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Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...Cuba holds up its health care system as one of the achievements of the revolution launched by Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1959, critics of the Cuban government say health care and other social benefits have come at a cost of political freedom in a one-party state. Still, Cuba is a model for other developing co...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

...rn biology and biotechnology in India. Significant achievements include the growth and application of biotechnology in the broad areas of medical biotechnology and health care, agriculture, animal sciences, environment, and industry. DBT has more than 5000 research publications, 4000 post-doctoral students, sever...

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

...al health, according the Gates Foundation. PDA's achievements include playing a pivotal role in establishing Thailand's national HIV prevention campaign in 1991, which led to an 87 percent reduction in new infections of the virus that causes AIDS, the Foundation said. "Mechai Viravaidya is widely known as Tha...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its industry to be materially di...mmission, may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The forw...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop “Next Generation” Vaccine Candidats

...rn biology and biotechnology in India. Significant achievements include the growth and application of biotechnology in the broad areas of medical biotechnology and health care, agriculture, animal sciences, environment, and industry. DBT has more than 5000 research publications, 4000 post-doctoral students, sever...

Overuse Of Antibiotics-Creating Monsters Out Of Common Microbes

...e problem?Antibiotics are one of the most profound achievements in medicine, but decades of widespread and indiscriminate use in cosmetics and soaps and food animal production, has rendered many ineffective. The practice goes on. One such example is that last month, the Food and Drug Administration, despite wa...

Government Allot More Funds for Revised TB Program

...will consolidate, maintain and further improve the achievements of first phase," she added. Under the second phase, the government would strive for implementation of DOTS-Plus for multi-drug resistant TB in a much broader way. Procurement and distribution of paediatric drug boxes for improved care of children w...

US, Indian Doctors Bag Thai Medical Awards

...ces. They received the award Wednesday for their achievements in the discovery, introduction and widespread use ... good deeds for the sake of goodness, because such achievements are not meant for any individual but for the benefit of mankind as a whole". The ORS, consisting ...

First Open-heart Surgery Performed in Agra

... he said. Agra's Apollo Pankaj hospital has many achievements to its credit. Last year the hospital was in news for successfully treating a large number of dengue and chikungunya cases in record time. Earlier patients had to go to Delhi for such operations, but such new facilities will benefit local people, d...

And the Winner Is

...ist from more than 100 nominations chosen based on achievements that transformed the lives of millions of people around the world. Cheerleaders for each medical milestone have been chosen. They include Carl Djerassi co-creator of the Pill as well as a descendant of John Snow, the pioneer of anesthesia. Says ...

Diabetes Rates Soar High in NSW

...ted that there had been a number of public health achievements inclusive of increased life expectancy because of reduction of death due to cardiac problems and cancer. John Hatzistergos, NSW Health Minister said that he would guide the state governments resources. He added on, "We cannot afford to become compla...

Targeting a Single Gene Could Inhibit Bone Decay and Stimulate Bone Growth

...izes scholars and researchers who make outstanding achievements by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher levels and who also present exemplary models for the academic community. Choi, who is originally from Seoul, South Korea, has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 2...

Yale Scientist Received Medical Science Prize From Keio University

...to researchers in recognition of their outstanding achievements in the fields of medical or life sciences, is the only prize of its kind awarded by a Japanese University. It included an honorarium of 20 million yen, a certificate of merit in recognition of his outstanding achievement on the structural basis of th...

Fish Oils Supplements Could Cool Violent Children

...hort-term memory among primary pupils and enhanced achievements in reading and spelling. Source-IANS...

Certification of UK Doctors Would Improve Quality of Care

...e United States that allows doctors to demonstrate achievements and competencies beyond the minimum acceptable standards required for licensing purposes. Certified status must be renewed every six to 10 years. But does certification improve medical standards? Kim Sutherland and Sheila Leatherman reviewed data...

River Blindness Incidence Reduced With Effective Treatment

...d Health Organisation (WHO). It continues from the achievements of previous works held in Africa in order to assess Ivermectin effects and to determine the importance of onchocerciasis. Results are highly conclusive in this case: onchocerciasis prevalence before treatment was of 74.5%, and after treatment, 38.4%....

Onchocerciasis: Presentation And Treatment

...d Health Organisation (WHO). It continues from the achievements of previous works held in Africa in order to assess Ivermectin effects and to determine the importance of onchocerciasis. Results are highly conclusive in this case: onchocerciasis prevalence before treatment was of 74.5%, and after treatment, 38.4%....

Unchecked Spread of HIV/AIDS May Impact Eco Growth: UN Report

India's achievements in various fields, particularly in terms of economic growth, could take a severe beating if HIV/AIDS continues its unchecked march in the country, a UN report said here today. // The study based on the computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis ...

Omega 3 Supplements Is Very Essential For the Kids

...resent in fish oil is found to enhance educational achievements and combat other behavioral problems. The researchers at the University of South Australia //said that it has a positive effect on the kids suffering from Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The kids with ADHD responded better to Omega 3...

India Should Learn From China On Pharma Industry: KPMG

...ternational has said. 'India needs to look to the achievements of China, where the government's strong commitment pro-industry policies have produced a positive environment that not only offer drug manufacturers a product patent regime but also, and crucially, data protection,' the report said, adding that India...

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