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RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...lans for in keeping the vast opportunities for the segment offers. The anti-AIDS drug segment also witnessed the entry of many more pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuti...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

... Pharmaceutical Industries entered the antismoking segment with its "Smoquit" (buproprion 150mg tabs) recently. The medication in Smoquit has been used for over a decade as an antidepressant, albeit at a different dose. The Rs. 13.50-per tablet priced Smoquit, the first pharmacotherapy ever available for the...

A rare complication of bowel disease

...n of a tube in the throat to bypass the obstructed segment of the airway. Airway inflammation like this can even be life-threatening, say the researchers. It's a rare complication of IBD,but is important for physicians....

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

... Subiksha, the first and the largest player in the segment triggered the discount war. The other followed with discounts to counter threats from Subiksha....

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...ncer. The left side of the colon includes the last segment of the large intestine. The right side is higher up the gut and attached to the small intestine. The results of the study need to be confirmed by other research before a recommendation can be made regarding dietary calcium and colon cancer. The stu...

A new recovery for heart attacks

...s that were involved in the switching process. One segment had been found to be reliable for increasing the amount of HIF in the cell. Under normal circumstances HIF is constantly made and broken down. However researchers have found that under low-oxygen levels, HIF loses a hydroxyl (oxygen and hydrogen) gro...

Nicholas buys ICI’s drug business for Rs 70 c

...ia cardiovascular market. The other players in the segment are Cipla, Zydus Cadila, Torrent Pharmaceuticals and Sun Pharmaceuticals. Mr Piramal said, “This acquisition is significant for our presence in high-growth segments such as cardiovascular, central nervous system and critical care segment. The niche ...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

... loss and for the prevention of weight gain by the segment of population who is in the normal weight range."...

Novel way to fight cancer

...ma, then exposed them in the laboratory to a small segment of the patient's tumor. The cells learned to recognize the tumor fragment as a foreign body and fight it. Additionally the cells also multiplied, providing enough cells to replace the patient's existing immune system, which had proven ineffective at ...

Viagra Used More By Young Men

...ing impotence pills but rather the fastest growing segment of Viagra (sildenafil) // users are men between ages 18 to 55. The study examined Viagra use among 5 million insured males, ages 18 and older, from 1998 to 2002. The overall, use of Viagra increased 84 percent in the study group, with men older than...

Indian Scientists Make Wide-Ranging Analysis And Annotation Of X Chromosome

... did a detailed study of the pseudogenes as a main segment of the study. The study also did a widespread analysis of the protein sequences, and post-translational modifications. The results were taken into the Human Protein Reference Database developed indigenously by the institute. The results of the stu...

Analyzing The Side Effects Of Sirolimus Stents

...pinion that Paradoxic vasoconstriction in a vessel segment not subjected to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty barotrauma may be due to diffusion of the antiproliferative drug from the stent to the peri-stent region, inducing endothelial dysfunction. However some are of the opinion that inadequat...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

...licate itself and elude the immune system. Then, a segment of the DNA is reproduced in a process called PCR, or "polymerase chain reaction," and enzymes are released that "digest," or cut that DNA at certain points. "The way the gene is cut or not cut depends on which flu gene you have," Larson said. "Once ...

Mystery of nacrolepsy uncovered

...able to move.// Now researchers have identified a segment of DNA they believe is responsible for narcolepsy in a breakthrough being hailed as the first significant step forward in understanding the condition.The genes that have been discovered affect the regulation of the basic process of sleep.Juliette Far...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...s who would benefit. Gelber said a quality-of-life segment of the study showed the side effects from chemo are usually temporary and go away after the therapy ends....

New !! Birth Control Option For Men

...ies sperm instead all they need to do is cut out a segment of vas. As a result, a clamp is placed across the vas.// The clamp is the size of a grain of rice and it clicks on and prevents sperm from passing through. In a study of 300 men, there was less pain and fewer complications such as swelling and blee...

Drugs Manufacturers Capitalizing On The Surge In Demand For Bone Health Care

...on shows that bone health is set to become a major segment of the supplements and functional foods market. Th...w supplement products will be needed to expand the segment significantly. Recent research has indicated that silicon helps prevent osteoporosis and can be effe...

Latest Research Shows That Multivitamins Might Not Prevent Infections In All Elderly

...cotland today, raising questions for a significant segment of the supplement-taking population. // Studies in the past have shown that when taking vitamin E supplements, elderly people in nursing homes were 20 per cent less likely to get a cold and also had fewer colds over the study period than a placebo g...

Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

...on the healthcare system to meet the needs of this segment of society. The prime minister was conferred with an honorary fellowship of AIIMS for his outstanding contribution as an economist and a visionary statesman. He unveiled the logo of the golden jubilee celebrations. Manmohan Singh also gave away m...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...fth of the smokers quit and it was found that this segment had improved gum health as compared to the group that did not quit. Dr Philip Preshaw a clinical lecturer in Periodontology with Newcastle University's School of Dental Sciences and the leader of the research tem observed that quitting smoking incre...

Palmist Claims to Diagnose Ailments Looking At Your Palm

...he ear, nose and lungs," he said. "The ophthalmic segment is revealed in the mount of Apollo, and the mount of Moon predicts abdominal and urinary problems." However, Mohanan is yet to make use of his talent commercially and instead takes classes in palmistry for those interested. "More than 1,000 peopl...

Aurobindo gets U.S. FDA approval for Cephalexin

...round $80 million. The company is a leader in this segment in several markets in the world and is looking forward to market its products in the US....

Dentists Not Lured By Golden Hello Scheme In The UK

...hortage of NHS personnel has failed for the dental segment in the Scottish area of Lothians, it was reported. //The scheme has allocated a ￡10,000 grant per dentist to enable them to move to areas where there is a sever shortage of dentists and surgeries. It has emerged not that only about five dentists have...

US life expectancy climbs to a new high

...oldest of the Baby Boomers and the fastest-growing segment of the population. With their population expected to swell from 29 million in 2004 to 40 million in 2014, their health may well be an indication for the rest of the nation, providing important clues for future health programs and policies for the ...

A sharp increased in senior citizens: set to outpace children.

...en under the age of 15. Also by 2031, the elderly segment of the population will range between 8.9 million and 9.4 million, while the number of children would range between 4.8 million and 6.6 million. "This rapid aging is projected to last until 2031, when seniors would account for between 23 per cent and...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

...lls. Further, the human Rev3L gene is located in a segment of chromosome 6 which is home for multiple tumor s...ncluding a number of leukemias and lymphomas. This segment is associated with chromosomal instabilities in this particular region of chromosome 6. "Although i...

Ossur Acquires the U.S. Orthopaedics Company

...sur a leading edge in ligament braces, the largest segment of the braces and support market, and accelerate Ossur's strategic initiative to advance in the orthopaedics market with improved operating efficiencies and other synergies. Innovation Sports, based in Foothill Ranch, California, established in 198...

Manage Stress To Beat Heart Disease

...d psychologist.To download APA's pre-packaged news segment on heart health or to capture mind/body health sound bites, please visit http://apahelpcenter.mediaroom.com.Contact: Peter Wilsonpwilson@apa.org202-336-5910American Psychological Association Practice Directorate...

Better Communication With FDA Could Speed Up Approval Of New Drugs

...essed. Dr Jenkins admitted that the communications segment of the FDA had room for improvement, but "some of the burden relies on the sponsors to make sure they understand what is being told." The report also noted that smaller companies had a tough time getting regulatory approval for their products, "Large...

Change In Lifestyle Recommended To Avoid Cardiac Disease

...nd the increasing incidence of the disease in this segment will affect the economic balance of the country. The productive life cycle is slowly getting affected,' Khanolkar said. 'When the younger generation contributing to the country's economy is increasingly affected by the disease while they are in the...

Just Had Bowel Surgery? Chew Gum For A Speedy Recovery

...ad undergone sigmoid colon resection (removal of a segment of the large intestine) for the study. The patients were divided into the experimental and control group. The experimental group participants were asked to chew sugarless gum thrice a day after the surgery. The control group members, on the other han...

Mexi-Plan by Health Net, Expected To Be a Boon for Uninsured Latinos

...it and will cater to the needs of this underserved segment of the population. ...

A Detail Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer

...oth pathways from being initiated. Inside the LARG segment there is a PDZ domain which when introduced into the tumor cell, it binds up all available CD44 and EGFR, leaving them unavailable to initiate the deadly twin molecular pathways. In the future, LARG could be utilized as a drug target leading to a new...

46-Year-Old Canada Man Donates A Part Of His Liver To A Complete Stranger

...nerative capacity. It is the only organ in which a segment can be removed for transplantation into another human body; enabling both the donor and recipient survive. Following the surgery, Gosling who deserves the credit of being the first Canadian to donate a part of his liver to an unknown recipient, has...

Study Offers Hope In Prevention Of Facial Paralysis

... segments of the nerve. Dehiscence in the tympanic segment was then further characterized using the oval window and cochleariform process as landmarks. The presence of cholesteatoma directly adherent to the nerve was noted as were any fistulae to either the cochlea or semi-circular canals. Statistical analys...

India's Economic Boom Pack To Waste Children Life

...uarantee that its benefits will percolate to every segment of society,’ V. of Economic and social issues make the problem big. Many of India's countryside superstitious mothers, only begin to breastfeed their babies three days after giving birth, thinking that the yellow colostrom, what a mother produces ...

India Set To Become Hub For Clinical Trials

...tching the growth and performance of India in this segment of business. There are positive signals and reports which justify the trends for pharmaceutical sponsors to look seriously at India for carrying forward their drug development intitiatives,' notes Dr Umakanta Sahoo, Head, India Operations, Chiltern I...

Kerala To Have More Medical Seats

...used to develop a model hospital in every Assembly segment in a regulated manner. Explaining that a total amount of Rs.20 lakh would be spent on each of these hospital, she said that they would be provided with X-ray, operation theatre and other basic amenities. The health minister also stated that the gov...

YES Bank To Set Up India Health Care Fund

...g sectors, the bank also plans to enter the sports segment by providing structured finance products for building stadiums and training centres. Source:PTI News...

Dr Reddys Launches New Drug In Its Urology Segment

...he company consolidate its position in the urology segment which has over 10 products in the urology segment,...rket data is valued at Rs 27 crore and the urology segment is estimated at Rs 65.08 crore. Alfuzosin provides rapid relief from signs and symptoms of Benign P...

New Technique Identifies Unknown Genetic Mutations That Can Cause Cancer

...cine, identifying each of the team's peptides as a segment of a specific protein. The analysis showed that many of the peptides came from tyrosine kinases. Scanning this list, Druker picked out five as likely suspects. Druker's team then introduced into their leukemia cells five segments of RNA that each s...

Boom In Sexually Transmitted Infections In Senior Scottish Citizens

...transmitted diseases had more than trebled in this segment of the population. Infections like chlamydia and herpes are also rising rapidly in senior citizens in Scotland. Health workers feel older citizens are ignoring the safe sex message. The rise in infections is attributed to an increase in the numb...

Recurrence Of Stroke More Common In Mexican American

...lained that Mexican Americans, the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, have an increased risk of stroke as compared to non-Hispanic whites, but the researchers also explained that they have not investigated the risk of recurrence and its effect on mortality has not been investigated until now. Th...

Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers

... gene – to get 130,000 sections for analysis. Each segment was amplified through a process called polymerase chain reaction, purified, and its sequence determined using more than three million biochemical reactions. The sequences were fed through computer software that matches up normal sequences with those ...

Laws That Make Parental Consent Mandatory Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior

...e likely to reduce risky sexual behavior// in this segment of the society. Jonathan Klick, the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, and Thomas Stratmann, professor of economics at George Mason University examined the prevailing rates of gonorrhea before concluding that laws seeking parental consent may play a...

New Tool for Understanding Estrogen-Fueled Breast Cancer

...gments influenced by the ER. "cis" refers to a DNA segment that regulates a gene’s activity in response to a signal from outside the gene (while "trans" refers to a factor that acts on DNA); and "ome" -- from the Greek word for manager -- refers to the full set of such segments, as "genome" refers to all the...

Perception Stabilized – Thanks to Your Brains

...ly hidden by tree trunks in a forest, we can still segment the visual scene and properly interpret the individual features and group them together into objects," he says. However, even though recognizing that deer is effortless for us, it is not a trivial accomplishment for the brain. Teaching computers to...

Study IDs Protein That Inhibits HIV From Growing In Cell Cultures

...d the University of Iowa have identified a protein segment that strongly inhibits HIV from growing in cell models. The team found that an 85-amino acid segment within a GBV-C viral protein called NS5A greatly slows down HIV from replicating in cells grown in l...

Virtual Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Screening

...either a polyp larger than 6 mm or a nondiagnostic segment had undergone subsequent optical colonoscopy, the maximum referral rate would have been 11.9 percent. Seventy-one of the 1,110 patients (6.4 percent) underwent subsequent optical colonoscopy. Sixty-one of these procedures were performed on the same...

Researchers Studying Novel Therapy For Prostate Cancer

...ll up to 12 additional participants in the Phase I segment of the study. "While the vaccine is not intended to be curative at this stage, the role of the research participants is critically important to what is truly a team effort. Without the involvement of our patients, we could not succeed," said Timoth...

Severity of heart failure in elderly can be measured with a seven-point system

...h people 65 and older becoming the fastest growing segment of the population, the personal and financial burden of heart failure will likely increase. In their study, which followed 282 elderly heart failure patients for up to 14 years, the researchers identified seven factors that most affect patient surv...

Researchers Study Reimbursing Living Organ Donors for Out-of-Pocket Expenses

... Last year nearly 7,000 people donated a kidney, segment of the liver or lobe of a lung to help someone in need of a transplant. In fact at some major transplant centers — like Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital at Washington University Medical Center — the number of transplants invol...

Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

...the global society we live in today, a significant segment of population in most of the developed nations are used to traditional medicine products for generations. Hence erecting artificial non-tariff technical barriers to trade of Traditional Medicine products could infringe on their right to have products...

Joslin Diabetes Center Launches Veraxa Health

...nt vision loss. Now, with Veraxa Health, a greater segment of the population can benefit from JVN technology,” said C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President of Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Essence of JVN JVN images, along with other key patie...

Eye Surgeries Remain Cancelled Due To TASS Outbreak In Toronto

...ame down with the ailment, known as toxic anterior segment syndrome, or TASS. Moreover the hospital authorit...0 patients were told they had TASS (toxic anterior segment syndrome), a condition that usually is not serious. "I really don't think this problem they're hav...

Parkinson's Mutation Stunts Neurons

..., establishing that it was the "triggering" kinase segment of the protein that was central to the enzyme's defective function. The pathology of PD caused by mutated LRRK2 also includes formation of abnormal deposits, or "inclusions," in the neurons. Similarly, Abeliovich and his colleagues found that the m...

Why People are Addicted to Video Games?

...or short, which are considered the fastest growing segment of the computer gaming industry. MMOs are capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of players simultaneously. For those playing MMOs, the need for relatedness emerged "as an important satisfaction that promotes a sense of presence, game enjoyment,...

Study Finds Astaxanthin Is Potent Inhibitor of Oxidation in Cell Membrane Model

...% over a one-year period. However, an appreciable segment of the population are 'resistant' to antiplatelet therapy and remain relatively unprotected. More potent antiplatelet therapies, or increased doses of aspirin increase the risk of bleeding. “This wave of treatments,” said Pashkow “may be peaking as w...

Cancer Recurrence in Older Breast Cancer Patients Reduced By Radiation Therapy

...ents in women over 65 because this is an expanding segment of the U.S. population. Women in this age group are at the highest risk for breast cancer and make up half of those diagnosed, but only recently have been included in treatment trials. "Based on our findings, we recommend that mastectomy, or lumpec...

Scientists Identity Genetic Risk Factor for Head and Neck Cancer

...en performed to cut out and dispose of the damaged segment and replace it with a new one. In their study, which appeared in Cancer Research, the scientists asked whether a reduced individual ability (non-inherited) to repair DNA damage increases chances of getting head and neck cancer. Smoking damages DNA...