PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GENE DISCOVERED
...nformation about Primary Pulmonary Hypertension is available on the NHLBI Web site at www.nhlbi.nih.gov....Drug May Make Breathing Easier for Millions
...lth recently. The inhaled drug, Spiriva, could be available by the year 2002. And if it turns out to be as good as it looks right now, it could improve the quality of life for nearly half of the 600 million people with the disease, said Dr. Bartolome Celli. Celli is chief of pulmonary and critical care at St....Controversial deal on public access of the human genome map
... make the results of such ground-breaking research available for unrestricted public access, Celeron Genomics Inc. has worked a controversial deal with leading journal Science which will store the entire resources in a public databank called ' Genbank ', which will allow academic users to download a specif...Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine
...h. "It is critical that government funding is made available for this initiative," Michael Fox, the foundation's chief executive, was quoted as saying. The scope of Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Siddha Medicine, Acupuncture and other forms of alternative medicine has increased tremendously over the past few years ...New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug
...sure death sentence. But with this innovative tool available at least there is a glimmer of hope remaining for these hapless people bound to die a premature death. If the test results are any indication to go by, the results are very positive and in some the life expectancy has been remarkably extended......s and side effects and in most cases these are not available over the counter but surprisingly these are now available through the Internet. However it takes up to two weeks for the delivery of these contraceptives afte...“Brain fingerprinting”- The new lie detectr
... invention is supposed to be the best lie detector available as on date and is said to detect even smooth criminals who pass the polygraph test (the conventional lie detector test) with ease. The new method employs brain waves, which are useful in detecting whether the person subjected to the test, remembers f...Doctors needed urgently in Gujarat
...jarat. He is quick to point out that medicines are available aplenty butthere is a dearth of doctors at the site. Doctors volunteering to help arerequested to bring with them the instruments they might need in theirtreatment. All doctors volunteering to help are asked to contact these numbers AHMEDABAD...Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene
...eated without x rays. There were no recovery rooms available after surgeries. Open verandahs were used as makeshift recovery rooms and operation theatres to conduct caesarean sections to deliver babies. More than 700 doctors were furiously working over five days to correct whatever they could, most of them w...Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos
...arly 40 lakh at present. With the costs of the few available anti-AIDS drugs still very much beyond the affordability of the victims, a vaccine is being perceived as a welcome development. DBT and the Union Ministry of Health have already started a vaccine development project under the Indo-US initiative on H...Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003
... post-2002 period. Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans to raise the number of beds to 8000 from the present capacity are already underway and will be completed by 2002. Reddy said Apollo Hospitals had also firmed up plans to enter health insurance and had initiat...Antibiotics losing their power against acne
... sores and scarring. Only two major therapies are available at the movement to treat them - antibiotics and vitamin A. Both treatments have side effects. Vitamin A therapy in particular has been linked to birth defects, so must be prescribed with caution in women of childbearing age. Commonly used antibiot...Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink
... have always increased every time a new product is available to help addicts kick the habit. In 1998, the nicotine patch accounted for 49 percent of the drug-assisted attempts to quit, nicotine gum 28 percent and Zyban - a prescription drug - 21 percent. The nicotine inhaler and nasal spray accounted for les...Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries
...ryptococcal meningitis. Flucanazole, commerically available as Diflucan is used to treat these conditions. Representatives of Pfizer Inc. said they do not know how much the expanded 50-nation program would cost. However, they said that expenses of the project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include ...Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries
...ryptococcal meningitis. Flucanazole, commerically available as Diflucan is used to treat these conditions. Representatives of Pfizer Inc. said they do not know how much the expanded 50-nation program would cost. However, they said that expenses of the project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include ...Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids
...iet. A lot of these children do well on currently available medications and treatment. But if doctors see these abnormalities, alarm bells should go off, and they might want to explore some of the newer treatments....Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks
...the first product aimed at stopping smoking and is available at Rs. 40 per tablet. Speaking to newspersons, Mr. Kalyanasundaram, Director (Pharmaceuticals), Glaxo India Ltd, said the complete treatment osts about Rs. 5000 and takes about 7-12 weeks. In the first year of launch, Glaxo expects to target 50,000......ues write. This treatment utilising the naturally available virus to kill the brain tumor cells might be a useful treatment in the future. So the next step in this venture is to uphold trust before injecting into the nonhuman primates such as monkeys to make sure that it is safe before using them in humans. ...TELITHROMYCIN - the proven effective new drug for cap
...ing resistance of the bacteria causing them to the available antibiotics. Telithromycin (Ketek), a new ketolide antibiotic, is highly effective in treating patients with pneumococcal bacteraemia associated with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This is a breakthrough in the field of anti microbials as pneum......Livogen tablet as well as the Livogen Z tablet are available in the market. E Merck had introduced the tonic version of Livogen Z even before the tablets. E Merck will have only one version of Livogen Z and it will contain zinc sulphate. Zinc decreases tubal defects in pregnant women.The launch of this drug w...