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Dutch Pharma Firm to Invest $500 mn in India

...nt size of the plant was 2,000 tonnes and would be expanded soon by another 3,000 tonnes. "We plan to achieve a market share of 10 percent in the antibiotic market this fiscal." A company official said Purimox produces amoxicillin using an enzymatic route and does not use solvents, which leads to a product ...

Now, Even Older Adults and Some Cancer Patients can go for Heart Transplantation

...the April 2005 annual meeting of the ISHLT. The expanded criteria follow changes in 2002 guidelines for organ donation, which permitted transplantation of hearts from those over 50, even when the hearts were enlarged or the arteries feeding it were clogged, provided the clot was removed. And they are likel...

Most people applying for coverage end up not buying it

...es like Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont that have expanded coverage through shared financial contributions from individuals, employers, and government." Other key findings from the report include: Individual health coverage is more expensive · Two of five (43%) adults with individual coverage spent 5 perce...

Stem cell trial to beat Batten Disease

...isolated from normal fetal brain tissue, purified, expanded and then stored in frozen cell banks until they are transplanted," the researchers said. "We will begin with one patient, but we are not going to continue on with other patients until all of the safety protocols evaluated in the first patient have ...

Heavy Industry Could Trigger Lung Cancer Risk

...particular area of England, where heavy industries expanded rapidly throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and where poverty and deprivation are common, according to the research published ahead of print in Thorax. The researchers interviewed study participants at length about their lives, including full hi...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

... of the modest number of interviews conducted.” An expanded study “with a more representative sample of clinicians and patients would be likely to deepen our understanding” of the themes identified in the study, and to identify other important factors. “The public health importance of improving care for dep...

Robots Help Bring Specialist Doctors To You In A Trice

...nvestigate how this ground-breaking service can be expanded to other regional hospitals throughout Queensland and to evaluate its capacity to deliver high quality clinical care to patients, as well as professional support and educational opportunities to health staff in regional areas, such as Mt Isa," Dr Smi...

Gene Involved In Common Birth Defect Also Regulates Skin Biology

...ssible,' Murray said. 'Dr. Schutte's work has also expanded our knowledge of other critical areas of human health such as the role of our skin in development and in how wounds and scars may heal.' 'Our results open many new avenues of research because the function we discovered for IRF6 is vastly different ...

Team Tracks Genetic Origins of Eye Cancer

...d how many copies there are. CGH is essentially an expanded version of FISH, with entire tumor cell lines, or genomes, labeled in different fluorescent colors, that provides a genome-wide comparison of amplified and deleted regions in DNA. SKY allows the researcher to track the physical rearrangement of chrom...

Agra Hospitals Modernise to Promote Medical Tourism

...t soon enough. "Medical facilities in Agra have expanded immensely. Earlier we referred our patients to hospitals in Delhi, now with the latest gadgetry and facilities available locally, patients take advantage and save both money and time." Apollo Hospitals has also entered into partnership with Pankaj ...

'Ire' of Irish Moms pained over maternity services in Ireland.

...e country’s 22 maternity hospitals have not really expanded over the last decade to accommodate the baby boom the nation has been experiencing since a couple of years now. Yet another report is expected to be published in a fortnight by the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which also aims at stud...

Breast reconstruction may be possible with fat stem cells

...to 200 million stem cells, which in culture can be expanded by 10 times over the course of two weeks. If and when fat-derived stem cells are tried in patients for breast reconstruction, Dr. Rubin predicts surgeons will obtain the cells from the patients' own stores of abdominal fat. According to the American...

Innovative Movies Show Real-Time Immune-Cell Activity within Tumors

...ecognize the patient’s cancer cells, activated and expanded greatly in numbers in the laboratory, and then returned to the patient. The hope in these trials is that these enhanced T cell populations will specifically target and destroy the patient’s cancer. To date, despite a few remarkable successes, thes...

Homosexuality, drug abuse increasing HIV in India: study

..."Harm reduction programmes need to be extended and expanded as a matter of urgency in those parts of India with serious drug injecting-related HIV epidemics. Failing that, there is a possibility that the combination of injecting drug use and paid sex could lead to larger HIV epidemics," the global report warn...

Integrated Child Development Scheme

...unity Development Blocks. The Scheme was gradually expanded and today it covers 6118// blocks in the country including 4790 in rural areas, 805 in tribal areas and 523 in urban slums. This was stated by the Minister of State for Women and Child Development Smt. Renuka Chowdhury in a reply to a question by Shr...

Sea Urchin Genome Similar To Man And May Cure Diseases

...chins only have innate immunity, and it is greatly expanded with 10 to 20 times as many genes as in human. 'Considering that sea urchins have a long life span - some can live up to 100 years - their immune system must be powerful,' Calestani said. 'Sea urchins could very well provide a new set of antibiotic...

GGC - A New Ingredient To Fight Ageing

...eutical company, Biospecialties Australia. A newly expanded manufacturing plant at Mayfield, near Newcastle, will produce GGC. It is expected that GGC will be used as an active ingredient in foods, health care, toothpastes, dietary supplements and cosmetics as well as in skin repair anti-aging creams. Nat...

Ranbaxy Laboratories to Be Aided in Drug Research

...ustrial research bodies. In 2004, the department expanded the support programme to extend loans at a simple interest of three percent to research and development projects in the pharmaceutical industry. Source-IANS...

Unbelted Backseat Passengers Produce Deadly Results

...t corporation, is headquartered in Buffalo and has expanded its facilities and operations to UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. CUBRC partners with private companies and academic institutions, to apply innovative research, rigorous testing and robust engineering to d...

Private Health Care: A Bigger Boom

...ill begin in April. The private cover will also be expanded to include a wide range of medical services including Chemotherapy and Dialysis delivered at home. Health Minister Tony Abbott is putting pressure on healthcare funds, which generated nearly $1 billion in profits this year, to keep premiums down in...

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