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Mexi-Plan by Health Net, Expected To Be a Boon for Uninsured Latinos

...eles. We are confident that this program will be a landmark in this market and will attract many, many customers, said Mexican Counsul General Ruben Beltran. We hope that many other private companies will follow suit and will cater to the needs of this underserved segment of the population. ...

High Court: Disabled Baby Should Live

...ording to a ruling by the High Court. // This is a landmark judgement, especially, since doctors treating the boy have favored the withdrawal of life support, to allow him to die, rather than prolong a life that is so intolerably enmeshed in pain. The Judge’s ruling disallowed the NHS trust to sweep aside t...

Kolkata: Landmark Health City on the Cards

...alth city is very much on the cards that will be a landmark on the EM Bypass. This is slated to be a Rs 1000 crore project which will come up// in two phases that will facilitate state of the art healthcare for kidney, heart and cancer patients. Bangalore and Ahmedabad will follow suit with the ‘Health City’...

Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

...ar inherited diseases. Stating that the work was a landmark study he said that though the results are very positive there still has to be a lot of work to make this technology available to all patients.Chronic granulomatous disorder (CGD) is a rare immunodeficiency disease caused by a defective gene on the ma...

Virus Causing Kaposi's Sarcoma Discovered

...of cell entry of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus is a landmark achievement in and of itself," says NIAID director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "But the connection between the virus and expression of its own receptor on a cell is even more provocative because it might change the way we think about KSHV-associated disea...

Women Win Legal Battle Over Treatment Of Breast Cancer

...n Marie Rogers, a breast cancer patient, has won a landmark ruling that her local hospital acted unlawfully in refusing to supply her with a potentially life-saving treatment. Jeremy Hughes, the chief executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, welcoming the judgment, said that, it could be hoped that this woul...

Diagnostic Centre Inaugurated for Air Pollution at SRMC

...ase Diagnostic Centre (APRDC).// The centre is a landmark as it is to combine surveillance and data gathering with diagnosis and treatment and part of `corporate social responsibility' initiative in order to tackle the increasing levels of air pollution. It is the 17th such centre being supported by Gas A...

Melatonin Can Help Nighttime Workers Sleep

...sh University Medical Center in Chicago stated, “A landmark feature of this comprehensive research was the study of 24 successive sleep episodes in the same participants, including over 1,000 sleep recordings, across a full range if circadian phases – the body’s internal 24-hour timing system. We were able to...

Women With Breast Cancer Can Now USE IVF To Spare Their Daughters

...free from genes that can cause the disease. This landmark ruling from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) would permit thousands of women who carry the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes to spare their daughters a genetic inheritance that confers an 80 per cent lifetime risk of developing breast canc...

Knee Injuries to be Treated Online

...to visit a doctor nor even go to hospital. // A landmark in today’s world hooked onto the Internet, the Physiotherapy Advice website offers immediate expert advice on knee injuries to anyone, at any place in the world, giving them a chance to safely manage their symptoms before meeting a doctor. Accordi...

Justice To Former Male Nurse In sex Discrimination Case

A former student male nurse yesterday won a landmark sex -discrimination case against NHS hospitals that did not permit him to perform intimate medical //procedures on women patients, if a female chaperone was absent. The Equal Opportunities Commission said the court ruling challenged assumptio...

UK Decision To Cancel PLAB Test To Benefit Jobless NRI Doctors

...of General Medical Council, said 'the government's landmark decision will help alleviate the misery of over 1,000 NRI doctors as it may open the door for them'. 'PLAB test does not guarantee a job. But ever since the British government decided to abolish permit-free training for international medical graduat...

The first vaccine for cancer ever to grace the face of this Earth!

...ht to the world the first cancer vaccine. // The landmark day for the lab was when on June 8, the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine, called Gardasil. This vaccine for cervical cancer blocks four strains of HPV. In the doctor’s own words, "It's a researcher's dream … to see something that s...

Animal Study Found Cure For Huntington Disease

... a decade later, this hypothesis has resulted in a landmark discovery. ‘This is a monumental effort that provides the most compelling evidence of this hypothesis to date’, said Dr. Marian DiFiglia, Professor in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and one of the world's leading ex...

Indian Scientists Develop New Drug to Control and Cure Depression

In what is seen as a landmark achievement, scientists at the Central Drug Resear...them lifelong," he said. The new drug is a major landmark achievement and is expected to go a long way in helping people overcome symptoms of depression, he a...

AIDS: Why the pandemic outpaces us

...onal decision-making." True. The 2001 UNGASS was a landmark in global efforts to the AIDS crisis because for the first time in the history of the pandemic, the Declaration, signed by leaders from 189 countries, had set out a series of time-bound targets to halt and reverse the disease. The 2006 Report on Gl...

Health Minister Ramadoss Honoured for his Exemplary Work

...d after a former US surgeon general who authored a landmark 1964 report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer and other illnesses, at a special ceremony in Washington Friday. The ministry has demonstrated its unrelenting stance on health promotion and tobacco control through its support of a comprehensive n...

XVI International AIDS Conference To Be Held In Toronto In August

... They concluded saying, “AIDS 2006 in Toronto is a landmark opportunity to work together to review our progress and renew our energies to make it appen.”...

New Test For Early-Stage Lung Cancer

...t. The test's promising results have initiated a landmark multi-center clinical trial, to be led by Duke investigators next year. Patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer, the most common and fatal form of cancer, will receive the genomic test and its results will determine their treatment. Th...

NICE Approves The New Class Of Breast Cancer Drugs

...g by a third. It was also stated that in June, the landmark Intergroup Exemestane Study had also found that switching over to Aromasin had cut the risk of death by 17%, when compared with those who remained on Tamoxifen. A trial with Arimidex that was given immediately after surgery had showed an extra 26% ...

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