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Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

...the right foot of the child simply began to detach itself from the ankle. "I was horrified. I cried and pleaded with the doctors to save my only son," said Pushpa. Jai's leg was then amputated below the ankle, leaving him crippled for the rest of his life. "It happens. It is a common thing in orthopa...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

... its early beginnings, the Company has established itself as a dynamic pharmaceutical house with the object of serving South Africa and the neighboring countries with the best service and products possible. Be-Tabs will remain an independent trading entity and will form one of the three companies within t...

Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

...mes at a time when the company is planning to self itself to UKs AstraZeneca for 15.6 billion dollars. AstraZeneca was behind MedImmune because it did not have its own flu vaccine business. Once the deal closes, MedImmune becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca. The vaccine FluMist has had more ...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

... million girls die every year, whether in the womb itself or as infants. According to a searing report on the prejudices against women, "Because I am a Girl", feticide is on the increase in many developing countries, where a male child remains more valued. The report, brought out by Plan International...

Decoding Protein Structures Helps Illuminate Cause of Diabetes

...ime, however, he says the automation of the device itself is a tremendous achievement. 'In time, automated 2-D IR spectroscopy will become a common analytical technique, widely available in university and industrial research laboratories around the world.'...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...rchers to view how the brain grows and reorganizes itself throughout childhood, and to explore the meaning of the structural changes they see. "This study will provide a comprehensive database for clinicians and scientists alike," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "A neurologist who notices someth...

BMA Urges Against Merging Fertility and Transplantation Regulatory Bodies

...nclude the provision for this research in the Bill itself and not make it merely subject to a regulation making power. This draft bill raises a number of complex and sensitive issues. The BMA will look through the proposals in detail and respond fully....

Southern Oceans Ability to Absorb CO2 Has Reached a Saturation Point: Study

...me that we've been able to say that climate change itself is responsible for the saturation of the Southern Ocean sink. This is serious. All climate models predict that this kind of 'feedback' will continue and intensify during this century. The Earth's carbon sinks of which the Southern Ocean accounts for...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...cellsa surface protein called gp120, which inserts itself into CD4 receptor molecules on the helper cells. Early tests of a gp120 vaccine looked promising, but optimism faded by the early 1990s as researchers learned the vaccine only worked against strains of HIV that had adapted to conditions in the lab...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...ganized by Jal Biradari, a movement that describes itself as an Indian "national water brotherhood". The Yamuna runs for around 1,370 km. Its source is in the Himalayan mountains at Yamnotri. It flows through the states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and merges with the Ganges at Allahabad. The citi...

New Pill to Suppress Menstrual Bleeding Indefinitely

... Journal two weeks ago that "menstrual suppression itself is unnatural," and that there's not enough data to... risk of pregnancy. Breakthrough bleeding may also itself be a symptom of pregnancy (contraceptive failure). In testing of Lybrel, 59% of women ended up wit...

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

... the viability of the vaccine, the delivery system itself appears sound, and the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer staff has applied for a provisional patent. The thin film vaccine system was among the undergraduate projects introduced to the public this month at the universitys annual Biomedical Engineerin...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...ance to get the virus under control, if it commits itself to a full-scale comprehensive national control cam...ealed. On August 11 last year India had declared itself to be bird flu-free and continues to be so, asserted Ms. Chawdhry. India continues with the ban on l...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...erican College of Cardiology. Avandia is sold by itself and, as Avandamet and Avandaryl, in pills that com...udiates the study, but a previous study by the GSK itself had showed about a 30% increase in heart risk to patients taking Avandia. The company points out t...

Study Refutes Theory on HIV's Effect on White Blood Cells

...of the process may be that the virus slowly adapts itself over the course of the infection. They, however, stress the need for further analysis is to verify the alternative theory. "If the specific process by which HIV depletes this kind of white blood cells can be identified, it could pave the way for ...

Cancer Children in US Get Wrong Dosage of Chemotherapy New Study

Chemotherapy itself is a dreadful regimen, with all kinds of side effects. What happens when wrong dosage is administered, to children at that? That is what seems to be happening in the US. A new study reveals that such errors resulting further treatment. The problem...

US Consumers Warned Against Toxic Chinese Fish

...from Hong Chang Corp or check with the corporation itself directly. People who eat food containing tetrodotoxin start to get symptoms between 30 minutes and several hours later. At first they get tingling sensations in the lips and tongue, then tingling in the whole face and the extremities, followed by ...

Fat Screen Delivers Plant-derived Chemical With Antidiabetic Effects

...ugs, according to the researchers. While harmine itself has effects on the central nervous system that may preclude its use, "it may eventually be possible to separate the nervous system and metabolic effects of harmine through optimization of the chemical structure," said Peter Tontonoz, a Howard Hughes ...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...n appointment at the Veteran Affairs department is itself turning out to be an ordeal. For others, the stigma of a mental health disorder keeps them from seeking help. Army Capt. Michael Pelkey, who suffered from night sweats, anxiety, headaches and exhaustion when he returned, sought help at Fort Sill, O...

Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch

...h medications. Other research points to depression itself as a source of endocrine changes that can damage bone. Whether the danger comes from depression, the drugs used to treat it, or something else, doctors are paying more attention to this association. During the 1990s, depression began to emerge as a...

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