Tag: "distribution" at medical news

Vaccine to quit smoking?

...nts, the vaccine was effective in preventing brain distribution of nicotine. For India? We need a Beedi Vaccine!...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...he guesswork that the US company would convert the distribution arrangement into a financial bind. Ranbaxy has ruled out the possibility of forming a joint venture with Dade Behring for the diagnostic business, which is a part of Ranbaxy. The company's main motive is to develop this anti-viral drug rather than gr...

Big and Bright

...ompared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the conne...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

..., and four left-handed men, which approximates the distribution of those reported in population studies of those who stutter. Besides attempting to determine a correlation between the shape and size of brain features and stuttering, the study soought to determine whether sex and hand writing preference influenc...

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

The supreme court of India has declared that distribution of physician's sample by pharmaceutical companies ... publicity or sales promotion. The purpose of such distribution was to obtain a feed back from medical profession as to the efficacy of the distributed drugs. The...

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

...erage its combined marketing prowess and extensive distribution network. Ranbaxy official said that the company is keen that the benefits of Ciprofloxacin in terms of convenience and better patient compliance should percolate to the maximum number of doctors and patients. The company believes that the Ciprofloxa...

Supply of Radiopharmaceuticals Hampered by Attacks

...l days, which severely affected the production and distribution of radiopharmaceuticals. Most radiopharmaceuticals are shipped via air due to their specific nature. These products are either radioactive themselves or they are pharmaceuticals with a radioactive component, and are used in diagnosis or therapy base...

Iodex goes to SmithKline Beecham consumer Healthcare

...a GSK subsidiary. SKBCH has a strong marketing and distribution network in India, comprising over 1,600 wholesaler...e Iodex brand, the entire promotion, marketing and distribution will be carried out by SKBCH, a leading player in the OTC segment. The Iodex brand was owned by Sm...

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...ompared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the conne...

Fast screening for macular degeneration

...ion takes hold. In Raman scattering, the spatial distribution of retinal pigment can be imaged. Any abnormal patterns, which may indicate AMD, can rapidly be detected. The research is currently being done with human eye tissue, but the knowledge gained will form the basis for population screening. Information o...

New imaging technique for tracking Alzheimer's

...heimer brain. They found that there was sequential distribution of brain areas starting with the areas that are concerned with memory followed by emotional and inhibition control, and finally sensation. But areas controlling vision and some other functions are spared. The information available through this new t...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...that this relationship was independent of the size distribution of apo(a) isoforms....

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

..., it is not the amount of fat that matters but the distribution of the fat that is important, when it comes to the... 1,356 women aged between 60 and 85 whose body fat distribution and amount of atherosclerosis in the abdominal part of the aorta was measured. Atherosclerosis in th...

Reducing HIV Transmission

... to all of us to focus on development of equitable distribution and effective use of these agents now....

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...id gland) and monitors the magnitude, severity and distribution of iodine deficiency worldwide. The number of countries where iodine deficiency is a public health problem was reduced to 54 in 2003, from 110 in 1993, showing the effectiveness of the universal salt iodization strategy, says the WHO report. WHO al...

Environmental Factors Found To Have An Impact On The Sex of A Child

...Being the first study of its kind to show that the distribution of sex chromosomes in sperm can be affected by exposure to POPs ,researchers say the study set up did not enable them to determine if the increase in the Y chromosome sperm would lead to more boys being born. Thus researchers say that much larger stu...

Environmental Factors Found To Have An Impact On The Sex of A Child

...Being the first study of its kind to show that the distribution of sex chromosomes in sperm can be affected by exposure to POPs ,researchers say the study set up did not enable them to determine if the increase in the Y chromosome sperm would lead to more boys being born. Thus researchers say that much larger stu...

Obesity in the Middle age can increase risk of developing dementia

... considered overweight. Individualswith a greater distribution of subscapular or tricepsskin fold thickness had more risk of dementia.The authors attributed the possible link of middle ageobesity to dementia to the fact that adiposity eitherdirectly or through predisposition to cardiovasculardisease and diabetes...

Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria

...ellems and his colleagues found uneven and reduced distribution of PfEMP-1 on the surface of parasite-infected red...with at least one hemoglobin C gene. This abnormal distribution of PfEMP-1 significantly impairs the infected cells’ “stickiness.” For instance, laboratory-grown, p...

Women cured of anorexia nervosa have redistributed body fat after weight gain

...agnetic resonance imaging to find out the body fat distribution in them versus in typically healthy women of the same age. The results of the study show that in the short term, for anorexic women, weight gain tend to collect around the abdominal areas. Reference: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, June 2005...

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