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The Science of Happiness

...dgery of dealing with despair is now a million dollar industry. Designer drugs, some of which are recreational, impart a false sense of well being which is quickly replaced by apathy and depression. Anti depressants may help to suppress negative emotions but they do not help to generate joy. Besides...

GSK, TCS to Jointly Set Up Drug Development Center

...Services (TCS) have entered //into a multi-million dollar contract for setting up a global drug development center in Mumbai. Under the contract, TCS will provide a variety of services in clinical research, including clinical data management and clinical submissions support. "GSK has chosen to partn...

Doctors in Tamil Nadu Reluctant to Serve in Backward Pockets

...lready the state is implementing the multi million dollar World Bank-aided Health Systems Project, aimed at improving the infrastructure in all the district and sub district hospitals. They are being provided with new buildings and all necessary equipment. All the health institutions are also being linked ...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

...errors at American hospitals in both mortality and dollar terms continues to be significant, and the 'chasm in quality' between the nation's top and bottom hospitals, which HealthGrades has documented in this and other studies, remains." said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' chief medical officer and the...

Patent Problems in US – Over Stem Cell Researc

... the patents impeded that state’s three billion US dollar stem cell research programme. Actually Thomson’s isolation of stem cells nine years ago did set off a big effort to turn that basic technology into treatments for various diseases. But then the Wisconsin patents were too broad and their enforcement...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...sion." Olshansky was slapped with a 120 million dollar defamation lawsuit by the A4M after he accused the organization of promoting quackery. He countersued and both sides eventually agreed to drop their cases. Those who are hooked to the A4M regime take more than three dozen dietary supplements. Thei...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...(UNICEF), are available at a cost of less than one dollar for the duration of pregnancy. "Incorporating multivitamins into those supplements could be done without a large increase in cost and would be a highly cost-effective method of improving birth outcomes in developing countries," said Fawzi. Source-E...

Drug Uses Up Water in Yemeni Capital, People Must Relocate

...where almost half the people live on hardly one US dollar a day, khat income is eminently welcome. Also in a situation of grinding poverty khat-chewing is one of the few affordable sources of pleasure. And it is the residents of Sana who would be paying the price for it all. They would have to move out. ...

Woman Says Irritable Bowel Drove Her to Shoplifting

...eny and released from the Lee County jail on a 500 dollar bond. Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a problem that affects mainly the bowel which is also called the large intestine. The bowel is the part of the digestive system that makes and stores stool. The word syndrome means a group of symptoms. I...

Costlier Health Care Weigh Downs the Women

...oo among women and men. Women earned 77 cents to a dollar earned by men. The out of pocket expenses and low income make women spend more than 10% of the income on health care. Nearly 38% women found it difficult to pay the medical bills compared to men. A study conducted by the Harvard Medical Centre foun...

Highly Educated Women Woo Career and Boo Motherhood

...essionally qualified and had answered this million dollar question in 2005 , when they had turned 35 years. The research revealed that 40.1 % of the women graduates who were already 35 were still childless. They also showed a strong inclination to remain that way till they were 45, when it would be diffic...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

...'s really expensive and hard to find." With a 34 dollar fishing license, a 16 dollar abalone report card, and the requisite gear, anyone willing to brave the risks can go get abalone. ...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

... half of Kenya's population lives on less than one dollar a day with hundreds of thousands of them crammed into informal settlements with very few toilets. The importance of a latrine to keep Kibera clean cannot be understated. The smell of sewage wafts through the air and residents often relieve themselv...

Hospitals in Older Cities Close Down, Blacks Worst Affected

... payments to hospitals averaged 92 cents for every dollar spent providing care in 2005, the most recent figures available, according to the American Hospital Association. Medicaid's reimbursement rate was lower, at 87 cents per dollar. Officials at other area hospitals have complained that Riverview's clo...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

.... Some even say yoga has become a multi-million dollar industry with all kinds of gurus or instructors, both Indian and western, offering their own version of this practice to lure stressed-out urbanites seeking holistic cure to their diverse maladies. The US statement comes in the wake of reports las...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

...ies claim that there are plans for a multi-million dollar cleanup drive. But that requires mass shifting of some 60,000 people. The Dal Lake authority claims it has plans to spend around 74 million dollars to clean up the drain clearage system and install a sewage cleaning plant. There are plans to relo...

Hong Kong Imposes Heavy Fine on Smokers

...ay approved a proposal to impose a 1,500 Hong Kong dollar ($191) fixed fine for anyone who breaches tough ne...Kong dollars (640 US dollars). A 1,500 Hong Kong dollar spot fine would bring the penalty for smoking in public in line with the existing fixed penalty for ...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

...unteers worldwide. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money, and blood to do its work....

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...products are sold by food, drug, mass merchandise, dollar store and club store retailers under their own labels. The Company also develops, manufactures and markets prescription generic drugs, active pharmaceutical ingredients and consumer products, and operates manufacturing facilities in the United States...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

...million. "A cure for Presbyopia could be a billion dollar industry and the growth potential is enormous, if ...n (LASIK) would succeed. Now it is a multi-billion dollar industry. We are encouraged so far with the results of the animal studies as we move on to the human...

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