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New Pills To Keep You Awake!

...cally turn sleep off.’ Researchers in the US are hoping to build on the success of the drug Modafinil, a stimulant launched seven years ago that allows people to wake up refreshed after four hours of sleep. Unlike caffeine or amphetamines, it appears not to leave people with the jitters, euphoria and eve...

High Levels Of Cancer Chemical Found In Soft Drinks

...companies now add loads of vitamin C to the drink, hoping to attract more customers. The practice of using sodium benzoate-vitamin C combination has been in use since the early 1990s. Some of the products known to use sodium benzoate include the Britvic branded products such as Britvic 55 (apple and orang...

Life Or Death: Parents Await High Court Judgment

...ical treatment for his life threatening condition, hoping that it would ensure a improved quality of life. He might survive if tracheotomy can be performed successfully on the boy. It is a surgical procedure in which a hole is cut into the windpipe followed by insertion of a synthetic tube to enable breathi...

Cancer Patient Loses Embryo Appeal

...e the embryos after they split up. Ms Evans is now hoping to get some justice at the Grand Jury of the European Court. However Mr Johnston said that he would still refuse permission, "It seems that common sense has prevailed. The key thing for me was just to be able to decide when, and if, I would start a f...

Quebec arming itself to combat a potential influenza pandemic

...ays. The health minister has expressed a prayer, hoping such a situation of a pandemic does not ever arise, "What is obvious today, it should be obvious, is that everyone here is working together to prepare our society and the health-care network for the occurrence of this pandemic, which, again, we hope...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...y of content had led to some disillusion. Here is hoping for an encore of the commercial success of Sujoy Ghosh's "Jhankar Beats" or the sophistication of Aparna Sen's "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer", "36 Chowringhee Lane", and Nagesh Kukunoor's "Three Walls". Higher international acceptability is also one of the rea...

Ambien and the Other Insomnia Drugs

...f insomnia drugs hit the market. Sanofi-Aventis is hoping to withstand some of the threat. Ambien has the lion's share of the $2 billion prescription insomnia drug market. Sepracor's Lunesta, available since last April, accounts for about 10%. The drug raked in $329.2 million in its first few months. Ac...

Influenza Vaccination For The Elderly

... the lines of pharmaceutical companies. They are hoping to target individuals more than 65 yrs of age who are at a higher risk of death due to influenza virus. They want the government to introduce direct consumer advertising to promote the flu vaccination. Their studies show that if the Department of Hea...

Effects Of Certain Food Related To Single Pain Receptors

...s to hypersensitivity to heat and touch. They are hoping this would lead to a new break through for pain management, as pain therapy is one of the biggest challenge in modern medicine and finding and developing new pain medications is urgently needed to fill the therapeutic gaps and to treat additional for...

Ultrasound Helps Detecting Cancer In Pregnancy

... of the Anderson, of the centre said that they are hoping to educate young women that the symptomatic breast cancer that occurs during pregnancy can be imaged, diagnosed and treated while pregnant, and so they should not wait to seek medical attention if they start to have suspicious symptoms. Dr. Yang an...

Indian Doctors have their Days Numbered

...ected in addition to about 850 unemployed doctors, hoping to get training assignment. With this rule it would become almost impossible for Indian doctors to get a job with the NHS. Until April 7, doctors from all non-European Union countries were allowed to undertake NHS jobs under the permit-free working...

Heart Related Problems-The Largest Killers In Andhra Pradesh

...a Pradesh and India. He also claimed that they are hoping to start their office in Hyderabad within the next twelve months. Acknowledging the support of the Welcome trust Professor Alan Lopez of the University of Queensland, Australia, said that the participation of the WHO and World Bank at the meeting is...

Hospitals In U.K To Outsource Administrative Work To India

...xed 300 jobs and is moving its admin work to India hoping to save about ￡2.5 million a year. The management hope that with this move they would halve their annual ￡5 million medical secretary bill by sending voice recordings over the internet to be typed up in India. Chief executive David Loughton expressi...

Can Men Gauge Biological Paternity Accurately

...ternity to the results for men with low confidence hoping to determine how the perceptions of fatherhood correlate to the fact. He found that, men who were confident about their fatherhood undergoing the test were only wrong 1.7% of the time, meaning they were indeed the child's father more than 98% of the ...

Epidemic Of Cholera Continues To Sweep Over Angola

... cases expected to double, they said that they are hoping to try and contain the deaths. The seven provinces hit by the disease are Luanda, Bengo, Beguela, Kuanza North, Kuanza Sorth, Malange and Huambo. It has been reported that Tuesday witnessed the highest daily toll till date, with 929 new cases and 25...

Leprosy Cured People In India To Be Trained By Japanese Trust

...re consulting lawyers to set up the foundation and hoping that the work in India could start within the next six months. Expressing satisfaction over India achieving the "leprosy elimination" status, Sasakawa said the focus now should shift "from treatment to social rehabilitation." On Dec 31, 2005 Indi...

Patients Bear The Brunt Of Doctor’s Strik

...at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) hoping someone will look at my child," Yadav told IANS, sounding pathetic. "I am here today at the cost of a day's earning. What I want is doctor's attention." Afsana, 21, who came to AIIMS to get her tumour treated, also related her negative experience. ...

Inhaled Cyclosporine Results In Rejection Free Survival among Lung Transplant Patients

... and that the FDA requested further studies. ‘I am hoping that the lung transplant community can work together to organize a multi-center trial," he said. "If we find promising results from a new, bigger, trial, and the drug becomes readily available, it could make a big difference for lung transplant patie...

Southeast Asian Children With Leukaemia To Get New Treatment

...ne of the best in the world, at 90 percent. NUH is hoping to improve its 80 percent rate. Ching-Hon Pui, St. Jude's chairman of oncology, noted that leukaemia cure rates were between four percent and 55 percent in developing countries. "Through this unique partnership, we can help many other children wi...

Third Arm Removed Successfully

... has flexion abilities in both direction. ‘We're hoping to exchange information with doctors who've dealt with similar cases anywhere in the world,’ said Chen. ‘This is so rare that we have virtually no information to go on.’ Junjie's case was especially remarkable because both left arms were almost equ...

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