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Experimental Drug Reduces Tumor Size When Given With Radiation

...ation and cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug. The main aim of the study was to check what dose would be tolerated by the patients. However it must be noted that not all patients were evaluated....

Health Benefits from the Ocean Snail

...ho want to stop smoking or drinking,.He said, "The aim is to stimulate some receptors but not others." The research revealed that the toxin shows benefits without using the "toxic properties of nicotine." McIntosh work as an undergraduate, with snail venom, at the university led to Prialt, a drug that ...

American War Veterans Not Receiving Enough Care For PTSD

...aid that the VA has expanded its programme with an aim of helping the veterans who were returning with the disorder. The officials at VA explained to have recently completed one of the largest clinical trial ever of individual psychotherapy for PTSD in female veterans. The advocates for the veterans ha...

TB Hospital In Nepal Restarts Its Services

...e hospital was created 35 years ago with a primary aim of being able to provide extensive medical care to complicated tuberculosis patients. It was explained that the TB patients in Nepal had been suffering a lot due to the lack of facilities for treatment with the closure of this only TB hospital from t...

AMA Urges Doctors to be Upfront about Fees

...ey have to pay for their medical procedure. “Our aim is to get as close as possible to 100 per cent informed financial consent for elective cases, where there is adequate notice to enable this to happen properly,” Dr Haikerwal said. “We’re talking about a face-to-face discussion between doctor and pa...

A new deal for childcare services given go-ahead

...ort and preventative care in the community we also aim to reduce the number of children who have to be tr...ort and preventative care in the community we also aim to reduce the number of children who have to be transferred to Paisley or Glasgow for treatment." ...

A New System to Displace False Prescription Claims

... system is underway in Northern Ireland which will aim to bring some reprieve to the prevalent prescription antics, so rampant, that is milking// the government to the tune of ￡7m annually. The system is designed to conduct certain checks of patient and prescription information and comparing them with...

St. John's Wort in Pregnancy and Lactation

...d during pregnancy and lactation. MethodologyThe aim of the study was to systematically review the literature for evidence on the use, safety, and pharmacology of St. John’s wort focusing on issues pertaining to pregnancy and lactation. The investigators searched seven databases for reports relating to...

India Launches A Massive Campaign Against HIV/AIDS In Rural Areas

... 500 villages attended the launch, and its primary aim was to try and enlist their support in controlling the spread of the disease. Denis Broun, the executive director of UNAids stated at the convention that, “Aids is a disease of intimacy and has a lot to do with things that are personal, such as sex...

Abdomen Can Help In Gas Exchange In Lung Failure

...arrying oxygen) from 73% to 89%. Doctors generally aim to keep the oxygen saturation of patients in the 90% range. Friedberg adds, "If this experimental finding can be translated to a critical care setting, this could be a potentially life-saving increase in oxygenation." Friedberg's idea was inspired ...

AIDS Control Programme to Focus on District Level

... sensitised to join the fight against AIDS. "The aim is to build partnership with a countrywide community of locally elected leaders in the rural and urban areas, as they have the potential to influence policies, programming and resource management," she added. India is currently home to 5.21 million...

Global Warming Results In Increased Heat Related Illness

...wave that occurred in California. The study’s main aim is to track the rising temperature to these illness and deaths which would aid in the establishing of new policy and treatment modalities to combat global warming and its associated deaths in the future. There is a sudden increase in the number of he...

Supermarket Chains In UK To Ban The Use Of Trans Fats

..., while authorities from Tesco have said that they aim to remove the oil from all of its own-brand products by the end of this year. It was also reported that the super stores Marks & Spencer have already stopped usage of the oil in all its products since March this year. Experts have welcomed the deci...

New Zealand Announces 10-year Plan For Betterment Of Mental Health Care

...gy has set precedence for action to 2015. The main aim of the plan is to expand the range, quality and choice of services that would be available to the mentally ill and addicts. Mr. Hodgson explained that the Government has invested $999 million for specialist mental health services in the 2006/07 fin...

Doctors Warn on Pregnancy Counselling

...e Australia's abortion rate, it would do better to aim to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies by expanding education and access to contraceptives," he said. "Interventions such as counselling must not attempt to coerce women into making any particular reproductive choice."...

Novel Approach Assists in Locating Leads for Drug Discovery

...ogical activity," Dr. Austin said. "To achieve our aim of speeding the discovery of biological probes and drug targets, we needed a method that offered far greater precision coupled with the capacity to identify chemicals with a wide spectrum of biological activities."In their study published in PNAS, re...

Opposition against Amendments in the Intellectual Property Law

...ector and general public.// These changes mainly aim to restrict the government from buying the cheap generic drugs for deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Officials point out to the fact that these changes in the law block the importation of parallel drugs which are cheaper. Th...

Boots Store Also Extend Its Services to the Hospital Sector

...tization. A Boots spokeswoman said that the main aim of bringing such services to the sores is to increase the access of NHS services to the public and also this would help boost the chemist chain's pharmacy business. The Department of Health believes that such a move would help cut the long waiting l...

Cancer Hospice Opens New In-patient Unit

...e hospice. According to the charity its ultimate aim is to realise its vision for October 2006 towards becoming "one of the very best palliative care hospices in the UK". Still another ￡1.8m has to be raised in order to fund the completion of the project. ...

New Treatment Option in the Pipeline for Those Suffering From Lung Cancers

...stem that uses an accurate, precise robotic arm to aim highly focused x-ray beams at the site of a tumor. Currently there are 76 active CyberKnife sites worldwide (with 45 in the US), and an additional 62 scheduled to be installed globally. Recently, the Pittsburgh researchers upgraded their CyberKnife...

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