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Polypill for Heart Ailments Being Tested in India

...increasing number of elderly people. The DRL is hoping to open up yet another vista. Even those who have not suffered an attack or a stroke could take the polypill if they think that they are liable to fall victim to cardio-vascular diseases. Clinical trials to establish that aspect of the drug would ...

Number of Specialists Best at Treating Children's Fractures Decreasing

...res,” scheduled for Friday, March 30, 2007, HSS is hoping to offset the shortage of pediatric orthopedists by encouraging orthopedic residents to enter the field of pediatric orthopedic surgery and updating general orthopedists about the latest surgical methods available for pediatric fracture care. The hop...

Debate in US: Who Should Decide for Disabled People?

... arrange surgical interventions on their children, hoping life would become that much bearable// for them? Such questions are being a raised in a beated debate in the US. Ashley of Seattle was born with a debilitating disorder. Her brain stopped developing when she was only three months old. She is sen...

Patients Buy Untried Cancer Drug On Web

...tients have been buying an untried drug in the web hoping to find some remedy for their illness//. The drug called DCA, short form for dichlroacetate has been reported to decrease the size of tumors in rats. But it has not been tested in humans so far. Understandably, terminally sick patients do not want ...

Low-sugar Potato Cultivation Spreads in India

... process 10,000 tonnes a year. Its officials are hoping to triple the capacity by next year itself, such is the demand for potato chips and wafers internationally. India is the biggest potato producer after China and Russia and has 1.28 million hectares under potato. The country’s annual output runs to ...

Vitamin E- Take Its Benefits With A Pinch Of Salt

...ny people take Vitamin E during radiation therapy, hoping it will reduce potential side effects, and often, without informing their physicians. To test this notion, a clinical trial was conducted in Canada. Its results were published recently in The International Journal of Cancer. Five hundred forty ...

Developmental And Behavioral Problems Can Plague Children With Asthma

...or behavioral and academic problems. "What we're hoping to see are improved overall outcomes for this vulnerable population," he said. Source-Generef.com...

HeartLander - Futuristic Medical Technology Takes Off

...ests using a sheep's heart, with the researchers hoping the HeartLander would be available for surgical use, within the next three to four years. Says Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation:"Whilst this is interesting, it remains to be seen whether it can deliver use...

A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...tre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, is hoping to test this in the near future. Commenting on the work, he said: "There has never been a method to 'medically' switch on fat burning before. "The finding that PPAR-delta co-ordinates this process, not only by switching on fat burning, but also...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

...lo Leite of the Medical College of Georgia. “We’re hoping eventually this will end up in the development of real drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.” The research was presented at a poster session of the American Physiological Society (APS) annual meeting at Washington. A recent, nation...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

...cal options for tackling it. Climate experts are hoping it will clearly state the low costs of avoiding a climatic catastrophe in the coming decades by using technologies currently available to prevent the world temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius over pre-industrialised temperatures. ...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

... rising pressures to not look your age. But anyone hoping to maximize her income by investing in expensive and hazardous products and procedures should think again. Dyeing your hair or getting a facelift might help you find a job at midlife, but if your employer has decided to cut back on expensive employ...

Bangkok Lures Visitors With Its Growing Gourmet Scene

...kok". Optimistic hoteliers and restaurateurs are hoping that Bangkok will soon rival Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo as the culinary capital of Asia. "Bangkok has started knocking the world's culinary cities and telling them, look at us," says Deepak Ohri, managing director of Lebua Hotels, who thinks Bang...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...dy, said, With respect to the disease HIBM, we are hoping that humans with the same genetic mutation as in our mouse model will also respond to ManNAc. The availability of these transgenic mice will assist us greatly in assessing the appropriate dosage of the drug to test in HIBM patients. To date, none o...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...ion people. Officials also said the White House is hoping the announcement will encourage other G8 nations, as well as nations that have growing economies, to make pledges. "The goal of universal access isn't a United States goal, it's a global goal," Ambassador Mark Dybul, who serves as the U.S. global A...

Researchers Training Rats To Diagnose TB

... grant from the World Bank to build his lab and is hoping to bring in additional donations on his Web site, HeroRat.org, from people who want to adopt individual animals....

Researchers Find How the Brain Hears Shapes

...l, tactile or auditory, said Amedi. Amedi is now hoping that the vOICe device might one day help blind people "see". "It was a huge activation. I think they're seeing, New Scientist quoted Amedi as saying. The findings appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience....

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...l Research Council and the European Union, are now hoping to refine the model with a view to starting the first phase of clinical trials in humans....

GPS Could Help to Identify High Risk Zones

... Potential catastrophes are why researchers are hoping that GPS can help them map locked zones more effectively. GPS networks send altitude and location readings to satellites that can thus chart movements on the earth's surface with an accuracy of a few millimetres. This allows them to monitor 'slow-...

Gilead's AIDS Drug Awaits Patent in India

...pharma firms to distribute its HIV drug Viread, is hoping to get a patent in India soon. "We have made considerable progress in implementing our access programme and licensed Indian pharmas to manufacture Viread which originally announced a pricing of $1 a day for the pill," Gregg Alton, senior vice pres...

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