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Bilcare Signs Pact With Honeywell for Packaging Solutions

...aid the partnership would help address some of the challenges faced by the pharmaceutical industry, including counterfeit drugs, lack of effective packaging for providing adequate protection to drugs for retaining efficacy and potency throughout their shelf life and accidental misuse of drugs. Source-IANS...

Selenium Supplements May Suppress HIV Viral Load

... needed to confirm this relationship. "Given the challenges of using conventional pharmacotherapy to achieve and maintain virologic suppression in HIV-spectrum disease, our results support the use of selenium as a simple, inexpensive and safe adjunct therapy," the authors conclude. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Forcible Detention and Isolation Needed for XDR-TB Patients, warn Experts

...rica to develop one strategy to deal with the twin challenges of HIV and TB. Although South African law permits enforced isolation some lawyers say it comes into conflict with the constitutional guarantees on individual rights. However, the constitution also guarantees communal rights, including protection f...

Breast Density and the Risk of Cancer

...dy on 1,112 women has brought to the fore, the key challenges involved in preventing breast cancer in women with dense breasts. The study revealed that, those with dense breasts were five times more likely to be afflicted with breast cancer, compared to women with fatty tissue in the breasts. Dense breasts ar...

Conference on Drink and Drug Abuse in Scotland

...ing with those we represent and those who know the challenges and opportunities that will arise." According to Labor backbencher Susan Deacon MSP, the need of the hour is an uninhibited discussion with facts and information on the use of alcohol and drugs....

Women's Sex Lives Mediocre

...do and fertility; ? How menopause presents sexual challenges by instigating both psychological and hormonal changes. Soure-Newswise SRM...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...hem from sexual abuse is one of the most important challenges we are currently facing today. It would be most appropriate if personal safety programmes are integrated into the mainstream school curriculum and reinforced throughout a child's daily life both in school and at home. The personal safety progra...

A Heart-Felt Valentine: Red Wine and White Wine May Be Just as Healthful

... Society Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, challenges the idea that red wine is more heart-healthy white wine. Past studies indicated that the cardioprotective compounds in grapes — polyphenolic antioxidants — reside in the skin and seeds. Grape skins, which contain purple pigment, are crushed with t...

Bowel Cancer and Lifestyle Choices

...l be carried out during this period. A note of the challenges faced by the participants will also be taken. The researchers hope for changes such as weight loss of about five percent, 150 minutes of physical activity per week and healthier diet patterns. The study is named ‘LiveWell’ and hopes to establish a...

Sextuplets Born in Vancouver, Canada

...fants and making them breathe on their own are the challenges faced by the doctors now. Each of these babies weighed around 1.6 pounds. Out of the six born, four are boys and the remaining two are girls. Since these infants have not completed their gestational period, their organs are not fully developed ...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

...ealth as best he could, and accepting life and its challenges as they came. He remained relatively healthy for about 20 years but began to encounter diabetes-related complications – such as a blocked coronary artery – in the late 1990s. Under the care of cardiologist P.K. Shah, M.D., director of Cedars-Sinai’s ...

Why People are Addicted to Video Games?

...t when the games produced positive experiences and challenges that connected to what they know in the real world. The research found that games can provide opportunities for achievement, freedom, and even a connection to other players. Those benefits trumped a shallow sense of fun, which doesn't keep players a...

UN Leader to Deliver Speech Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS

...will discuss how SACI has come to understand these challenges while sharing specific examples. He will present a conceptual framework for responses that link to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) and national development plans. While noting that existing mental models or worldviews have f...

Trans Fat Ban: Watch Saturated Fats and Calories Too

...mmends that other cities monitor the successes and challenges of the trans fat ban in New York City before implementing their own regulations, and also advises that the focus on the new regulations shift to the mandate to display calorie labeling in food service establishments, and educating people about their ...

A Nurse’s Job Is Nerve Breakin

...at nurses face a variety of physical and emotional challenges in a demanding and hectic workplace and it’s certainly affecting their well-being. The statistics shows that about 10 % were injured while on duty in the previous year, stuck by needles or sometimes even physically assaulted by patients. The surv...

Plastic May Be Poisoning Oceans: Scientists

...subsequently to human beings is one of the biggest challenges facing marine scientists today. The plastics industry's response is that much of the research was speculative at this stage. There is very little evidence that this transfer of chemicals is taking place in the wild, they added. Source-IANS...

The GreeneChip- First Tool to Provide Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

...artment of Epidemiology. He added, "To address the challenges of emerging infectious diseases and biodefense, pu...Differential diagnosis of hemorrhagic fevers poses challenges for clinical medicine and public health. Syndromes associated with agents are not distinctive, parti...

Technology Predicts Outcome of Child Heart Surgery

...rk on a system to help surgeons address the unique challenges of Fontan repair. In essence, the system determines how any geometric change in the current heart configuration will change blood flow and strength. To perfect their system, researchers combined computational and experimental studies to create a m...

Fresh Water, HIV Biggest of India's Six Challenges: Chidambaram

...lisation? * Climate change, the environment and challenges to Indian growth - Can India balance the complex trade-offs between the environment and growth? * HIV/AIDS and TB - What will it take to combat the spread of HIV and TB? What if India fails? Of these, Chidambaram termed the spread of HIV as the...

Kids in Sport—Great for Fitness, but Concern About Injurie

...veral articles in the Thematic Issue highlight the challenges of sport-related injuries in young athletes. For e...activity still outweigh the vast majority of these challenges we face today," the Editors conclude. Nevertheless, we hope this special issue is food for thought a...

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