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India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...he fight to provide all poor people with access to cheap medicines continues," he added. "The drug giants seem to have listened to reason in this case, which is good news for AIDS sufferers in South Africa," said Oxfam director of policy Justin Forsyth. "What we must see now is pressure being brought on t...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

...o talk to pharmaceutical companies that can supply cheap drugs to combat the dreaded virus. As a part of ...with Cipla to examine the feasibility of supplying cheap AIDS drugs for its people. Though AIDS activists have welcomed the move they say other companies mu...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...giants wanting to stop South Africa from importing cheap AIDS drugs. The country with largest number of AI...trike down a law permitting South Africa to import cheap AIDS drugs was beaten off by the court. Health experts and AIDS activists say that this would lower...

India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

...l companies hope to strike a pot of gold by making cheap anti-AIDS drugs. This has triggered a price war that is likely to escalate in coming days. The large number of AIDS cases has lured many companies to develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting innovative approaches to pric...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...fects may be modest in size," Dippel added, "it is cheap and has almost no harmful effects."...

Vitamin B for Hepatitis

A study has found a cheap and non toxic method of treating Hepatitis, by administering vitaminB to the Ptients. Hepatitis B virus infects the liver, and in severe cases can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. It is spread through contact with the blood or bod...

Photographs for Diagnosis

...e, say US researchers. They say their technique is cheap enough to be used by opticians and GPs to mass-screen patients.Strokes are caused by brain cell death due to bleeding from damaged blood vessels. Over 500,000 people suffer strokes every year in the Asia alone. Retinal scans are simple, non-invas...

Photographs as a parameter

...e, say US researchers. They say their technique is cheap enough to be used by opticians and GPs to mass-screen patients.Strokes are caused by brain cell death due to bleeding from damaged blood vessels. Drugs that are effective at preventing stroke in high-risk patients are available, so doctors are ke...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

...us Sequence Typing, there is a potential for fast, cheap bacteria strain identification. DNA chips work in a similar way to microarrays. "It|s just a way of putting lots and lots of different bits of DNA onto a solid support and then subjecting that to some sort of reaction," explained Dr Giffard. They al...

Photographs as a parameter

...e, say US researchers. They say their technique is cheap enough to be used by opticians and GPs to mass-screen patients.Strokes are caused by brain cell death due to bleeding from damaged blood vessels. Drugs that are effective at preventing stroke in high-risk patients are available, so doctors are keen t...

Keep fit always

...le flight. For weights, use canned goods, or buy a cheap pair of dumb bells from the local store. And don't forget that simple activities, like playing games with children or grandchildren, washing the clothes and gardening all count towards your daily exercise total....

New Cure for Addiction?

...iction, the cost per patient , about $70, would be cheap by any standard. The Vietnamese government is //demonstrating confidence in the product by investing $100,000 dollars in a testing program. The United Nations Development Program is investing $400,000; they are describing Heantos as an "interesting i...

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

...ally, to override international patents and import cheap generic drugs when required. ''The WTO drug deal is an historic agreement. Now people from the smaller and poor nations will get access to cheaper generic drugs and that too without any pre-conditions,'' a spokesman from domestic pharma major Ranbax...

New Test for HIV Patients

...y encouraging as they point the way towards making cheap CD4 count testing available to people receiving antiretroviral therapy in rural areas. Such methods could be used in a similar way towards HIV viral-load measurement, another test required to assess the success of HIV treatment."...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...y prevented. Doxycyclin has been used a safe and cheap drug and has been around for many years. however a note of caution is warranted when it is used in children. In them it may cause irreparable damage to the teeth and slow down growth of the bones. The antibiotic should not be used also during pregna...

15 Anti-SARS Drugs Identified By China-Europe Team of Researchers

...ation with other drugs’. As it is an old safe and cheap drug, it could be used widely for SARS patients in the developing world. China is also working on vaccines against SARS epidemics. The first phase trials have already been completed in December and the second phase is to start soon as per a news re...

The Indian Government has given the nod to conduct Human volunteer trials inorder to develop preventive AIDS vaccines

...strong pharmaceutical industry which has developed cheap and effective AIDS drugs that are exported across the globe....

Diabetes and heart attack diagnosis now made simple with twin magic

... medical gadgets are expected to be constructed of cheap throw-away plastic which would not only make glucose testing simple and painless, but would significantly cut down the time in diagnosis. Because the analysis is done inside the body, the need to withdraw body fluid is eliminated and the small needle...

Testing Your Health & Charging Your Mobile At One Go - Check Out The Urine Powered Batteries

...e, Lee says. It could be a useful power source for cheap healthcare test kits for diseases like diabetes, and could be used in emergency situations to power a cell phone. "Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity on contact with biofluids such as urine or blood." The ...

Genetic Tests Could Become As Affordable As Blood Tests

... which they say will one day make genetic tests as cheap as blood tests. The technique called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS) uses handy genetic tools called microarrays, which are not generally used in medical diagnostics.// The new technique has been developed by Francesco Stellacci and his collea...

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