjali Ayurved, pharmacovigilance, Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, Ritwick Dutta, Supreme Court of India, TN Godavarman
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