INDIA: INDIAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP DRUG MADE FROM KEEZHANELLI PLANT TO HELP TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS-B VIRUS

Record ID: 990142

  • Title: INDIA: INDIAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP DRUG MADE FROM KEEZHANELLI PLANT TO HELP TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS-B VIRUS
  • Date: 19th July 1999
  • Summary: MADRAS, TAMIL NADU, INDIA (JULY 19, 1999) 1. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 0.06 2. CU OF SIGN FOR UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 0.10 3. SV OF A RESEARCHER TESTING SAMPLE ON MACHINE 0.19 4. CU OF A MEDICAL MACHINE WITH TEST TUBES OF DRUG SAMPLES 0.28 5. BLOOD SAMPLE BEING TAKEN FROM A HBV CARRIER 6. SV OF SCIENTIST TAKING BLOOD SAMPLE OF WOMAN 0.34 7. CU OF WOMAN 0.38 8. CU BLOOD BEING TAKEN 0.42 9. CU OF SCIENTIST 0.47 10. SV/CU RESEARCHER PUTTING INJECTING BLOOD SAMPLE INTO TEST TUBE (2 SHOTS) 0.58 11. SV MACHINE TESTING SAMPLES 1.09 12. CU FACE OF RESEARCHER 1.13 14. CU COMPUTER PRINTOUT OF RESULTS BEING PRINTED 1.21 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) S.P.THYAGARAJAN, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY SAYING "The initial clinical trials reported in Lancet had 78 carriers and we found in a month's treatment 56 percent of these carriers have completely lost the virus after the treatment which hitherto is not reported because once a carrier acquires the virus, he will remain life long a carrier. There is no chance virus going of him without any treatment." 1.52 16. SV SCIENTIST WIEIGHTING OUT INDIAN PLANT FOR FORMULATION OF THE DRUG 1.57 17. CU OF THE PREPARED PLANT "KIZHANELLI" (PHYLLUNTHUS AMARUS) 2.01 18. SV SCIENTIST PREPARING PLANT SAMPLE 2.06 19. CU OF RESEARCHER 2.11 20. SV RESEARCHER FORMULATING PLANT DRUG PELLETS IN MACHINE 2.21 21. CU DRUGS BEING REMOVED FROM MACHINE 2.25 22. CU FACE OF SCIENTIST 2.29 23. CU OF DRUG TABLETS 2.33 24. CU OF MEDICINAL PLANT "KIZHANELLI" (PHYLLUNTHUS AMARUS) GROWING (2 SHOTS) 2.42 25. WIDE OF PLANTS GROWING IN PLANTATION 2.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MADRAS, TAMIL NADU, INDIA
  • Country: India
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