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Chennai: The Indian Council of Medical Analysis (ICMR) is sitting on a proposal for a scientific trial of an reasonably priced and time-tested anti-inflammatory arthritis drug that has the potential to forestall hundreds of deaths because of Covid-19.
Indomethacin has been used to forestall cytokine storm an irregular immune response that kills Covid-19 sufferers in individuals with different well being situations. The drug prices Rs 5 a capsule, whereas Tocilizumab, a drug now used to deal with cytokine storm, prices Rs 60,000 per dose.
Chennai-based kidney transplant surgeon Dr Rajan Ravichandran, who used indomethacin on his transplant sufferers first in 1989 to forestall cytokine storms, wrote to ICMR and its counterparts within the US and the UK on April 29 suggesting a scientific trial. Whereas the UK division of well being and social care wrote again saying the proposal has been forwarded to its Therapeutic Taskforce, ICMR is but to behave on it.
ICMR director basic Dr Balram Bhargava advised TOI that the council has obtained about 185 such proposals and requests on using totally different pharma merchandise. “ICMR, together with division of science and expertise, division of biotechnology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Analysis are wanting into them one after the other,” he mentioned.
Within the US, in the meantime, medical doctors have discovered the drug to be efficient in some 60 Covid-19 sufferers, usually higher than hydroxycholoroquine. Dr Jonathan Leibowitz, a major care doctor in Brooklyn, used it on his sufferers after his colleague Dr Robert Rothstein referred a 2006 examine that confirmed the drug was efficient in opposition to human SARS-CoV and canine coronavirus. When one other colleague of his, Dr Aline Benjamin, examined optimistic for Covid-19, Dr Leibowitz requested her to check out the drug.
Dr Benjamin later mentioned she had a dramatic reversal of signs cough and fever after one dose of indomethacin. “If we had used indomethacin earlier, many sufferers wouldn’t have gone to the emergency room,” Dr Leibowitz mentioned in a latest interview with Medical Replace On-line.
Dr Rothstein wrote within the British Medical Journal on Could 17: “We’ve got discovered that remedy with indomethacin relieves the ache, stops coughing, and results in a sense of basic wellbeing. Sufferers report ‘not feeling sick anymore’ … We’ve got not seen this helpful impact with hydroxychloroquine remedy or with ibuprofen and we’ve got shaped the impression that it’s particularly associated to indomethacin.”
Dr Leibowitz, in an e-mail to TOI, mentioned indomethacin “appears to have a transparent optimistic impact and desires additional investigation,” and indicated it was not being given the significance it deserves. “Medication has been invaded by large companies and refuses to think about medication that don’t generate income they don’t seem to be attractive (whereas) trials are targeted on Remdesivir and plasma, each of which, whereas having some results, are clearly not penicillin.”
Dr Ravichandran mentioned it could possibly be used on Covid-19 sufferers as a repurpose drug, however a largescale scientific trial is crucial, given the affordability and the promising outcomes a number of research on the drug have proven. A 1992 examine discovered the effectiveness of indomethacin in transplant sufferers that suffer cytokine storm after administration of anti-rejection drug OKT3, one thing Dr Ravichandran had recorded in 1989. One other laboratory examine in China has discovered the drug introduced down the viral load in SARS sufferers.
“The drug must be used early to save lots of lives,” mentioned Dr Ravichandran. “Going by preliminary anecdotal proof, this will save lives and switch many sufferers asymptomatic inside 48 hours, in order that they could possibly be despatched residence to cut back the stress on hospitals and remedy price.”

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