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Heart Treatment from Vasogen Shows Promise

...the New York Heart Association as well as the more ailing class III and IV patients, provided they had not suffered a previous heart attack. The initial setback to the hopes for Celacade had led to loss of confidence in the company But Mr. Elsley said he believed Vasogen's fortunes had turned, adding that...

$68 million aid pours in from Gates Foundation to fight tropical diseases

...s will do a world of good to bring reprieve to the ailing millions in the grips of debilitating illnesses....

Pink of health: Breast Cancer Awareness Takes on Color and Vibrancy

...ssist the fight against breast cancer. Many women, ailing from breast cancer are fighting for their life. To increase breast cancer awareness and raise funds to take the initiatives forward, many famous brands have launched a series of advertising campaigns. This campaign epitomizes the liberated woman, wh...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...anised a healthcare camp for the villagers. Twenty ailing children were admitted to the hospital at Baripada, who have now returned to their homes." Chaitanya Majhi, Orissa's tribal affairs minister who visited the area after the news of the infant deaths became public, swung the district administration i...

Pet Peeves: Conservatives Howl at Proposal to Share NHS Hosp by Pets and People

...ospital's radiotherapy department to dogs and cats ailing from cancer drew criticism from the union and the conservatives//. To effectively manage the ￡24m debt at Ipswich hospital in Suffolk, suggestions came in from the staff that a pets’ clinic could be instituted on Saturdays to put the under utilized...

Spanish Doctor to Examine Cuban Leader Castro

A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Pe...ears. A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya said Sunday. Source-IANS...

Myanmar Junta Head to Be Treated in Singapore

... informed source in the government said Than Shwe, ailing for the past year, was suffering from a tumour in his intestines. His sickness could accelerate a power shift in Myanmar's military hierarchy with many speculating that Than Shwe might be replaced by General Shwe Mann, deemed his chosen successor. ...

Men and Women React Differently to Heart Disease Diagnosis

...sults published by Canadian GENESIS project, men's ailing hearts respond differently to some medications as women do. For example Angiograms, which are usually effective in pinpointing heart problems in men, are less effective in women, which concludes that maybe Angiograms aren't such a good test for diag...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

...acute malnutrition. Her illiterate parents fed the ailing infant a 'sugar solution' they thought would cure her. When her condition deteriorated, on the advice of a NGO they took her to the hospital. Madhya Pradesh has the largest number of malnourished children in the country, with 80,000 cases of sever...

Reports of Unknown Disease ‘baseless

...hou, had admitted and quarantined several patients ailing from an obscure illness, feared by experts to be S... went on to say that most of the hospitalized were ailing from liver diseases, AIDS, or such other identifiable causes. <B...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...r member of his Nepali Congress party. While the ailing premier has visited her at least thrice, several ministers and senior leaders of the party have also gone to the hospital to enquire after her health. She is regarded as having great influence on the premier and her son, Dr Shekhar Koirala, has had...

Delhi's Morbidity Rate Nearly One-sixth of National Average

...stics of the state revealed that the proportion of ailing persons in Delhi is the lowest among all the states. "The morbidity rate in Delhi was estimated at 17 per thousand people as compared to 99 at the national level, 107 in Punjab, 87 in Haryana, 72 in Rajasthan, 108 in Uttar Pradesh," said Delhi Fina...

Cancer Risk Pronounced in Women With an Ample Waist

...women with a 34 inch waist carry twice the risk of ailing cancer of the womb, as compared// to women who boast of trimmer waists. Nearly 5500 women suffer endometrial cancer every year, a rate that has gone up by 19% as compared to the figures in 1990. Women fifty years ago were much trimmer and therefore...

Prolactin Comes to the Aid of MS Sufferers

... for breast feeding may come// to the aid of those ailing from multiple sclerosis. Scientists have found that prolactin, generated in plenty during pregnancy is equipped to remedy the injured nerve cells which cause the symptoms of MS. This finding could mean better treatments to solve the degenerative ef...

Indian American Launches Stem Cell Treatment of Heart Disease

...m cells isolated from a person's own blood into an ailing heart can repair years of accumulated decay. So far, clinical studies have produced mixed results; but with ongoing trials scientists and cardiologists like Raval hope to nail down the precise set of conditions needed to effectively heal a sick he...

Fugitive Who Ditched His Ailing Son Arrested After a Year

...d from prison in order to donate a kidney to his// ailing son. He has now been captured, along with his girlfriend Leen Ann Howard, after a relentless chase by the in Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Dawn Izgarjan. Perkins was released from jail without bond by a feder...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

...ght on compassionate grounds such as to look after ailing parents/children/siblings, or to look after ancestral property and attend to litigation, or due to failure to acquire minimum qualifications required for promotion or due to "increase in employment opportunities on the civil side", Antony added. A...

Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

... shortly move to cabinet for a revival package for ailing Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL). The 46-year-old company set up to make India self sufficient in drug development is currently a loss-making outfit. It has been incurring losses since its inception except for a brief period of fiv...

Stem Cells Endless Hope in Place of What Could Have Been a Hopeless End

... which would need new blood vessels to rectify the ailing body. Further, stem cells can also be employed to train the immune system to accept the laboratory-grown cells used for repair. This will eventually help in phasing out the contentious cloning methods. Dr Robert Lanza, a senior author, said, Stem...

The American Dream Comes True for 105-year-old Cuban

... former fisherman is convinced he will outlive the ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro he once plotted to assassinate. "He's far less healthy than I am, he can hardly talk," Temprana said of the 80-year-old communist leader who has been recovering from intestinal surgery for almost one year. Beaming wit...

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