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Pain – Researchers Take Pains to Understand the Aches of Older Peopl

...ow it can be relieved. Dr David Humes said: "Our aim is to discover whether inflammation of the bowels causes the pain of diverticular disease. We will test new anti-inflammatory drugs to see if they could become a valuable treatment for this condition, which in varying degrees affects as many as two-t...

Campaign for Safe Drinking Water in India, Nepal

...meet here. Meanwhile, the project in Nepal would aim at improving water management in the country by giving the people access to potable water through the WHO (World Health Organisation)-approved purification methods, he said. There will also be extensive awareness campaign on sanitation. In all, the...

Hormone Replacement Therapy – To Choose Or No

...o general approach to menopause treatment, and the aim is to individualize treatment further and help each woman come to an informed choice about whether or not she wants to opt for HRT. Consequentially, what many experts want now is a statement from the regulatory authorities that HRT is safe when u...

U.N. Envoy Calls for E.U. Health Plan To Help Tackle TB, HIV in Africa

... called for a European Union initiative that would aim to curb the spread of TB and HIV in Africa.// Speaking before the E.U. Parliament's development committee, Sampaio said that the two diseases are spreading rapidly across the continent and that African countries are unable to combat them without a...

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

...t or left the service. British medical secretaries aim for 99.8 percent accuracy in transcriptions." Reports from Liverpool say that medical secretaries in the trust are furious on being asked to describe how they did their jobs to see if the work could be transferred to India and the Philippines. Un...

Ray of Hope for Women on Motherhood Day

... "While the decline is decent yet commendable, our aim is not just to bring down the number of deaths, but to avoid it completely. So yes, I think this is definitely a good, even if slow, start to the ultimate realization of our goal," Gogoi told IANS. The WRA movement was launched in India in 1999, re...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...bacteria produce OspC on their surface. With the aim of developing a vaccine that would trigger an immune response against both these life cycle stages, Dunn's team used methods of recombinant DNA to create new proteins that combine the most immunogenic portions of OspA and OspC — that is, the regions ...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...s long and tens of thousands of times larger, they aim to faithfully reproduce every last nanofiber of Bucky's being. "We want to get across that NanoBucky is made up of individual carbon nanofibers standing on end," says Greenberg. "If the students' fingers were small enough, this is what a surface w...

United Biotech Launches New Oncology Division

... short term growth plan in the oncology segment we aim to tap the global oncology generics business opportunity worth $14–15 billion dollars in the next five years. While our long term growth plan in the oncology segment will come through new drug delivery systems (NDDS) being developed by our in-house s...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pledges $500M To Fund Anti-Obesity Programs

...undation. The RWJF money will fund programs that aim to improve access to low-cost, healthy foods and to increase physical activity in schools and communities. Other efforts could include education for adults to teach children about good nutrition and exercise, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Moure...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

...ght and are customarily sewn up afterwards. The aim of the process is to ensure the woman is faithful to her future husband. Some communities consider girls ineligible for marriage if they have not been circumcised. Girls as young as three undergo the process, but the age at which the operation is ...

New Age Sweetener Launched for Diabetics

...ves no bitter taste afterwards. “With Cutkal, we aim to broaden our product offering to the Indian diabetic population. Cutkal will further reinforce our position as the complete solution provider for diabetic management in India,” said Mr Prashant Tewari, Managing Director of USV Ltd. The advantages o...

Massachusetts Leads The Way In Health Reforms

...tands as a model for other states in America which aim to make health insurance cover// accessible and affordable to all its people. A series of debates by the panel analyzed the elements of state health reforms organized by the Kaiser Family Foundation and National Governors Association Center for Bes...

Study Links Tooth Decay and Gum Infections to Ethnicity and Country of Origin

...te to oral infections. "My future research will aim to identify which specific factors are behind individual ethnic differences," said Dr. Cruz, "so that preventive measures can be developed, such as diagnostic tests that pinpoint the presence of harmful oral bacteria that may be more common in certai...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...be delivered via this new method, but the ultimate aim of the research group is to establish a technology platform that could be used for the delivery of a variety of vaccines and biotech drugs. "The pulsed micro-jets…open up new possibilities in needle-free delivery of macromolecular drugs," say the r...

AMA Urges Government To Amend Aged Care Legislation

...s amount of paperwork and detract from the central aim of the legislation. “There’s a danger that the resulting mountain of red tape would divert resources from where they are needed most and from where the public expects the duty of care to be highest – reporting and addressing the shocking and intol...

Gene Study Offers Hope of Potent Anti-cancer Drugs

...he DNA of healthy cells from the same patient. The aim was to find the mutations that are present only in the tumor cells, and which could be implicated in their growth. The scientists concentrated on a class of gene called the kinases, which are known to play a role in cancer. They identified about 1,...

New Initiative to Combat Infant Mortality

...tely and thus help reduce infant mortality. 'Our aim is to reduce infant mortality rate in the country. The first week is the crucial period for the infant as 50 per cent of the mortality occurs in this week,' the official has been quoted as saying. In the initial phase, the scheme, which is part of ...

Manufacturers of Infant Formula Milk Asked to Do Away With Exaggerated Nutritional Claims

...ey will have to go from packs and advertising. The aim is to ensure that new mothers are not unduly influenced when deciding their feeding practices. The legislation is framed in a way that it doesn't matter whether they are correct or not. It is designed to promote breastfeeding.' AV...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...rough private or public health plans. The ultimate aim of the bill is to offer universal health coverage to all state residents within five years. According to the bill, unmarried adults ages 19 to 25 would be eligible to remain on their parents' health insurance and their employers would be able to c...

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