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Draft National Policy on Sight-saving Drugs unacceptable

...rimary care trusts recommend its use because it is cheaper than pegaptanib and ranibizumab. DTB says that bevacizumab might provide a lower cost alternative, but cautions that there is as yet no robust evidence of its safety and effectiveness in the treatment of macular degeneration. Therefore, we cannot r...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...plane." Lower fuel-costs could in theory lead to cheaper long-haul travel, aviation industry analysts say. ...rbus as they seek to achieve the same objective -- cheaper air travel. In response to Boeing's Dreamliner, Airbus has announced plans for a further new model, ...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

... are especially at risk, because unhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available than healthy food. Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised to get their own snacks. Low-income neighborhoods have fewer good supermarkets with fresh produce. Meanwhile, it's harder for children to exercise...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

...cheap drugs, as the prices of Indian drugs are far cheaper than those of Pakistan. Dr Qaiser Waheed, President of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA), was quoted as saying, that low cost of Indian medicine is the major factor behind the flood of medicines in Pakistans pharmaceutical ma...

Novel Light Weight Polymers Made Up of Carbon Nanotubes

...king it extremely lightweight, corrosion-proof and cheaper to produce than metal. The carbon nanotubes play a...And plastic insulators are lightweight, stable and cheaper to produce, but cannot conduct electricity. So the goal, originally, was to take plastic and make it...

MIT's Green Nano-factories to Produce Eco-friendly Batteries

... is working with viruses to build faster , better, cheaper and environmentally-friendly transistors, batteries, solar cells, diagnostic materials for detecting cancer, and semiconductors for use in modern electrical devices. Viruses are normally associated with causing human diseases like AIDS, polio, and ...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

...ory licenses, which allow countries to manufacture cheaper versions of patented pharmaceuticals for non-commercial use or in cases of health care emergencies. Just recently, Brazil and Thailand have invoked these rules simply to lower the cost of expensive AIDS and heart medications-a strategy that Cahoy a...

Nepal Develops More Effective Drug for Typhoid

...itable for developing countries like Nepal. "It is cheaper than Cefixime. While a full course of Cefixime costs about 10 dollars, full course of Gatifloxacin costs 1 dollar," Basnyat added. The Nepal Health Research Council has approved the research. However, Bhupendra Bahadur Thapa, the director of the Dep...

Singapore's HIV/AIDS Cases Rise by Record Levels in 2006

...rring instead to focus on using more effective and cheaper methods such as preventing mother-to-child infections....

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...kes work and money to do that. The new method is a cheaper way of knocking out a gene as well as regulatory sequences. The new method is a faster, cheaper way of mutating DNA, costing $200 to create each mouse with a mutant gene or other DNA sequence, alt...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...r market - a litre of Tea Cola would definitely be cheaper than a bottle of water," Hazarika noted. The pro...of a tea pill is 50 paise - the cost could be even cheaper when manufactured in bulk. "The idea to launch the two products in Assam is mainly to get a feedba...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

...who suffer. "Our technology is more accurate and cheaper than the present ultrasound machine. This will help women to know their pregnancy status in the fifth week after they conceive," T.G. Srivastava, who has developed the technology, told IANS. A professor at the Reproductive Biomedicine Department o...

Boffins Develop New Technique to Hunt Illness-causing Mutants in Non-gene DNA

...to do that," Capecchi says. The new method is "a cheaper way of knocking out a gene as well as regulatory sequences," he adds. He, however, admits that the savings are not proportionate because more mutant mice must be bred to obtain desired mutants....

Special Backpacks Provide Much Needed Relief for Cancer Patients

...r night care staff for these patients. "It is much cheaper to have patients stay in a four-star hotel in central London so it is saving the NHS money."...

Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US

...appeals court cleared the way for Apotex to sell a cheaper generic version of the blood pressure drug. The judge, however, rejected Apotex's claims that his findings in the Plavix case were similar to the overturned Norvasc ruling. Sherman said Apotex will pursue the Plavix case "full bore and work relentl...

IMA Accuses US Companies for Selling Recycled Prosthesis in India

...mpanies of selling recycled prosthesis in India at cheaper prices . "It is shocking but true that US compani...dia but in US it is sold for $6000. "The secret of cheaper prices in India is that the US companies are selling recycled ones here," Kumar told IANS. Accordi...

New Transgenic Mushrooms Raise Hope for Mass Production of Human Drugs

...ucing biopharmaceuticals is potentially faster and cheaper with mushrooms than conventional technologies. "With mushrooms, we can use commercial technology to convert the vegetative tissue from mushroom strains stored in the freezer into vegetative seed. A crop from which drugs may be extracted could be re...

BMA Scotland Publishes Plan to Tackle Scotland's Drink Problem

... which in some cases has resulted in alcohol being cheaper than bottled water. 2. Undertake research into the measures by which pricing mechanisms can be used in Scotland to discourage heavy consumption of high alcohol products. Strong evidence suggests that increasing the price of alcohol may be an ef...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...rds are in the works. This will make it easier and cheaper for farmers to get the kind of accreditation that is recognised abroad. But for now, the impetus for organic agriculture is coming not from small farmers in remote areas far from markets, but from city-based businesses and activists. In New Delhi...

Brits Experiencing Moth Trouble With Their Cashmeres

...claimed that the popularity of cashmere, which is cheaper and more readily available than ever has meant more and more people are experiencing trouble with moths . Pest control company Rentokil was quoted by Scotsman as saying that the number of calls received to deal with moths has risen by 25 per cent ...

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