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Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

... Pharmaceuticals Limited would soon be directed to ensure adequate production and supply of anti-rabies vaccine in the market. Government hospitals in India purchase drugs worth Rs. 30 billion every year and their orders will certainly help the companies very well, said Satwant Reddy, secretary in the min...

Thymus Transplants Give Hope to Babies With Fatal Immune Disease

...or several weeks in a laboratory while researchers ensure that there are no diseases present in the tissue. Strips of tissue are then implanted in the baby's thigh, where they attract a blood supply and begin to act like a thymus gland. Within three to four months, mature T cells begin to appear in the bloo...

The Plight of Jharkhand's Mysterious deaf Village

... same problem. "It is indeed a difficult task to ensure that each student hears me properly. I have to speak loudly in the classroom," said a teacher. Doctors are somewhat baffled. Manish Kumar, an ENT specialist, said: "The disease might have resulted from some food habit or absence of the hearing v...

Teenage Self Confidence Can Translate Later into Material Wealth

...t early advantages by themselves are not enough to ensure the best shot at material well-being later in life. In light of popular beliefs that kids from middle- and upper-class families have it made, it is surprising to see what little positive impact socioeconomic status has in the absence of self-esteem...

A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List

...tted to act as the low cost global manufacturer to ensure access of Paromomycin to all those that need it. WHO first published the first Model List of Essential Drugs in 1977, identifying 208 individual medicines that together could provide safe, effective treatment for the majority of communicable and no...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...as gender, race, income and employment status, and ensure that these factors were not playing a role in the results. Even after taking these variables into account, the association between obesity and asthma severity still held," he added. Like many previous studies, this research also shows the link betw...

WHO Announces Deal on Sharing Bird Flu Virus

...tion (WHO), has promised efforts would be made to ensure "fair and equitable distribution of pandemic influ...est circulating strains to that in the vaccine, to ensure that the vaccines would work. But Indonesia, China have shown reluctance in sharing the strain sam...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...ll remain a U.N. priority and that he will work to ensure funding for prevention and treatment services. Ban also said providing treatment for diseases associated with HIV, such as tuberculosis, and researching vaccines and microbicides are necessary to reduce the spread of the virus. Ban added that meeti...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

... Koch says. "The use of the novel gene promoter to ensure the therapeutic gene is only expressed in heart cells increases the safety of the gene therapy for human use." Congestive heart failure affects nearly five million Americans, many of whom have poor long-term prognoses, despite recent therapeutic ad...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

... of asthma and residence in a metropolitan area to ensure these variables were not playing a role in the results. To further understand how obesity may impact the severity of asthma, researchers looked at the association of body mass index (BMI) to quantify a patients body size with the following measures...

Pediatric Seizure Study Underway in US to Decide Between Diazepam and Lorazepam

... these two medications to the highest standard and ensure that children are receiving the most appropriate m...mittee at each hospital will oversee the study and ensure that all procedures comply with ethics and safety standards. Other independent reviewers will look f...

New Reforms Could Cut the Number of Unexplained Infant Deaths

...n. Professor Fleming believes the protocol will ensure more robust and reliable investigations and it could lead to a substantial reduction in the number of deaths from sudden infant death syndrome. When he and his colleagues introduced structured arrangements in Avon in 1984 the benefits soon became app...

Using Drugs as Weapons can Never Be 'non Lethal', Say Doctors

...le to control the amount of a drug delivered or to ensure it acts without producing toxic effects or causing death. It is disingenuous of governments to describe drugs as non-lethal there is no difference between a drug and a poison except the dose. Using drugs as a method of law enforcement may constitu...

Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...ose goal is to determine how universities can help ensure that biomedical products, including medicines, are made more accessible in poor countries and further the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases affecting the poor. "For years, it was thought that heart disease was a concern of affluent...

Researchers Make Insulin from Human Umbilical Cord Bloods Adult Stem Cells

...chers tested adult stem cells in the laboratory to ensure that they were predisposed to divide. Then they used a previously successful method in which complex signals produced by the embryonic mouse pancreas were used to direct adult stem cells to begin developing, or differentiating into islet-like cells. ...

Naresh Trehan Reinstated as Chief of Escorts After Weeklong Row

... management has further said that it would like to ensure a "healthy and smooth work environment where the doctors, nurses and premedical staff will enjoy a good work environment and patient would continue to receive best care". Managing director S.M. Singh, who had taken the decision to sack doctors, was...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

...deliver healthcare in local areas, must do more to ensure that people coming to live in Britain from high-risk countries were screened when they arrived at an airport or port or when they registered with a general practitioner. Students coming to Britain should also be tested. Cases of TB in Britain rose ...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

... instructed researchers to design their studies to ensure adequate enrollment of all populations, including women and racial minorities. "The NIH, and we as a society, have decided that the burden and benefits of health research should be shared by everyone," said Humphreys, who is also on the staff of t...

Most Pediatric Chemotherapy Mistakes Reach Patients

...re often based on a childs weight, are critical to ensure that the drug concentration in the blood is within its narrow safety margins. Medication errors are common during pediatric hospitalizations, occurring in almost 6 percent of all medication orders for pediatric inpatients. One of the only comprehen...

Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

...ducts - particularly those that include fruit - to ensure that they remain unspoiled throughout their shelf life, whether people are able to store them in a fridge or not. "All our ingredients have been approved as safe by the food regulatory authorities in Britain and the EU and that is where we take our...

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