Washington, February 28 – A bipartisan US Senate panel criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for delays and shifting standards that witnesses said are hindering treatments for rare diseases, warning that “time is the most precious commodity” for families and that “patients with rare...
21st century cures act
accelerated approval pathway
clinical data
clinical trials
drug development
fda approval process
food and drug administration
orphan drug act
patientadvocacy
pompe disease
rare diseases
real-world evidence
regulatory flexibility
senate committee on aging
troriluzole
Chennai, February 24 The Madras High Court has directed the Directorate of Medical Education and Research here not to view all organ donors with suspicion, and has directed it to grant permission for transplantation to a patient with chronic kidney disease stage 5, who received the organ from...
authorization committee
chronic kidney disease
court order
dme (directorate of medical education and research)
family donation
healthcare
human organ donation
madras high court
medical ethics
medical law
organ donation
patientadvocacy
stage 5 kidney disease
tamil nadu
transplantation
Kochi, February 21 – Usha Josephkutty (51), a native of Punnapra in the Alappuzha district, who had been living with a surgical instrument inside her abdomen for five years due to alleged negligence during a procedure at the Government Medical College Hospital in Vandanam, has successfully...
abdominal pain
alappuzha district
associate professor
forensic examination
government medical college hospital
hysterectomy
kerala
kerala health department
kochi
medical negligence
nurse
patientadvocacy
political controversy
surgical error
surgical instrument removal
vandanam