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Healthcare sector is now a multi billion-dollar industry in India

...ied the health care sector in India as a potential gold mine. India is poised to develop into a 'regional healthcare hub' with the $17 billion healthcare industry growing at a rate of 13 per cent the study says. With a 16% increase in budgetary outlay the healthcare industry is poised to zoom ahead bringi...

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

...n pharmaceutical 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 ap...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...nistration of contrast (dye) material.// It is the gold standard with a very high spatial resolution and temporal resolution with the possibility of multiple projections. DSA is useful to detect several abnormalities such as arteriosclerosis, and arteriovenous occlusion or stenosis, cerebral aneurysms, a...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

... the drug with a generic version of tamoxifen, the gold standard treatment for advanced breast cancer. Femara was initially approved by the FDA in 1997 as treatment for advanced, hormonally sensitive breast cancer that had not responded to other treatments. Novartis believes Femara may also have potenti...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...lled trials such as WEST, which are considered the gold standard of medical research. Recent randomized trials, in which a coin toss determines who goes on HRT, have found no benefit and perhaps even harm from the treatment. Joann Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hos...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...ological screening became available. However, the gold standard for diagnosing CD remains the small intestine biopsy. Blood samples from 236 known diabetics (1-18 years in age) were tested for total IGA and IGA-EMA by immunofluorescence. Of the 17 that had positive blood tests, 12 were subsequently diag...

Platinum for the Eye: A new facial palsy implant

...atinum chain. Earlier options which included rigid gold implants had many complications like bulging, inco...sthetic improvement in 33 patients receiving rigid gold implantations to those with 30 flexible platinum chain implantations. They measured the degree of ey...

New Test for HIV Patients

...f these measurements with those obtained using the gold standard for CD4 assessment. Researchers say the filter-paper method compared well with the standard method. Investigators say, based on this study, the dried blood stored on filter paper may be a field-friendly alternative for CD4 cell count assess...

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...herapy is safe and effective and should remain the gold standard of treatment. According to the report, published : ?h ICS therapy is not associated with bone thinning in children. ?h ICS therapy is linked to skin thinning and bruising in both adults and children, but the effects are mostly related to do...

Epilepsy Drug May Relieve Chronic Headaches

...chronic daily headaches. This type of study is the gold standard of clinical research studies where neither the researchers nor the participants know who received the drug or an identical dummy substance, called a placebo. For the study researchers recruited 133 patients who had headaches at least 15 day...

Epileptic Drug Found To Be Effective In Relieving Headache

...chronic daily headaches. This type of study is the gold standard of clinical research studies where neither the researchers nor the participants know who received the drug or an identical dummy substance, called a placebo. For the study researchers recruited 133 patients who had headaches at least 15 day...

Another Use For Epilepsy Drugs

...chronic daily headaches. This type of study is the gold standard of clinical research studies where neither the researchers nor the participants know who received the drug or an identical dummy substance, called a placebo. For the study researchers recruited 133 patients who had headaches at least 15 day...

New Non – invasive Test To Detect Colon Cance

A colonoscopy is the gold standard for detecting colon cancer. But many patients try to avoid the test as it is a very invasive test.// Recently, a fecal occult blood stool test has been used. This test looks for blood hidden in the stool. However, the test misses a majority ...

Fetal Cell Transplant Found To Improve Movement In Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...ore movement. Levodopa (Dopar or Larodopa) is the gold standard treatment for Parkinson’s disease. While the drug offers substantial relief, research shows it tends to lose its effectiveness after five to 10 years of use. Researchers say after one year, the transplant is equivalent to about 30-percent of...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

...er and son research team had been able to bind the gold nanoparticles to the antibodies for cancer cells, ...concentration on the healthy cells. By binding the gold nanoparticles to the antibody of epidermal growth factor receptor, it is possible to make the gold n...

Researchers developed world’s smallest toothbrus

...ow of bristles. The end of the base is coated with gold that will act as a handle and will also prevent the nano tube growth in that end. The size of the bundle of nanotubes will typically be some micrometers in diameter. The brush can clean extremely well the very small particles using electrostatic int...

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

..., Biology, Physics’ and this may change the future gold standard for early detection of cancers of this region. According to study author Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., professor of radiation oncology and radiology, ‘The results of this study suggest that the use of PET, or positron emission tomography, would m...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...hes by half.In a randomized controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severity of tension headache into three groups. Over an eight week period one set were treated with traditional acupuncture, one with minimal acupuncture (need...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

Money may not grow on trees, but gold can. In a remarkable experiment, Indian scientists have developed a form of gold using a micro-organism from a fig tree as the 'factory'. But before rushing to try cultivating fig t...

Musical Instruments Pleasing To The Ear But Rough On The Skin

...nging the brand of rosin or changing to plastic or gold mouthpieces, plastic polystyrene reeds, or bronze strings may help prevent these conditions. Thus researchers conclude saying, far most epidemiological studies have focused on the skin problems of orchestral musicians, including jazz, rock and pop ...

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