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Mucormycosis (black fungus), which is primarily affecting people recovering from COVID, has been declared an epidemic in Rajasthan, officials said on Wednesday. Currently, the state has around 100 black fungus patients and a separate ward has been made at Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur for their treatment. Mucormycosis has been notified as an epidemic and a notifiable disease in the state under the Rajasthan Epidemic Act 2020, according to a notification issued by state s Principal Health Secretary Akhil Arora. He said the step was taken to ensure integrated and coordinated treatment of black fungus and the coronavirus. According to experts, people with diabetes are more prone to getting the black fungus infection. ....
Read more about Govt ramps up availability of Amphotericin B to fight Covid complication on Business Standard. Amid a sudden increase in demand observed in some states for Amphotericin B which is being prescribed by physicians to patients suffering from Mucormycosis ....
The government is engaging with the drug manufacturers to ramp up the production of an antifungal drug used for the treatment of mucormycosis, the Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry said, as a rash of cases of rare black fungus infection have been reported among people either recovered or recovering from COVID-19. With a spike in the cases of COVID-19 in the country, doctors have been reporting a rare infection mucormycosis, also called as black fungus, among people recovered from COVID-19. The infection is caused by exposure to mucor mould and it affects the sinuses, the brain and the lungs and can be life-threatening. ....
email article Its first step is a Dear Manufacturer letter dated March 5 to companies that process and sell baby foods. It seeks to remind them of their existing responsibilities to consider chemical hazards that may be present in foods when conducting your hazard analysis. The letter went on to list a series of regulations and guidance documents related to toxic substances in food products, and particularly baby and toddler foods. It included a veiled threat as well, noting that the agency had obtained a court order in January to halt sales of one company s fruit juice products found to contain high levels of arsenic and patulin, a mycotoxin. ....
email article The addition of an immunomodulating agent to pegloticase (Krystexxa) among patients with uncontrolled gout significantly improved response rates, a systematic literature review found. In a cohort of patients whose gout had been refractory to conventional therapy, co-treatment with pegloticase plus an immunomodulator was associated with an overall response rate of 82.9%, reported Robert T. Keenan, MD, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues. That rate was markedly higher than the 42% that had been observed for pegloticase monotherapy in clinical trials, Keenan and co-authors noted in their study online in Pegloticase is approved for patients with chronic gout who have inadequate serum urate control with xanthine oxidase inhibitors at the highest medically appropriate dose or in whom these drugs are contraindicated. ....