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Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

...Resistance – Can result from mutations or from the acquisition of foreign genetic information; may manifest though multiple mechanisms; may take the form of temporary adaptation and not true genetic mutation. Withdrawal time – The FDA regulates the period of time in which an antibiotic cannot be administered t...

Wockhardt acquires Protinex, Farex brands from Netherland Co

...in our growth plans in nutrition business. Today's acquisition makes us the undisputed leader in medical nutritio...ally, under its brand names Dulac and Dupro. The acquisition has the potential to double its nutrition products sale to Rs 120 crore as Protinex and Farex comple...

Metropolis Health Plans Middle East hub in Dubai

...everal opportunities in Britain, including through acquisition of a lab chain." The company began its overseas foray in January in a tie-up with the Nawaloka Group of Sri Lanka. It is now operating the Nawaloka Metropolis Laboratories through a presence in the Nawaloka hospital and medical centres. It is als...

Ranbaxy Acquires Glaxosmithkline's Generic Unit in Spain

...y's CEO and MD Malvinder Mohan Singh said that the acquisition was in line with the company's M&A strategy to foc... see growth opportunities in the EU market and the acquisition would further consolidate its presence in the rapidly growing Spanish generic market and strengthen ...

Study finds Adolescents Girls Have Lower Levels Of Vitamin-D

... during childhood and adolescence might impair the acquisition of peak bone mass at the end of skeletal growth and maturation, thereby increasing the risk of osteoporotic fractures later in life.” In their study that they and reported in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Mughal and his team conducted th...

Apollo's Global Arm Acquires US-based Firm

...ealthcare service company of Apollo, announced the acquisition Monday. Apollo Health Street offers healthcare f...ngita Reddy, managing director, AHS, announced the acquisition at a news conference here in the presence of William Colgan, promoter and managing director, AFS. ...

Understanding Reasons for Tone deafness

... have implications for the understanding of normal acquisition of musical abilities and for the diagnosis and remediation of this music-specific disorder. Source-Eurekalert SAV...

India's Wockhardt Acquires Irish Firm

... major Wockhardt Limited announced on Tuesday the acquisition of Pinewood Laboratories// Limited of Ireland for ...roaden its presence in the European market. 'This acquisition gives us a larger footprint in Europe spread over Britain, Ireland and Germany,' Wockhardt chairman ...

New Antipsychotic Medications have Little Advantage Over Older Drugs

...enia. “The key question was whether the additional acquisition costs of second-generation antipsychotics over first-generation antipsychotics would be offset by improvements in health-related quality of life or savings in the use of other health and social care services in people with schizophrenia for whom a ch...

Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Previous ICU Room Occupants

...d 658 carried VRE, leaving 7,629 to screen for the acquisition of MRSA and 7,806 for acquisition of VRE. The average patient age was 61 years, and 58 percent were male. Fourteen percent of these IC...

Gender and Family Size Influences IBS Symptoms in Children

... but not large families. Dr. Langer explains, “The acquisition of illness behavior by daughters of women with IBS may be intensified in smaller families, where presumably these children have more one-on-one time to learn either through observation or other mechanisms. Future research is needed to explore the mec...

Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research

... the medical specialities to benefit most from the acquisition of this unit, and in which the use is the most nov... Neuroimaging in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer The acquisition of the 3 Teslas magnetic resonance imaging unit will enhance Functional Neuroimaging research – alre...

'Good' And 'Evil' Clones Of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia cells

...n unclear whether these relapses resulted from the acquisition of therapy-induced drug resistance or were caused by a subpopulation of cells that were already intrinsically drug resistant.' Ms Choi, a final year PhD student at the Children's Cancer Institute Australia in Sydney and medical student at the Unive...

Fasting Mamata's Health Condition Deteriorates

...rning// even as her hunger strike against farmland acquisition for a Tata Motors project entered its 25th day. The medical team, led by physician Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, examined Mamata who had to be again put on oxygen. The doctors attending on her said her blood pressure has dropped coupled with low pulse r...

Ranbaxy in Fray to Buy Merck's Generic Drugs Unit

....’ According to Singh, the due diligence for the acquisition was expected to start next month. He, however, declined to give any financial details. ‘Merck makes sense for us since it would result in a major gain for us in the global generics business and a strategic fit for our activities,’ Singh said, addin...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

...V and to consider smoking as a risk factor for HIV acquisition or progression to AIDS. A total of 15 studies met these criteria, with nine of the studies looking at progression to AIDS, five examining HIV seroconversion, and one examining both. Five of the six papers looking at smoking and the risk of acquiri...

Vaginalis Increases the Risk of Becoming Infected With HIV

...d infections increase the risk of transmission and acquisition of HIV. Although there are 173 million cases of Tr...th Trichomonas vaginalis increased the risk of HIV acquisition in women and therefore conducted an eleven-year prospective study involving sex workers in Mombasa. ...

Discovery Leads to Way to Curb Anthrax Effect

...neaux said the researchers began studying the iron acquisition system of anthrax because few others were doing it. “One reason it hadn’t been studied much was because anthrax is rare in humans. It wasn’t until it was realized that it could be used as a bioweapon causing mass infections that interest peaked,” s...

Dr Reddy's Eyeing for Generics Arm of Merck

...p pay for its Euro 10.5 billion (7 billion pounds) acquisition in September of Serono, the Swiss biotechnology group. A sale of the Merck Generics unit, which is believed to be worth between Euro 3 billion and Euro 4 billion, would allow Merck to concentrate on its core prescription pharmaceuticals business. ...

The First Commercially Available Brain Computer Interface

... What is Pocket BCI? Based on the mobile data acquisition system, g.MOBIlab, a Brain-Computer Interface, is now available on the Pocket PC. A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) converts brain signals into outputs that communicate a user's intent. Such a new communication channel does not rely on pheripheral ...

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