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Health Minister fires another salvo at MCI

... concern." The MCI is an autonomous body and the government has no say in its functioning. What irks the minister is lack of transparency in its functioning. He said a cleansing process of the councils was a major challenge and wanted support from all sections of society, including the media to accomplish ...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...I), IBM Health care and Affymetrix with assist the government in sequencing, genotyping and data analysis. The Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genomica (National Genomic Medicine Institute of Mexico) or INMGEN will manage the resulting ‘Mexican HapMap’. According to Gerardo Jimenez, director of INMEGEN and the...

PM announces a new health care order for India

... a rising risk of water born diseases. The Chennai government worked quickly and effectively with the people providing immediate medical care, food water and shelter. However, the more current misfortunes such as the Floods of Bombay, deaths of 50 people in West Bengal due to Dengue and Suspected Japanese Enc...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

...ons. According to a news posted on Sept 28, 2005, government scientists at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced results from initial clinical trials of a vaccine being developed to protect humans against infection with H5N1 avian influenza. NIAID and MedImmune have joi...

Yoga, ayurveda being documented to stop patent misuse

... unani and siddha. A task force appointed by the government for protecting traditional knowledge and intellectual property is fast completing the documentation of yoga postures and techniques as well as formulae in ayurveda, siddha and unani - all Indian traditional medicinal systems. The aim is to stop fore...

Problems in rural health delivery and remedies

...precisely to address these maladies that the Union government has launched the National Rural Health Mission (2005-2012), as a part of which, the local governments will have large public health institutions under their jurisdictions as the NRHM aims to operationalize 3222 existing CHCs (30-50 beds) as 24 hour F...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

...cells for transplant surgeons globally. The Indian government will // receive a 10% equity stake in this venture...two seats on the board of directors to ensure that government guidelines are followed, Said company president Mike Shen, who signed the agreement. To bank the cor...

Terminally Ill Patients Could Be Offered A Better Life

...life more bearable. But the experts say all state government should frame laws that allow organizations to play a more dynamic role in easing the pain of the terminally ill. Drawing attention to the needs of the terminally ill and also those who stand a better chance of cure if given treatment in time, Indian...

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...life more bearable. But the experts say all state government should frame laws that allow organisations to play a more dynamic role in easing the pain of the terminally ill. Drawing attention to the needs of the terminally ill and also those who stand a better chance of cure if given treatment in time, Indian...

Vical Biotech and NIH jointly develops HIV vaccine

...eveloped by the scientistis in NIH and the Federal government is using the Vical Biotechs DNA delivery technology to inserting the HIV genes//. Vical Inc. is a Biotechnology company based in California, which has developed an accurate DNA delivery system, last month Vical has agreed to grant Merck to use its ...

Simplest therapeutic regimen found less effective against HIV

...and with other drugs have become more complex. New government guidelines recommend against starting AIDS patients on a popular treatment combination, due to concerns that using two similar drugs can rapidly lead to treatment-resistant strains of HIV. Therapeutic regimen that combines Videx and Viread with so...

Non-Communicable Diseases Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate in India

...avanan also attended the function. As many as 60 government doctors, 30 specialists from the Apollo Hospital, ...l resident participation was very encouraging. A government organized health camp in Chennai conducted the previous year revealed that more than 30% of the peop...

Vitamin filled nutrition candy for School children

...n from poor families who get fed in schools by the government will get a nutritional candy that will help make u...n lost human potential and health care costs. The government has been providing a lemon favour candy with seven milligram of iron to nearly 5 million children in...

Microbicides could serve to materialise women empowerment in the years to come

... US research agency CONRAD, with which the central government has signed a MoU in 2004. Source: Indo-Asian News Servic...

Indian Government warns Gujarat regarding possibility of bird flu

The Gujarat government has been warned against suspected carriers of the ... flu in the Southeast Asia since 2003."The central government has alerted the state animal husbandry department to watch out for birds specially from Southeast As...

India preparing to counteract bird flu threat

...of anti-viral drugs. On precautionary measures the government has banned the import of poultry items. Dr. Anbumani said, “On the manufacture of generic drugs for treating the Avian flu a committee had been constituted to look into the issue and suggest whether the Government could cancel patents during emergenc...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

...rcsany said in an interview on national radio. The government has said that it can produce 500,000 doses of the vaccine per week and estimates that 3.5 million of the country's 10.6 million people need to be vaccinated to avert the predicted pandemic. The total cost of providing free vaccines is estimated to be...

Herbal remedies to be tested by Zambia for AIDS treatment

...the three drugs is a formulation mixed by a former government minister and constitutional lawyer, Ludwig Sondashi. “Herbal remedies have not been proven to help... The only thing proven is anti-retroviral treatments”, according to Genevieve Clark, of the British charity Terence Higgins Trust. More clinical tr...

Consumers Worried About Trans-Fats The Most

...ave been widely publicized in Canada. The Canadian government is considering banning trans-fat in all food produ...ll be required starting on January 1, 2006. The US government does not seem to have any intention to ban use of trans-fats in foods in the foreseeable future. So...

India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.

...p was attended by more than 60 delegates including government officials, researchers, pharmaceutical companies' representatives, NGOs and advocacy groups are attending the workshop. It is being held in the backdrop of debates on methods employed in high-risk clinical trials by pharma firms and the concern on ou...

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