Individuals with sleep related breathing disorders more prone to heart disease
... Among the various sleep disorders, sleep apnea in its mild or moderate form is commonly experienced. Sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. Most individuals may have less severe sleep related breathing problem that may go unrecognized. These sleep distu...Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.
...re decreased, indicating that the drug had reached its target. The test results indicated that the drug had “been successfully diffused in brain tissue,” Frey said. Asked about the implications of Frey's work, Dr. Philip Gorelick, director of the Center for Stroke Research, Chicago, Illinois, said the s...Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant
...amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of its kind in an infant but with the successful result obtained many more similar procedures will follow suit./p>...Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap
...t far behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people all over the world ganging up against rising prices of essential life saving medicines. However cri...South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation
...alth experts warn that unless the government pulls its socks up, the situation might soon go out of control. ...Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors
...vestor-owned hospital, has 150full-time doctors on its panel in Delhi, of which 138 are NRI's. So what's making home the best place to be? One big draw is the emergence oftruly world-class facilities with the increasing amount of private capitalflowing into the business. ``Doctors expect a certain level ...Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!
...ntries, dental care and hygiene has never received its due importance from the masses. So much so that patients visit dentists only with terminal problems or when the pain becomes unbearable.A small problem is easier to cure but because of the lackadaisical attitude of the patients, the problem is allowe...Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos
...usiness Line. Scientists of Chiron Corp including its Chairman had visited the facilities of Shanta Biot...hanta Biotechnics was in the process of finalising its plans for a private placement to raise funds both for establishing an US FDA-approved research-cum-m......ing the uses of “take home” naloxone and argue for its wider distributio....IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy
The Indian Medical Association has asked its members to refrain from conducting sex-determination tests and aiding female foeticide. No support would be extended to practitioners caught in the act, the IMA said on Sunday. "We as an organisation should warn our members against aiding in such he...India to benefit from pharma companies' move
...uld become the next country which has to fight for its right to care for its sick and dying people against the global pharmaceutical industry backed by the U.S. government," add...Chinese paracetamol may be slapped with dumping duty
... thereby forcing the domestic market to sell below its non-injurious price, which the domestic market could not recover. Hence the anti dumping duties, the Directorate added....TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa
...illions in Africa as it has found a new partner in its destructive mission. Full-blown cases of AIDS coupled with TB is killing on an average three million people a year in Africa alone. What is alarming is that the death rate has gone up by 10% in 2 years and there are no signs of the destruction slowin...HIV did not arise from polio vaccine
...lphia, Pennsylvania, from lingering questions over its proposed role in creating the HIV scourge. The re...ed that any chimp cells were used in manufacturing its OPV. But the fact that mainstream researchers believe HIV arose from the related Simian Immunodefic...Avoid sudden death by quick cooling
...The longer the time taken for the heart to restart its normal beating, the lesser the chances are for the patient to survive. In laboratory studies, Becker has demonstrated that the actual act of restarting the heart can cause significant damage. Therefore, he proposes giving the heart a rest by cooling...Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers
... the feasibility of supplying cheap AIDS drugs for its people. Though AIDS activists have welcomed the move they say other companies must take the cue from cipla and follow suit....Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis
...n Bangalore.Reliance Industries has been providing its manufacturing facility for making polyethylene, Mr. T.T. Raghunathan, vice chairman said. Courtesy: The Hindu, 14/05/2001...ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids
...t and watch the long-term effects. If it continues its good work, ATG will reduce the steroid related side effects and costs for patients, on life long immunosuppressive therapy to guard against transplant rejection, in a big way....No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report
... prenatal visits the study says. The report finds its place in the May 19th issue of The Lancet. The fewer visits appear to be safe and could save money in countries strapped for healthcare resources, according to Dr. Jose Villar of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues. The researchers studied...... the government has been steadily withdrawing even its minimal commitments to the poor." International d...Government could not have managed this hospital on its own. The bank is allowed to finance innovative thinkgs like this".But some international health rese...