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Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

...ce of the chemical industry, he said it could even exceed the target of 28 per cent for the current fiscal. He said 14 per cent of the total export earnings of the country is from drugs and pharmaceuticals which amounts to $3.5 billion. The council Chairman, Mr. Kishore Chokhani, in his welcome address sa...

Mammograms better than self-exam

...t new, non-mammography screening technologies must exceed the detection ability of mammography before being used as screening tools....

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...obal burden of illness in 2001 and are expected to exceed 65% in 2020. "Better adherence will not threaten health care budgets. On the contrary, adherence to those medicines already prescribed will result in a significant decrease in the overall health budget," said Dr Eduardo Sabaté, Medical Officer, WHO...

Dangers Of Cigarette Smoke

...ording to the new study, levels indoors // can far exceed those outdoors because new engine models and lead-free fuels have cut the levels of particulate matter emissions from car exhausts. In a study which was conducted in a garage in a small, Italian mountain town where there are very low levels of parti...

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

...number of people suffering from diarrhoea does not exceed the typical level of the illness usually found in the region, experts say. Medical teams on the lookout for cholera have instead seen respiratory diseases on the rise. "The biggest killer is pneumonia," says Hakan Sandbladh, health officer for emerg...

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers

...doses to 100 Sv (sieverts) over five years (not to exceed 50 Sv in any one year) and doses to the public to 1 Sv per year. This study results show that an exposure of 100 Sv will cause 9.7% mortality from cancer (excluding leukaemia), and a 5.9% increased mortality from cancers excluding leukaemia, lung, an...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

...tates (mirroring those for Hungarian men) and also exceed the rates for men in more than half the states in the EU. The authors of the study suggest that product modification may have contributed to the declining prevalence in young men. In Poland, for example, tar yields fell by more than half between 198...

Decreasing Multiple Births By Single Embryo Transfers

...n equivalent result, the difference is unlikely to exceed 11.6 percent. Thus in conclusion researchers suggest that in women under 36 years of age, transferring one fresh embryo and then, if needed, one frozen-and-thawed embryo dramatically reduces the rate of multiple births ....

Researchers Present Data Regarding The Efficiency Of Herbs

...regnancy, and that the use of Vitamin A should not exceed 6,000 IU per day as it may be teratogenic at higher doses. This is the first time that herbs used during pregnancy have been independently ranked according to the available evidence surrounding the safety and efficacy of these products. The research...

Scientists Consider About New Technology Called Nanotechnology

...ken to ensure that the cost of production does not exceed the cost of raw materials and other resources. This is just the beginnng....

Changing Trends Regarding Insurance Cover For Weight Reduction Surgery

...emand among those with private insurance would not exceed about 375,000 procedures per year among full time employees.These estimates allow insurers and employers to make more informed decisions about the financial impact of offering coverage for bariatric surgery. More research is however indicated to addr...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

...o 60, the researchers found. All of these figures exceed the World Health Organisation's 1995 hospital nois...gest that sound levels in patient rooms should not exceed 35 decibels, they say in the study. The measurements vary little among different types of hospitals...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

...toxin levels in wild salmon weren't high enough to exceed the health benefits, the same was not true for far...ds obtained from the standard diet. 'The benefits exceed the risks for wild Pacific salmon, but the risks exceed the benefits for farmed Atlantic salmon as a...

A sharp increased in senior citizens: set to outpace children.

...an also states that: 1) Canada's population could exceed 40 million by the late 2030s under the medium-growth scenario. 2) The proportion of the working-age population will decline steadily through to the 2020s. By the beginning of the 2030s, it would decline to 62 per cent from its current 70 per cent ...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

... $25,000 and $45,000, and maximum charges will not exceed $60,000 dollars for 3 to 6 weeks. ...

Painkillers Lead To Liver Failure

... recommended that the dosage for adults should not exceed 4000 mg/day. But despite all the precautionary measures people end up with acetaminophen poisoning. Around 56000 people every year have accidental acetaminophen poisoning. But the doctors don’t agree with the terrible liver damage that the overdose...

NHS To Achieve Waiting Figure Target By 2008

... earlier that the maximum waiting period would not exceed six months, if they were to be admitted to a hospi...ral and initiation of medical treatment should not exceed a maximum of 18 weeks. In order to prevent overspending of the budget, some of the hospitals are a l...

Cancer-causing Property Of Teflon Leaves US Regulators Concerned

... the conclusion that the current evidence fails to exceed the descriptor 'suggestive,' of carcinogenicity," the panel had said in its report. The EPA's Science Advisory Board, which had asked for a review said that the finding was on expected lines. However, DuPont, which is the only manufacturer of Teflon ...

Drug Makers Banned From Providing Gifts To Doctors

...e maximum permissible valve of the gift should not exceed $100 and should be relevant to the clinical practice of the physician. A recent study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has examined the effect of such an association between the pharmaceutical companies and physi...

Air Pollution and Cancer

...an population to levels of various pollutants that exceed acceptable thresholds, and re-emphasizes that there really needs to be careful public discussion and debate on this issue," said Dr. Stephen Jay, chairman of the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of public health. He added that the r...

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