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Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...to be left far behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people all over the world ganging up against rising prices of essential life saving medicines. Howe...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...a Biotechnics was in the process of finalising its plans for a private placement to raise funds both for establishing an US FDA-approved research-cum-manufacturing facility and also to take up joint initiatives with pharma majors like the above, he said. Various studies and forecasts made on AIDS in India...

Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

... major Apollo Hospitals announced on Thursday that plans are afoot to consider listing on US bourses in 200... 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 compl...

George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief

...cenario and the corrective measures the world body plans to launch on June 25 in New York. President Bush said that he and Secretary-General Kofi Annan had agreed on several principles for the fund's operation, including a focus on both prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and a respect for int...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...62 year old, to give birth. The two declared their plans at a conference at the Samaritan Hospital in Lexin...ikely to occur with humans as well. Commenting on plans for a human cloning clinic. Drs. Zawos and Antinori emphasized that they would offer the technique o...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...s unit at Dewas in Madhya pradesh. The company has plans 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 Pharmaceuticals, Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals and Zydus Cadilla. Recently,...

Blocked viens block eye sight

... probe does not damage the vulnerable vein. He now plans to test how good the plasma-powered bullets are at cutting tissue during microsurgery. As lasers tend to damage the surrounding tissues by creating bubbles in local body fluids, the pure saline jet might make even finer cuts without causing stress to...

Setting up a new pharmaceutical industry in India

...e its precisions and accuracy. // At present it plans to start with importing from Germany and later stage to manufacture in India. This will be 9th company of the group. Erweka has companies in Germany, Switzerland, USA, UK, France, Poland, Italy and now in India. The main products of the company are...

First human clone is near

...verino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offspring. Countries like France and Germany have appealed to the United Nations to get human cloning banned in an international treaty.// The team has been banned from carrying out research in most European Union countries, bu...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

...g to informed sources, MSI, which recently drew up plans to expand its franchisee operations from the prese... It is not very clear why MSI has put on hold its plans to commence operations in Chennai while it has decided to go ahead with the expansion of operations ...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

... Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced plans to buy as many as 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. But several health experts have warned against a national vaccination program, citing potentially serious side effects including as many as 300 deaths. Other experts argue that once an outbre...

A new vaccine for leukemia

... any possible attack. Professor Stephenson plans to launch a 21-patient trial of the new vaccine within six months.She believes the treatment will be without side effects, and will offer the patient immunity against their cancer for life.It is hoped that the treatment can be refined and extended t...

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

...rly. The portal is part of the state government's plans for inching towards total e-governance, says S Prakash Rao, special officer, AP online portal, Department of Information Technology and Communications. He said that the portal has compiled comprehensive data from 180 departments and contains 350 form...

Chemical in Gila monster's saliva yields Alzheimer drug

...onyx Inc., which is developing the drug, Gilatide, plans to start human trials with it as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease later this year. A growing number of companies are probing the mechanisms of memory formation, hoping to find drugs that can help offset memory loss in patients with diseases rangin...

FDA debates status of decongestant drugs

...n over-the-counter decongestants is unsafe, and it plans to recommend further review by the FDA. The FDA Non-Prescription Drugs Advisory Committee met to discuss a new five-year study by Yale University researchers that found phenyl-propanolamine (PPA), an active ingredient in non-prescription drugs, can ...

FDA panel refuses anti-viral cold remedy

...Viro Pharma, says the drug isn't dead. The company plans to meet with the FDA in coming weeks to see what steps they need to take to get approval....

Nurses save more lives

...n nursing and are often allowed to develop nursing plans and coordinate care by therapists and other specialists. Licensed practical nurses (LPN) generally have a year of formal training but no degree. Nursing aides often have minimal training. In some of the most striking findings, medical patients with ...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

...n the pipeline. Kathryn Wagner, on the other hand plans to take these studies further by “switching off” the myostatin gene in mice with DMD at different time points to determine if the treatment is still effective at late stages of the disease....

New standards for Human Research Safety

...Committee for Quality Assurance recently announced plans to set up a program to review the safety of clinical tests// in humans. This announcement came close on the heels of U.S. officials moving to suspend gene therapy studies pending an investigation of side effects in a French study, which found a cure ...

Ranbaxy trying to make inroads in herbal drugs market

...r, which has 60 per cent market share. The company plans to market a few herbal drugs in the forthcoming months, whose details are available in their corporate// website. The company's products have already shown remarkable progress in the US market where the sales has increased from $15 million in 1998 to...

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