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Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...lth. And it's not just height. Among the 20 most developed countries in the world, the United States is now dead last in life expectancy at birth, but leads the pack in infant mortality -- forty percent higher than the runner-up -- and in the percentage of the population that will die before reaching 60. Ame...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...can seed company, PANNAR Pty Ltd, have reportedly developed a resistant variety of maize that could alleviate ...ca. The MSV-resistant maize is the first GE crop developed and tested solely by Africans. According to Dr. Dionne Shepherd of the University of Cape Town, an...

Clinically Proven Probiotic Supplement Now Available to Pharmacists

...nced disruption of bacterial balance. "ALIGN was developed to help people with a wide-range of episodic digestive upsets," said Mauricio Troncoso, Marketing Director for ALIGN. "So we are thrilled that ALIGN will now be more widely available to consumers." ALIGN has been available through the internet and ...

Indian Boffins to Fight Wrinkles With Camels' Milk

...roperties in the hardy mammal's milk. "The cream developed from camel milk has been given to a hospital's skin department to study it on 20 people for at least four months," centre director K.M.L. Pathak told the United News of India agency. "Only after laboratory experiments and tests would the cream be p...

Eyeglass Guide Launched That Aids in Choosing the Right Eyewear

...ducational resources that Transitions has recently developed as part of its ongoing effort to educate consumers about the importance of eye health. The guide provides information about lens material choices and vision-optimizing enhancements, such as anti-reflective coatings, polarized lenses and photochromic ...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...ug helps. In the US an orphan drug is any drug developed under the Orphan Drug Act of January 1983 ("ODA"), a federal law concerning rare diseases ( or orphan diseases"), defined as diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the United States, prevailing in less than 5 per 10,000 in the community. ...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...again, said John McBean, a mechanical engineer who developed the technology with Kailas Narendran, an electrica...es in all major clinics and rehab hospitals in the developed world, and even in patients homes. Some 700,000 US citizens suffer strokes every year. Of these, s...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...nwhile, say that meeting new targets on clean air, developed in consultation with 80 environmental health experts across the globe, would drastically curtail the number of Chinese pollution deaths. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics round the corner, the Chinese capital has a massive incentive to improve air qu...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

... to diagnose the disease. The scientists have also developed mathematical computer models to determine how fast the disease will progress. "These scanning techniques may be helpful in determining what treatments work and what don't," he said....

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

...), including Duke University. The consortium has developed the computer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http: tinyurl.com/3cgj6z. Its goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections bet...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

... lead to disability. Roche plans to file Actemra, developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. which Roche controls, for regulatory approval in Europe and the U.S. by the end of 2007. This is the third of five international late-stage trials that are investigating Actemra's efficacy...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...s are a major part of national drug expenditure in developed countries, where as many as one person in ten is t... non-thiazide drugs. In Norway, as in many other developed countries, guidelines were introduced to encourage doctors to use thiazides but the level of their u...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...d set of 17 quality indicators for ambulatory care developed by the Stanford investigators, the researchers checked the database to determine whether an electronic health record system enhanced the quality of care. "In essence, we found little difference in the quality of care being provided by physicians wi...

Early Parkinsons Show Hallucination,sleepiness

...ng of the study. The study found nearly one-fifth developed hallucinations, more than one-third of the participants developed sleepiness, and nearly half developed swelling within four years of starting treatment. Multiple hea...

Cocaine Exposure can Alter Neuronal Development in Zebrafish

...ors remains controversial. Using a specifically developed zebrafish, the researchers, Drs. Eva Shang and Irina Zhdanova, found that prenatal exposure to cocaine, in concentrations comparable to those experienced by human embryos, altered the neuronal development in zebrafish and acutely changed embryonic ex...

Researchers Develop First Mouse Model of Lung Transplantation

...on University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed the first mouse model of lung transplantation , an...e Okazaki and his Washington University colleagues developed the mouse model, researchers had been studying lung transplantation using a nonphysiological mouse m...

Too Skinny Models Banned from Performing in Rome Fashion Show

...iel said his fashion house wanted to respect rules developed in December to combat anorexia among fashion models, but added: "It's not our fault if (agencies) send us girls who are too skinny." Under the new rules, girls under 16 cannot take to the catwalk, and models must produce a certificate proving that ...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

...tions may receive unintended windfalls while least developed countries may continue to struggle for access. U... country's ability pay. Finally, the world's least developed countries would be granted the ability to issue royalty-free compulsory licenses during health emerg...

Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

...step in this research is to use the assays his lab developed to cast a wider net to find additional compounds that have similar properties to 2-Methoxy antimycin, Hockenbery said. This strategy has already yielded one additional Bcl-xL inhibitor with "gain of function" activity, reported in the Molecular Cance...

Hospital Infection Affecting Patients in Scotland

...nts were being treated on the day and how many had developed infections while there. It recorded the presence o...r use of antibiotics. He said: "The organism has developed resistance to many of the antibiotics we use in hospital."...

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