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Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...fact they are better than surgeons - they are much cheaper and work 24 hours a day," Professor Boulton jokingly said. "They have been used since the Napoleonic Wars and in the American Civil War they found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kept them clean. They remove...

National Pharmaceutical Policy Referred to Ministerial Panel

...day. The policy envisages ways to make available cheaper drugs to people and the public health system as also to promote the production and marketing of generic drugs in the country, said B.K. Handique, minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers and parliamentary affairs. The policy was taken up by...

New Blood Test to Diagnose Parkinson Disease

...blic who are at risk of developing it. It will be cheaper and quicker results could be achieved. Dr Qiao-Xin Li and colleagues from The University of Melbourne and The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, along with Prof Malcolm Horne from the Howard Florey Institute, found people with PD had low ...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

...manufactured by different laboratories will be 90% cheaper than the cost of popular over-the-counter drugs. Walmex will be buying the drugs from labs such as Canifarma that caters to more than 150 pharmaceutical companies. SAV/V...

Lifestyle changes not prescription drugs to fight diabetes, say scientists

...ork, but so does weight loss, which is a safer and cheaper way to avoid type 2 diabetes, the researchers argue. In the British Medical Journal, Professor Victor Montori and colleagues, from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, warn against turning healthy people into patients and facing the risk of side e...

Retail Clinics Becoming Increasingly Popular in US

...al healthcare industry in the US. It is relatively cheaper and more easily// accessible. According to a new s...unaffordable for large sections of the people, any cheaper option is welcome. Of course they treat common ailments only — such as ear infections, allergies, ...

Rajasthan Directs Doctors to Prescribe Medicines by Generic Names

...ent of various ailments could become 40-50 percent cheaper with the use of generic medicines, an official at the medical and health department said. Special committees are also being constituted in all hospitals linked to state-run medical colleges to monitor whether the doctors are prescribing generic med...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...rgy there to desalinate sea water. And it would be cheaper than trying to provide enough water to Sanaa,' the minister explained. Anyway this is not the first time that Yemenis would be moving to avoid disaster. It's happened many times in the last few thousand years, when Nature allowed the population t...

Government Entreated To ‘Haggle’ To Save Money For Medicae

...for America's Future, says that the savings from cheaper prices could be diverted to either enhance coverage or pay for other health care programs. Under the current benefit, called Part D, Medicare offers voluntary prescription drug coverage through dozens of private health insurance plans but is not a...

FDA Cites Challenges of Generic Biotech

...ceutical Inc. and Mylan Laboratories Inc to market cheaper versions of traditional drugs after the originals ... said that if Congress creates a system to approve cheaper protein-based drugs it should be similar to one already used by the European Union. Under the EU s...

'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

... organic, rather than inorganic, oxides. These are cheaper to manufacture and require less power. The prototype glasses are powered by a watch battery that attaches to the glasses frame, and the wearer spins a tiny dial on the arm of the glasses to change color or shade. The lenses were created by sandwic...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...llective purchasing power to negotiate premiums at cheaper rates. In this context, the state plans to expand its subsidized health insurance program for low-income working adults. In addition, under the plan, health insurance would be transferable, nonemergency care would be diverted to local clinics and ...

Generic Biologics – U.S Panel Hearing Draws Mixed Response

...re varied reactions to the U.S panel hearing that cheaper versions of biologic drugs// can be manufactured. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is considering legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to approve alternative versions of expensive b...

Extreme Treatment for Obese Teens Becoming a Fad

... norm as foods high in fat; sugar and salt are now cheaper and more readily available than ever in the form of burgers, pizzas, fries, sweets etc. Yet these young people still represent less than 1 percent of patients undergoing such procedures in 2003, the researchers say. Doctors caution that while the ...

Ticking Time Bomb of Scotland-diabetes

...today’s modern lifestyle and oneself. Fast food cheaper and more affordable than ever, youths spending too many hours in front of the TV or PC and even driving short distances in favor of walking,all these, have played their part in bringing diabetes to a status of being an epidemic. According to D...

Nepal to Introduce Art of Living for Golfers

...ughly $1,500. For Indians, taking into account the cheaper airfare, it will be a little less. The unique idea of starting an Art of Living camp for golfers evolved when Le Meridien director Suman Sachdev met a senior teacher of the course, Rukmini Prabhakar, in Dubai. For the first camp - which will lead...

Cheap Anti-malarial Drug

... the other companies to manufacture this drug at a cheaper rate for developing nations. The cheaper price of this drug would dissuade the counterfeiters from making them as there is no profit for them...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...more people turning to the internet to find either cheaper drugs, drugs without prescription, the promised wonder drugs – which can so called solve all their problems, and websites that provide online consultation with cyber doctors is in fact a matter of increasing global concern. Studies done by the Unit...

The Philippine Government's Half-priced Medicine Program to Be Expanded

...lable to any drugstore willing to sell medicine at cheaper prices. "The reason why we asked the Philippine ...putable," the president pointed out stressing that cheaper medicine does not mean bad quality. The president assured that commonly used medicine such as thos...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

...been issued to cover three medications which allow cheaper copies to be made or imported, including an HIV drug made by the giant US firm Merck Sharp and Dome. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health is expected to expand the list of medicines covered by compulsory licence, using the public health rules of th...

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