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Allergan Introduces ‘Dermal Filler’ for Smile Lins

...mouth, by relaxing the muscles. California-based firm Allergan, which introduced this ‘dermal filler’ named Juvederm, said that it does the same for the lower face what Botox injections do for the upper portion. Robert Grant, president of Allergan Medical, said that the new product could be combined ...

Effects of Multiple Copies of Genes on Disease Risk

...ty School of Medicine in St. Louis and the biotech firm Nimblegen Systems Inc. have successfully tested a technique for identifying// newly recognized DNA variations that may influence disease risk. Rather than focus on errors and alterations in DNA sequence, the new technique highlights variations in ...

Ayurveda Firm's Name Change Irks Experts

...yurveda have questioned the name change of leading firm Kerala Ayurveda Pharmacy Ltd (KAPL) to Kerala// Ayurveda Ltd, saying it could mislead patients and tourists. The Kochi-based KAPL has been a leading name in Kerala's ayurveda sector and its fame rose when it merged with the Mauritius-based Katra H...

Cancer Research May Help Biofuels

... This week Capricorn Management, the investment firm of former eBay President Jeff Skoll, led a $22.3 million investment in the company. With the influx of cash, Targeted is going to test out how its technology works in a wider variety of crops in a diverse range of ecosystems. The company, which lic...

Thailand Backs Off Threat to Break Drug Patents

...esterday (7 February) held its first talks with US firm Abbott to discuss a price reduction for the AIDS d...ead of the department of disease control, said the firm had offered to drop the price from around US$260 per person per month, to US$170. But the offer fail...

Mid-day Naps Healthy for Your Heart

...and strains you are under. According to him, no firm conclusions can be drawn on the basis of this study alone, except that the issue is worth further investigation. "Right now, we would only reassure those who take a siesta that this may actually be not simply pleasant and relaxing, but also a healt...

More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

... is a greater risk of placenta accreta (abnormally firm attachment of the placenta to the uterine wall) and uterine rupture. During a normal, vaginal birth, maternal-behaviour and bonding hormones are released. A c-section interferes with this process. "Whenever mother and child are separated, as th...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

...yyagari. “Genetic testing may not always yield the firm facts we receive in other kinds of testing, such as blood tests for cholesterol levels.” A related point of confusion is that an inconclusive result does not necessarily rule out a diagnosis for a given disease. Limitations still exist in technolo...

Good News For The Bald

...he red region of the visible color spectrum. The firm has brought out this useful device after conducting twenty six weeks of trial. According to the company sources, this device is already in the market as an online commodity being sold for $ 545. The Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) has remained the ...

Good News For Chocolate Lovers

...enhance the functioning of brain. Mars a private firm involved in the manufacture of CocoaVia chocolates has a procedure which retains flavonols, an active constituent of cocoa drink in them. This has been used in a lot of trials. The current study indicates that flavonol aids in active blood flow to th...

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

A Japanese firm announced this week that it has developed a biodeg...s commonly experienced with existing drugs. The firm says that this new drug delivery technology platform could reopen potential therapeutic avenues usin...

Drug Companies Hit Out at Thai Generic Drug Scheme

...ported, including an HIV drug made by the giant US firm Merck Sharp and Dome. Thailand's Ministry of Pub...s Efavirenz, by 14 per cent. Mr Sellers says his firm provides the drug at cost price in developing countries and in middle income countries hardest hit b...

Role of Cholesterol in Alzheimer’s Disease Unclea

...earch is under way. Right now, it is too early for firm conclusions on the relationships among cholesterol, cognitive function, and statin therapy. Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

Physical Contact With Parents can Help Premature Babies

...maintaining normal body temperature. There is no firm way of predicting the extent to which a baby will be damaged by an early birth. Source-IANS...

Turkey Giant to Receive King-sized Compensation

...d Matthews, UK’s largest turkey farm and marketing firm owner, is in the news again. His company will be given 670,000 pounds in compensation// for the 160,000 turkeys that had to be culled last month, in the wake of a bird flu outbreak, caused by the deadly strain H5N1. The company, which has a 4800 s...

Technology Changes in Glucose Monitoring Implants

Applied Data, a healthcare therapeutics firm has concluded its study on the development of technology in the field of implantable glucose monitors.// According to them, there has been a massive spurt in new ideas and innovations in this field ever since 1991, when the FDA approved the first...

Biocon Unveils Renal Therapies for Kidney Disorders

India's premier biotechnology firm Biocon Ltd Thursday announced the launch of renal therapy products for treating kidney disorders and reducing// the risk of such disease. As the leading producer of immuno-suppressants in the subcontinent, the company has set up a nephrology divisi...

UK to Pull Pseudoephedrine

...ed its efficacy altogether. Only last month, US firm SCOLR dropped its phenylephrine development plans, claiming that the treatment "did not justify continued internal development." SCOLR vice president and chief technology officer, Stephen Turner, told In-PharmaTechnologist at the time that "phenyle...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...system, said Mitragotri. However, US drug delivery firm StrataGent Life Sciences has been involved with the research to date and is leading commercial development of the new technology. With around 12 billion needle injections every year for the delivery of vaccines and protein therapeutics such as insu...

Italian Olives Recalled from Canada

...is calling back tubs of olives produced by Italian firm Marcella's Garden.// There are fears by the food company as well as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that the olives might contain the bacterial species responsible for the type of food poisoning referred to as botulism. Botulism is said to...

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