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AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...ections of any single country. And speakers at two press conferences here cautioned that a pervasive cultur...iversity of Oxford in Great Britain who spoke at a press conference on the future of AIDS.Although India has a relatively strong economy, technological prowe...

Indian Prime Minister has successful Knee Replacement Surgery

...y well, to my satisfaction," Dr. Ranawat said at a press briefing. ``He (Mr. Vajpayee) was awake and comfortable throughout the operation and is now in the recovery room. He is not on any sedative. I talked to him after the operation.'' Dr. Ranawat was assisted by two surgeons....

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...rk on Thursday, at an American Medical Association press briefing on heart disease, that rapidly cooling people whose hearts have suddenly stopped, could provide a way to bring them back to life without organ damage. Dr. Lance B. Becker, Director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center at the University of ...

Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

...Prof. A.V Ramani, Senior Group Vice-President at a press conference. The development of the device started during the early eighties with intensive research and brought to clinical usage during December 1990. The product costing around Rs. 18,000 (nearly on third of the cost of the imported artificial valv...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...enry McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, told reporters at a press conference. Many patients stricken with AIDS develop complication of fungal origin. Two common conditions are esophageal candidiasis and cryptococcal meningitis. Flucanazole, commerically available as Diflucan is used to treat these conditions. R...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...enry McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, told reporters at a press conference. Many patients stricken with AIDS develop complication of fungal origin. Two common conditions are esophageal candidiasis and cryptococcal meningitis. Flucanazole, commerically available as Diflucan is used to treat these conditions. R...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

According to a press release about one third the population of Bangladesh are at risk of getting cancer from arsenic deposits in well water. Drinking arsenic tainted water for prolonged periods results in skin lesions and cancer of kidney, skin, lung and bladder said t...

Genesis of SUPAC

...ferences, wet granulation effects, and compression press differences have been analysed for their role in scale-up process. The difficulties observed during scale-up of liquid formulations (sterilisation process) and for suppositories, which are quite dependent upon suppository making machines were also en...

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

... at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston told the press that they haven't yet confirmed one of the known causes of birth defects in lower animals. Researchers have postulated that if a couple has sex either too early before or too late after ovulation, the aging sperm or aging egg might suffer damage th...

New drug for hypertension

...he treatment of hypertension. Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday,// NCL director Sivaram and Emcure managing director Satish Mehta said the chirally pure S-Amlodipine, a product of their collaborative research, will be a great boon for the patients suffering from hypertension. Stating...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

...tap Reddy, //chairman of Apollo Hospitals told the press that DBC, a revolutionary concept resulting from over 25 years of international research, is patented by the noted specialist Dr Simo Taimela of Finland who has already set up 55 such centres across the world. Dr Taimela felt that the concept uses t...

WHO Travel Advice to prevent spread of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...ent the further international spread of SARS. In a press release this morning, WHO issued the following advice:? The World Health Organization (WHO) today began recommending that persons travelling to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China and Guangdong Province, China consider postponing all bu...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. In a press release from WHO it said that the world’s most neglected patients desperately need new, affordable, accessible and effective drugs, but their diseases do not represent a market profitable enough to attract Research and Development (R&D). Investment i...

The 'lazy man's yoga"

...ans and the entire body," Diftler said. "So as you press on the physical body and release tension, it allows the energy in the body to flow." Thai massage is relatively new in the United States, but the number of classes and instructors certified are growing. In Thailand, the practice has been a part of ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...House Speaker Dennis Hastert said at a rally-style press conference in the Capitol. "The time is upon us. It's now or never." Republican leaders were still pressing wavering GOP conservatives to vote for the bill, which carries a 10-year price tag of $395 billion. Conservatives have balked at the price t...

Upcoming Hemogenomics Centre in Bangalore

...ting, selling and research company. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the BioAsia 2004 conference Bangalore on February 28, he said Hemogenomics would be affiliated to Relia Group of the U.S., and Silged (Relia Group company) of China. The project consists of an immunological diagnostic s...

New Kidney Transplantation procedure

...ansplantation, and a member of the team, said at a press conference in Chennai....

Canada withdraws ADHD drug Adderall XR

...ecided to take a wait-and-watch approach. FDA in a press release has asked the parents of children taking Adderall medication to consult their doctors before deciding to stop the medication for their children. Adderall XR is a stimulant drug prescribed for children diagnosed with ADHD. The drug has been l...

Lidoderm for pain removal in Osteoarthritis

...nt study. The results of the study came out in a press release by the firm Endo Pharmaceuticals in 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society....

New robotic drill to do dental implants

...elines are then adjusted with the frame and at the press of a button, the robotic drill will do the fixing of the dental implant. The organization had finished testing the new drill on animals and has the approval of FDA of USA to test it on humans. Once the trials on human subjects are conducted success...

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