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Acupuncture May Help Chemotherapy Side Effects

...entric or out of the mainstream.’ Looks like the west is sitting up and taking notice of Oriental Medicine in a Big Way!!...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...rding to Ranbaxy's regional director for India and west Asia, S D Kaul, the company is in a position to launch Lamivudine, Nevirapine, Aabacavir and Indinavir products in the Indian market shortly.// Ranbaxy's subsidiary, the Hyderabad-based Vorin Laboratories which is a bulk drug manufacturer, will be f...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...llion people living in Tsetse fly-endemic areas of west and central Africa are at risk, as are cattle and horses. // Sleeping Sickness first came to international attention when colonial explorers like Livingstone and Stanley noticed that their horses could not survive in parts of Africa. But people h...

Complications Of Pregnancy May Increase The Risk Of Cancer

...igin. In addition, researchers found that women of west Asian origin and lower social status were most likely to have preeclampsia. Researchers suggest certain environmental and genetic factors may contribute to the development of both preeclampsia and cancer , they also say that diet, insulin resistanc...

Toxin from the sea to relieve pain

...nails called Conus victoriae found along the north west coast of Australia. The snail uses the venom to paralyze the prey before killing it for food. At least 20 people have been known to die from poisoning by envenomation by cone snails. The researchers of the study said that the toxin not only has pain...

Doctors Warned by IMA Against Treating Maoist from Nepal

...undergoing treatment in their private clinics. In west Champaran district Dr Kamru Zama was arrested earlier this month for treating two Nepalese Maoists who had received bullet injuries. Two more doctors — Dr D K Sinha and Dr R Singh — have been accused in the same case and are facing charges. Over t...

Arsenic in drinking water

... and the United States of America. Examples are: west Bengal Seven of 16 districts of West Bengal have been reported to have ground water arsenic concentrations above 0.05 mg/L; the total population in these seven districts is over 34 million (Mandal, et al, 1996) and it has been estimated that the popu...

Encephalitis Spreads to Nepal

...med at least 20 lives in the past two weeks in the west Nepal district of Kailali,. The disease is already...e to the disease in Kailali district, about 520 km west of the capital, alone could rise as all 20 deaths occurred in hospitals and most people in the distr...

New Infertility test to be offered by Reliance

...endoscopy. MFM is evolving specialties even in the west were pregnancies are monitored from the initial stages, to detect, and in some cases, correct any abnormalities in the baby. Dr. Patki said, “We have also started offering workshops in advanced infertility treatment and fetal medicine to educate gyn...

Time for A.R.Rahman to rock the Tuberculosis Awareness Programme

...International Stop TB Partnership, met patients in west Delhi's Mongolpuri area. He also interacted with them about the treatments available and encouraged them to avail of these. "Every individual is important for the country and hence it is better to be disease-free by availing of the treatment," he sa...

Global Hospitals coming to city of Joy

...m these regions. “More and more patients from the west will come to India as the cost of healthcare is much higher there than in India,” he added. The hospital will have provision for free-beds for poor...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

...d al-Khatib was fatally shot during clashes in the west Bank city of Jenin last Thursday when Israeli troops mistook the toy gun he carried for a real rifle. Ahmed was transferred from a Palestinian hospital to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. He died of his wound only after 48 hours, leaving the ...

Chhattisgarh Malaria And Typhoid

... and typhoid hit areas in Surguja district, 405 km west from here, though the tribal patients preferred to use traditional medicines. "The death toll is likely to go up within next few days as the patients are reluctant to avail medical facilities made available to them,' Ali added. --IANS...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...he construction of a new hospital at Pitampura (in west Delhi) which would be ready by 2007-end. We also plan Greenfield projects in Bangalore and Kolkata," Vishal Bali, the chain's vice president, told IANS. Unlike the existing 110-bed cardiac care hospital in Bangalore, the second hospital will be a 40...

Romania suspects 5 new bird flu cases

...ses of avian flu in domestic birds in Buzau county west of the Danube delta, where the deadly virus was fi...ld and its vicinity. Padina lies 10 km (six miles) west of the village of Ciocile, where the disease was also detected earlier this month. On Friday, tes...

Recent Poultry Deaths Rocks Romania

...deadly strain (H5N1). The virus is moving toward west in the direction of one of the most highly populated area. Samples of the infected birds (hens & poultry) were sent to Britain to confirm whether it is due to the H5N1 strain. Though H5N1 virus has so far not infected and spread the disease to huma...

Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity

... in 52 AD, long before it travelled to many of the west European Christian countries. The religion is believed to have been introduced by St. Thomas, a carpenter by profession and an apostle of Jesus Christ. Although it reached in the first century, the community confined itself largely to India's southe...

Bird Flu in China

...e disease spread widely in the Dazhu County (south west Chinese province) killing 1800 birds. The strain that caused the death was confirmed to be that of H5N1 strain. Due to this 12,900 birds were killed in and around the Dazhu County to prevent the further spread of the disease. Statistics show t...

Turkish PM says bird flu under control

...reaks of the virus were detected among fowl in the west and southeast of the country, according to local officials quoted by the Anatolia news agency. A massive campaign of slaughtering poultry is underway in several parts of the country. Meanwhile, Turkey's neighbors are also on high alert strengthen...

State-of-the-art Heart and lung unit at Scotland by 2007

...ise heart and lung surgery for patients across the west of Scotland.// As the largest specialist unit in ... at the Jubilee National Hospital, patients in the west of Scotland will receive faster high quality treatment," she said....

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