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Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...As a result legislators are now moving// to ensure availability of lower-cost copies of biotechnology drugs that now cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Generics are now allowed only for traditional, chemical compounds whose patents have expired. You can't get them for complex biological drugs...

Penguin: an Alternative Bio-indicator to Monitor Climate Change

...deeper for food, that tells us something about the availability of particular fish in regions of the Antarctic. We may be able to assess the pressure exerted by king penguins on this ecosystem, and look at the effects of both climate change and overfishing in this region of the world”, says Dr Lewis Halsey. A n...

Combining Therapies can Improve Survival for Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients

...importance of establishing processes to ensure the availability of archived tumor specimens for all randomized adjuvant trials. The era in which such large important trials should be carried out without the archived correlational tumor samples is over." Source-Eurekalert ME/B...

TB Cases, Deaths Decline in Yemen Because of Awareness Programs

...nsive awareness campaign about the disease and the availability of training programs// for health workers, experts said recently, IRIN News reports. According to World Health Organization statistics, TB incidence in Yemen has decreased from 236 cases per 100,000 people in 1990 to 82 cases per 100,000 people in ...

Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows

...d a history of drug dependence. "With increasing availability and use of amphetamines, the burden on emergency services willcontinue to grow." About half of all patients admitted for amphetamine use were aged between 20 and 29 years, themajority of them single white men. Amphetamine use is associated with v...

More Foreign Trained Doctors Receive Licenses

... general practitioners widened their practice. The availability of family physicians also witnessed a decline due to retirement of doctors or doctors shifting their practice to other locations. The ever-growing population of Ontario has escalated the problem, placing a demand on health services. SAV...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

...East, a study reveals. There is a singular lack of availability of medicines to meet the situation. Worse awareness level leaves a lot to be desired, says Srimanta Sankaradeva Nethralaya, a premier eye care institution that conducted the study.It also expressed concern at the lack of specialist pediatric and oph...

Educational Video Increases Knowledge but Not Behavior

...atients' knowledge of macular degeneration and the availability of adaptive devices and techniques, it did not change their emotional response to their disease or motivate them to make changes that could improve their quality of life," says Dr. Eli Peli, senior scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute and sen...

Improved Platelet Life Span Increases Better Patient Care

...red in blood banks. This will in turn increase the availability of platelets for an extended period of time. An...ife span of blood bank platelets, increasing their availability to patients receiving cancer treatment and others in danger of serious bleeding". At the opposite ...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...hospitals should also improve, not to speak of the availability of drugs. And give back the choice to the patients. If they want the DOTS, that is fine. But if they want the SAT, ensure that one-size-fits-all approach has never worked anywhere, it is not going to in TB treatment either, the veteran crusader fee...

Exercising With Peers Has Added Appeal

...nd physically active lifestyles” by increasing the availability of group exercise opportunities across the life span. While his experience shows there is no single type of activity program that will work for all adults, Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, Ph.D., head of the department of kinesiology and community health at ...

Malaria-curing Herb Must Be Carefully Farmed - WHO

... of the plant's cultivation and collection. "The availability of these treatments still falls short of what is needed." Resistance to conventional anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine or amodiaquine have triggered great demand for artemisinin therapy which the WHO has recommended since 2001 in combination ...

Donate Kidney And Get Released From Jail Soon

...d 7000 of these people die annually due to the non availability of organ donors. Earlier federal law passed in 1984 on organ transplant is reported to be contradictory to the present recommendation on organ donation. But Senator Anderson is very optimistic and feels that this legislation will be passed. Accordi...

Exclusive Cardiac Care Unit Required at Mackay Base Hospital

...Hospital. The services were enabled depending upon availability of beds. The report has urged the state to review all areas of Queensland and assess whether Mackay is equipped with the staff, infrastructure, resources to facilitate the functioning of additional services, such as cardiology. A request for a new ...

Cardiology Department, Need of the Hour at Mackay Base Hospital

...Hospital. The services were enabled depending upon availability of beds. The report has urged the state to review all areas of Queensland and assess whether Mackay is equipped with the staff, infrastructure, resources to facilitate the functioning of additional services, such as cardiology. A request for a new ...

Flood of Fake Drugs Must Be Stopped, Warns UN

...ng to the INCB report, another problem is the wide availability of controlled drugs – narcotics, benzodiazepines, amphetamines and other internationally controlled drugs are easily obtainable in many developing countries. In addition, countries with weak regulations are most vulnerable to the marketing of count...

Yale Researchers Weigh the Science on Soft Drinks and Health

...ny states consider legislation to limit soft drink availability in schools, public debate has centered on whether these beverages in themselves pose a significant public health risk. “It is alarming that industry-funded studies so consistently favor industry and that these reports muddy what are otherwise clea...

Time to Overhaul Australia's Medicines Safety Surveillance System

...s fallen behind the rest of the world, despite the availability of excellent data.” Under the proposed system, new drugs would be given provisional approval with a ‘Caution – New Medicine’ rating, and be required to undergo strict periodic review using linked population health data-sets. “Periodic review woul...

Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

...s. Transmission of prion diseases has impacted the availability and cost of blood donations, especially in Europe. In the Lancet study, the researchers took the blood of scrapie-infected hamsters and removed the white blood cells using a device called a leukofilter. The leukoreduced blood was then passed throug...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

...cial support for the survivors and their families, availability of safe drinking water and removal of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) now-defunct pesticide plant. Source-IANS...

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