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Miracle cure for Alzheimer’s around the corner

...ages of which have been successful and the vaccine declared safe to be administered. If proven successful it would be an enormous breakthrough. Though being tried as a cure for mild to moderate illness, it is hoped that it will eventually be useful in prevention as well. Time to keep the fingers crosse!...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...everely hypoxic (starved of oxygen) that they were declared brain dead and life support withdrawn later. While for many the season of festivals is the time to really unwind and enjoy, for an unfortunate few this becomes the dreaded period of the year where they fight for their lives against the killer respi...

Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

...ng. When she was brought to the hospital, doctors declared her clinically dead, but lo and behold, she was awake and smiling on Monday in a miraculous recovery. Read on to know more. The temperature outside was –24 degree Celsius and the baby was frozen stiff when she was brought to the hospital that doctor...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...n, including a 62 year old, to give birth. The two declared their plans at a conference at the Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.Their announcement echoes that of Richard Seed, a physicist who made a similar declaration in January 1998, sparking ethical and legal debate (BMJ 1998;316:167). The curren...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

... examination is necessary before the method can be declared safe. Further studies are on to cross check that the cells inserted as a part of this method into the patients body do not cause the reaction or turn malignant. The next step is to look for ways to produce more clotting factor consistently....

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

The supreme court of India has declared that distribution of physician's sample by pharmac...7 of the Act. Hence the supreme court of india has declared that the physician's samples distributed by pharmaceutical companies come under the ambit of adverti...

WHO Declares Vietnam First Country to Control SARS

The WHO declared Vietnam as the first country to contain its SARS outbreak. Vietnam had five deaths from SARS after the virus spread in February through Hanoi's international hospital. There was about sixty three people affected by the virus. However Hanoi French Hos...

Scientists review SARS

...fficials from around the world immediatelyafter it declared SARS a global health risk on March12. The teams quickly identified the virus that W.H.O.believes causes SARS and the ways it can be spread. Yesterday, the agency added China's Hebei Province tothe agency's list of places to which people withouturgent...

Combination of Clopidogrel-aspirin is better for preventing stroke than only aspirin

...e effective than only aspirin//. The results were declared after 107 participants across four countries of the Europe were given the combination medication or only aspirin. Each of the participants of the study had had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). All the patients have at least 50% narrower c...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...rocess. From being a victim of medical science and declared a dead man; having spent 20 years to studying this concept. Today he is the pioneer and one of Americas foremost healing authorities. Spreading the message are his seven books. The most sought after being The Cancer Conqueror, which sold 1.5 million ...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

...l budget today is Rs.200 million. In 1975, it was declared a regional centre of cancer treatment and research for the southern region by the Government of India, the first such cancer centre to be thus designated. The hospital houses over 415 beds, of which 250 are free. Doctors here see over 70,000 patien...

SARS outbreaks contained

The World Health Organization has declared the SARS virus outbreak contained around the world after removing Taiwan, the last region on its list of affected areas. SARS is thought to have originated in southern China, where the first known cases began appearing last November. From China, expe...

Prime Minister Declares War on AIDS

...lhi. Aug 15. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh now has declared that AIDS had to be fought on ‘war footing’ as it was becoming a "major national problem"//. Singh made this announcement from the Red Fort on India’s 59th independence day. He took encouragement from the fact that the country had been able to cont...

WHO declares Tuberculosis – ‘An Emergency’ in Afrca

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Tuberculosis as an emergency in Africa. It is kill...prising health ministers from 46 Member States has declared tuberculosis an emergency in the African region. The deaths have quadrupled in the last few years. ...

Dengue Claims 15 Lives In West Bengal

...icted 1,000 people in West Bengal so far, has been declared an epidemic by the state government.// State Health Director Prabhakar Chatterjee Tuesday told IANS:...

Dengue Epidemic in West Bengal: Over 1000 New Cases and 15 dead

...er of West Bengal Mr.Surya Kanta Mishra officially declared that West Bengal was facing a Dengue epidemic and the numbers of cases detected were increasing in comparison to last year.// Mishra also said that other than dengue, malaria, typhoid, viral fever and encephalitis were also afflicting the people, ...

45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

...ad of dengue disease. In Kolkata, the city mayor declared 70 percent of the municipal wards dengue affected on Tuesday, while earlier the state health minister had admitted that dengue has become an epidemic in Bengal. "So far, 19 people have died from dengue," Prabhakar Chatterjee, the state's health servi...

Specialized Clinics For Manipur's AIDS Patients

...e in a vulnerable state." The northeast has been declared one of India's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV. The number of HIV/AIDS patients in India is believed to be over 5.1 million. Manipur alone accounts for about 20,000 HIV-positives although unofficial estimates put the f...

Microbicides could serve to materialise women empowerment in the years to come

...des in large-scale use worldwide yet. In 2001, WHO declared nonoxylon-9 products, attempts of which turned out be a failure. It is said that even 60 percent effective microbicides can prevent 2.5 million new HIV infections in the next three years, and this trial is important as the HIV vaccine is still 10 ye...

Top Pharmaceuticals Influence Doctors Prescriptions

...The survey found that more than a third of authors declared financial links to the relevant drug companies, with nearly 70 percent of panels affected. In case of one guideline every member of the panel had been paid by the company responsible for the drug that had been recommended. Some doctors know that t...

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