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Novel "CYCLOSPORINE CAPSULE FORMULATION" to be launched

...e patent for the drug and enjoyed the profits. The cost of the medicine is prohibitively expensive.However in the past few years other pharma companies have been allowed to manufacture the drug giving Novartis a competetion. The current tablet size are big and makes it uncomfortable to swallow. The pharm...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...ast from a distance. But apart from the phenomenal cost that goes into fireworks we fail to realize that fireworks are death sentences for the severely asthmatic people and the worst affected are children who literally choke to death during these ironically happy occasions. Almost all major hospitals ac...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

... a three-drug combination for AIDS treatment would cost less than a U.S. dollar a day. Not to be left far behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people ...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...pital will come up at Birmingham, Alabama and will cost around 120 to 125 million U.S. dollars.The project...hey said, the improvements will reduce the overall cost of care.It was also added at the briefing that another 10 sites where the hospital can be duplicated...

South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

...ignment of one million AIDS detecting kits free of cost estimated around seven million U.S. Dollars. Earlier last year the South African president Thabo Mbeki caused a flutter when he openly questioned whether the HIV actually caused AIDS. He had then questioned the wisdom of the scientists and said the ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...al. "IVRI supplies vaccines to state governmentsat cost price," Dr Lal says....

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...ut the tubes' impact on hearing decades later. The cost of surgery is about $2,000 to $3,000. "This study should encourage families to be a bit more willing to wait to have their child undergo surgery," said Perrin. Other doctors say the new findings will likely lead to discussions about re-evaluating ...

TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa

...together and the major stumbling block is the high cost of drugs used to treat tuberculosis. The classical symptoms are gradual loss of weight, evening rise of body temperature, and moderate to severe cough. The disease spreads through air as droplets when a person coughs or sneezes and the sputum carries...

Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

... costing around Rs. 18,000 (nearly on third of the cost of the imported artificial valves) has been successfully commercialized by TTK Healthcare Limited (formerly TTK Pharma), Chennai and is marketed under the brand name of TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis. The product had already been tested in the U.S...

The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live

...d. In more than 25% of the cases the HAART regime cost elevation of liver enzymes to more than five times the upper limit of normal resulting in severe liver toxicity. The drug cocktails have however clearly improved the condition of the patient in terms of controlling the HIV disease but the side effec...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...s and AIDS activists say that this would lower the cost of medicines to ordinary South Africans suffering from the disease but the expensive anti retroviral drugs are still way above the reach of an average South African. South Africa has nearly five million people or more than one tenth of its populatio...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...ted antifungal drug Diflucan will be given free of cost to battle HIV through a programe to be coordinated by World Health Organization and the United Nations. "Together with our partners in the United Nations and the WHO, we now have a framework to offer Diflucan to the least-developed nations targeted ...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...ted antifungal drug Diflucan will be given free of cost to battle HIV through a programe to be coordinated by World Health Organization and the United Nations. "Together with our partners in the United Nations and the WHO, we now have a framework to offer Diflucan to the least-developed nations targeted ...

Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

... capture export markets increasingly by leveraging cost advantages and precluding cut-throat competition which would be detrimental to the industry. This was stated by the Commerce Secretary, Mr. Prabir Sengupta, at the opening the Regional Office of the Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Exp...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...on HIV/AIDS, physicians demanded to bring down the cost of anti retroviral therapy that would cater the AI...not be abondoned the treatment just because of the cost of these drugs. Dr. Kaninda, at an MSF-sponsored panel discussion pointed that expensive antiretrov...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...s this week and each vial, a day's treatment, will cost $380....

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...of cases of malaria, sponging the cattle saved the cost to around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spraying.It was also found that such methods adopted to eradicate the ...

Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk

...d heart attacks and consequently deaths. The drugs cost only about Rs 300 a month. That was found to be true for all patients regardless of ethnicity, sex and age. The new study has revealed that over 5,00,000 of these could be prevented by using a combination of Perindopril (a high-blood pressure medi...

Coronary heart disease bids Adieu

... Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model to assess the cost effectiveness of lowering levels of homocystine through grains fortified with folic acid and with cyanocobalamin and folic acid among participants in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.// Their model predicted that grains fo...

Setting up a new pharmaceutical industry in India

...nsure the known quality. The reduced manufacturing cost will help the company to sell the products at very competitive price. The high investment in India is an evidence that company is committed to serve the Indian pharmaceutical industry....

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