Tag: Drugs

Cuttack: In a major crackdown on the increasing drug racket in Cuttack, the Manglabag police arrested a 25-year-old drug dealer from Maachhua Bazar area on Monday. Police said, 28 grams of  brown sugar has been seized from the accused, identified as Munna aka Manoj Kahali. The market value of the contraband will be around Rs 2 […]

Bargarh: The district police has arrested nine persons for their alleged involvement in illegal drugs trade. Bargarh SDPO Suresh Kumar Nayak informed that they have seized large quantities of cough syrups and drug pills during the raids. A special squad formed under the instruction of Bargarh SP had arrested the nine persons during raids conducted […]

Bhubaneswar: Probing into the death of Asutosh Mohanty alias Rishi, an engineering student who died on May 6 this year, the commissionerate police today said they have received the post mortem and the viscera reports of the deceased. “We have received post mortem and the viscera reports of the deceased. We will consult the doctors […]

Bhubaneswar: After keeping the investigation into the death of Asutosh Mohanty alias Rishi, an engineering student, under wraps for over six months, the commissionerate police have reopened the case with a fresh investigation. While police had interrogated three friends of Rishi yesterday, another friend Subham Das was interrogated by the police. Talking to media persons […]

New York: If you have been hit by the winter cold and are thinking about taking medicines that relieve your aches, pains and congestion, be careful. Those may also put your heart at risk, the American Heart Association has warned. A study has showed that both decongestants and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), found in many cold […]

New York: Researchers have identified cancer drugs that might be repurposed to treat infections caused by human papillomaviruses, or HPVs. HPV infections caused an estimated 266,000 deaths from cervical cancer worldwide in 2012, according to the World Health Organization. Routine screening by Pap smears or HPV DNA tests has reduced death rates in developed countries […]

Chicago: Just days after the US city of Chicago took eight online retailers to court for illegally selling e-cigarettes to underage residents, federal agencies confirmed astonishing increases in nationwide youth use of e-cigarettes. According to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, released on Thursday by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centres for […]

New Delhi: Delhi police have busted an international drug cartel and arrested three foreign nationals from capital’s Saket area. Heroin worth Rs 25 crore has been seized from the accused, police said on Saturday. The accused have been identified as Esmatullah (40), Khalilullah (22), from Afghanistan and Victor Osondu (37) from Nigeria. Deputy Commissioner of […]

Los Angeles: In a promising find, a team of biologists at the University of California-Los Angeles has discovered thousands of four-and five-drug combinations of antibiotics that are more effective at killing harmful bacteria than the prevailing views suggested. The findings, published in the journal npj Systems Biology and Applications, could be a major step toward […]

London: Drugs currently undergoing development to treat anaemia — lack of blood — could be repurposed to help prevent people with Type-2 diabetes from developing heart failure, according to a new research. Researchers found that after a heart attack, a protein called HIF acts to help heart cells survive. In people with diabetes, fats accumulate […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh law enforcers have arrested 22,000 people since launching a crackdown on drug trafficking last month, the country’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Monday. He made the remarks at a press conference in capital Dhaka organised on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Tuesday, […]

New York: Excess belly fat in older adults could be linked to inflammation, a finding that can help develop drugs that could enable elderly people burn fat, and decrease their odds of developing chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and strokes, researchers led by one of Indian-origin have found. Older adults, regardless of body […]

London: A drug that eases the effects of jetlag could help prevent painful side effects from cancer medicines, new research has found. The study in rats, published in the Journal of Pineal Research, showed that the drug – known as melatonin – blocked harmful effects of chemotherapy on nerve health. “These results are promising, especially […]

New Delhi: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, whose life was caught in a web of drugs and legal hassles, says as a father, he does not want his son to be like him. The son of late veteran actors Sunil Dutt and Nargis, Sanjay fought a battle with drugs and went to rehab as well as served […]

Moscow: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) received Russias recently proposed national plan on the fight against abuse of performance enhancing drugs and is already studying the material, the international agency said. “WADA can confirm that we have received Russia’s National Anti-Doping Strategy and we are currently in the process of reviewing it,” WADA said in […]