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Intro of Pneumococcal Vaccines: Experts Urge Commitment From Industry

...mococcal disease, which will expand its usefulness globally for both children and adults.’ Source: TI news...

HIV Positive People Seek Implementation of UNGASS

...V. ‘Not one of these goals are being implemented globally and we would like to record our protest and offer charter of demands to the Union and state Ministries of Health, during the week-long protests to be held from May 20-26,’ she said. ‘The UNGASS is holding its review meeting from May 31 and Indian d...

Trees to Predict Climate Change

...my of Sciences has opined that rising temperatures globally is not only a result of the greenhouse effect but in fact was a part of the cyclical order of nature. 'Through the study of ancient trees, I discovered the temperature throughout history has risen and fallen in a rough but regular way, in a cyc...

WHO And China Set Up Collaborative Center For Fighting Bird Flu

...province and was responsible for nearly 800 deaths globally before being controlled in 2003. Till ate bird flu has claimed 127 lives....

KPMG Optimistic About Indian Pharma’s Growt

...f the $65 billion new business expected to open up globally next year, a new KPMG study reveals//. "The Indian pharma industry is currently worth $6 billion - in a global industry worth $650 billion - and is growing at 10 percent, compared to the global industry rate of seven percent," said John Morris, glob...

The Deadly Pair of Genes Increases the Risk of Breast Cancer among Europeans

...ound that breast cancer affected 1.2 million women globally and resulted in the death of 400,000 //every year. According to the research conducted by the team, at Iceland's Decode Genetics it was found that the deadly combination of BRCA2 and BARD1 variant increased the risk of breast cancer from 45% to 100% ...

GE Healthcare to Conduct Clinical Trials in India

... IDC will be combined with data from other centres globally and contribute towards the development of new contrast and molecular imaging agents or new indications for existing agents. The GE equipment for the clinical studies includes LightSpeed VCT, Discovery STe 16-slice PET/CT scanner, Dual Head Gamma wi...

AIDS: Why the pandemic outpaces us

...pidemic revealed that the epidemic is slowing down globally and there is a five-time increase in international funding to $8.3 billion in 2005. But the harsh reality, according to the report, is that a condom was used on average in only nine per cent of "risky" sex in the past year. Less than 10 percent of pr...

New Approach Assesses Risk of Water-Borne Pathogen Disease

...risk assessment of environmental surface waters is globally applicable, and can connect the presence of water-borne pathogens to the risk of mild versus severe human disease, according to the researchers. Scientists will be able to determine if a sample of water contains Leptospira, as well as quantify how ma...

Damage Due to MS Might Extend Into Larger Portions Of The Normal Brain

...he normal-appearing brain tissue affects the brain globally and has substantial clinical impact.' MS is a chronic, autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of myelin, the protective layers that surround nerve cells. It can affect numerous body functions, and symptoms may include visual and speech...

Rise in Use of Female Condoms in South Africa

...Africa has among the highest incidence of HIV/Aids globally and the use of female condoms forms a focal point of government's national program of ABC abstinence, be faithful, condomise message, with distribution increasing from 1.3 million in 2001/02 to 2.6 million in 2004/05. For 2005/06 the target was to di...

Limb Transplantation with a Difference

... the tissues in a transplanted hindlimb but not to globally suppress the immune system. The mice received an antibody that blocked the action of certain molecules important for the immune system's T cells to attack foreign tissue. According to Tung, this strategy, called costimulation blockade, blocks the im...

South Africa To Make Available Two New Drugs To Fight The TB Outbreak

...been stated that though drugs are widely available globally for years, it is not so in South Africa and that these two drugs would increase the pool of treatment combination available here. It was also mentioned that in South Africa the only drug test that is available to study as to whether the drugs were wo...

World's 3 out of 10 Cigarettes Smoked in China

...scale. Three out of every 10 cigarettes produced globally are smoked in China. Cigarette production in China increased seven-fold between 1960 and 2003, from 225 billion a year to 1.8 trillion - and 97 out of every 100 of those cigarettes are smoked within China. More than 300 million men in China are s...

Computer Tool Predicts Effectiveness Of Microbicides

... that microbicides are needed since the infections globally are soaring. By applying fundamentals of physics and chemistry, the researchers developed a computer model that can predict the effectiveness of various microbicidal recipes in destroying human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) before it reaches vulnera...

Declining Incidence of stroke in Australia

...delaide. Stroke affects around 17 million people globally and is widely recognised as one of the biggest killers in Australia. Nationally, over 53,000 strokes occur each year, of which one third will die in the first 12 months. Without prevention, the annual rate of strokes in Australia has been predicted t...

Fat or old - Swig red wine to live long says study

...rie diet often linked to obesity which is rampant globally .This suggestion was made by researchers who conducted tests on ageing mice which were put on a diet high on calories mainly contributed by fat. As a consequence of this diet the mice soon developed enlarged liver and signs of diabetes. Another group...

WHO takes initiative to fight corruption tainted medicine production-supply chain

...ment of medicines to the public by the governments globally gets misused or lost because of fraudulent practices, bribery and diversion of pharmaceuticals. In a rough estimate it has been assessed that governments spent about US$50 billion (€39 billion) on medicines every year.Now WHO wants to ensure that all...

Multiple deaths forces cancer trial to be called off

...g way with enrollment made at 170 medical centers globally last April, and had planned to study about 600 patients to prove the efficacy of Xyotax in increasing the life span of patients with lung cancer using a regularly used chemotherapy agent coupled with a polymer which is supposed to help in making the...

Fatty Fish beneficial in reducing risk of prostate cancer

...illion fresh cases of prostate cancer are detected globally each year, becoming the cause of more than 200,000 deaths. The researchers opine, “There is an interaction between dietary factors and our genes, but it’s always hard to say what role the genes play.Omega-3 fatty acids can still be good for men who...

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