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British Scientists Discover New Protein to Treat Epilepsy and Schizophrenia

...nesses like schizophrenia. "We would like to see continued investment in such research that will lead to a third generation of antipsychotic medicines with fewer side effects."...

Too Much TV Watching Linked With Poor Academic Performance in Teens

...avioural or academic difficulties. The researchers continued collecting information from the parents and interviewed the teens again at age 16, and again at ages 22 and 33. The 20-year study, begun in the mid of 1980s, found that at age 14, most of the children watched between one and three hours of televisi...

Dabur India Q4 Profit Surges 31%

...Care categories. The Health Supplements category continued its strong performance ending the year with a growth of 19.5 per cent. Dabur India's Home Care portfolio sales also surged 35.1 per cent, with Odonil growing by 28.2 per cent and Odomos by 71 per cent. The Board of Directors has recommended that th...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

...sionals and patients across geographies. Ranbaxy's continued focus on R&D has resulted in several approvals in developed markets and significant progress in New Drug Discovery Research. The Company's foray into Novel Drug Delivery Systems has led to proprietary "platform technologies", resulting in a number of...

Britains Complacent Attitude To Uptake Of New Cancer Drugs Revealed

...the national cancer director last year confirmed a continued increase in the uptake of new cancer drugs by the NHS following positive Nice appraisal. "It also confirmed a reduction in the variation of use of these drugs around the country. We have reiterated in recent guidance that NHS should not withhold fund...

US County to Compensate Woman Wrongly Quarantined for TB

... isolation, Ryan was allowed to return to work but continued on multiple medications, Kitson said. Then, the Health Department apparently rechecked the results and discovered that Ryan did not have tuberculosis after all. On May 16, he said, a Health Department doctor called Ryan and told her to "discontinu...

Florence Nightingales of India Honored by President

...n in the country. However, this Award could not be continued and has been revived from this year. One award is earmarked for each State/Union Territory subject to the availability of nursing personnel with meritorious services. Each award carries a Certificate of Merit and Cash award of Rs.50, 000/-. Nurses ...

Bird Flu Outbreak Expands in Vietnam

...strain. International health officials fear that continued contact with humans raises the risk that the virus might adapt to become easily contagious among people. If that happened, it could touch off the first global flu pandemic in decades. Previous influenza pandemics have killed from 1 million to 40 m...

Deforestation Plays a Critical Role in Climate Change: Study

...sphere. The results showed that tropical forests continued to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they became less efficient at higher temperatures. The new body of information shows considerable value in preserving tropical forests such as those in the Amazon and Indonesia as car...

Six Towns in India Selected for Eco-City Project

...initiated during the Tenth Five Year Plan is being continued during the first year of the Eleventh Plan. This Eco-City Programme was initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in the Tenth Five Year Plan, which is being implemented by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) through the concerned S...

Mammogram Rates On The Decline In America

...rams leveled in 2000, began to decline in 2003 and continued to decrease through 2005, the final year of the study. It was also noted that a 6.8 percent decline in the rate among women ages 50 to 64 was the largest of any age group. Experts say that this is worrying as women in this group are the most l...

Gene Thought to Help Kill Cancer Cells may Actually Help Them Thrive

...similar to patients with benign tumors. As they continued their analysis, they found that the main difference between the groups' genetic profiles was the gene p53. While both groups had roughly the same amount of the protein encoded by p53, the cancer group had mutations in their p53 that caused the genes ...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

...tat change, compared to the white-tailed deer that continued to grow in large numbers despite hunting and suburban sprawl. The bison nurses its young for 283 days on average; the deer just 80, said Price in her study, which appears online in the May 16 issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B...

Thailand Will Not Issue Compulsory Licenses for Patented Drugs

...Since then, the government and drug companies have continued negotiations. Abbott earlier this week offered to sell Aluvia at a reduced price in Thailand on the condition that the country agrees not to allow generic versions of the drug into the market, Siriwat Thiptaradol, secretary-general of Thailand's Food...

Clock Gene Plays Role in Weight Gain, Study Finds

...ound, Green said. We thought that over time, as we continued to feed the mutant mice the high fat diet, that th...e expected rate, but it never happened. These mice continued to stay slim while the normal mice nearly doubled in weight and developed fatty livers. Green said...

Sanctions Imposed On Zimbabwe Can Threaten International Health Security

...dded that despite the punitive sanctions, Zimbabwe continued to make great strides in health delivery with the limited resources at its disposal. Such achievements, he said, included the decline in the HIV and Aids prevalence from 21 percent to 18,1 percent and the drop in malaria cases from three million to...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...ne as treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications. I had in my luggage a significant quantity of these medications since I was to be on location in Thailand for three months. On arrival in Sydney, the medications were never hidden in any way and without hesitation I showed ...

Where Indigenous Mothers Live Affects The Health Of Their Babies

...cularly disadvantaged. Our study highlights the continued need to consider the different risk profiles including remoteness of mothers when designing antenatal programs, says Dr Sullivan. Dr Sullivan says the health of Indigenous mothers in remote areas partially explains the higher prevalence of poor he...

New Brain Neuromarker May Shed Light on Autism and Schizophrenia

...m was removed so they could see each other as they continued to wag their fingers. When subjects were allowed to see each others fingers moving, sometimes they adjusted their own movements and synchronized with each other, and sometimes they did not, behaving independently. While many interactions between p...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

...rrett's esophagus, a condition associated with the continued reflux of stomach acids into the lower esophagus that can damage its lining over time. While this condition is relatively common, a small percentage of patients will go on to develop abnormal cell growth known as dysplasia, a condition that can lead ...

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