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Extensive Campaigning To Warn Against Children’s Growing Affinity To Fast Food In Britai

... same fear has prompted a British heart charity to launch a poster campaign to shock children away from eating cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets and hot dogs. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has hired billboards around Britain to show burger and hot dog buns filled with gristle, bones and connective tissue...

UK Govt Says On Course For National Chlamydia Screening

...icult to detect but is easy to cure, following the launch in 2003 of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP). There has been a heightened concern in the medical fraternity about the rise chlamydia which is particularly common among young adults and teenagers. Chlamydia is a common sexually trans...

Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track

...d Genetic Centre in Delhi. Hota, who attended the launch of the book 'Human Embryonic Stem Cells: A Revolution in Therapeutics' a compilation of 100 clinical cases of human embryonic stem cells treatment done by a team led by fertility expert Dr Geeta Shroff, said that the government would soon put in plac...

Partnership Between Diabetes India And Elsevier Announced

...etes India. The partnership would be marked by the launch of a new journal, named Diabetes Research & Metabo...cialist journals in diabetes. He remarked that the launch of the journal as being timely and hoped that it would have a significant impact in the world of car...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

... In the UK, Tamiflu has been little used since its launch in 2003 and there have been only 41 yellow card reports linked with it of adverse reactions, involving 161 separate side effects. One case was of agitation and two were of confusional state. Under the yellow card system doctors record symptoms that c...

Cadila gets US FDA approval for Promethazine tablets

...to control motion sickness. The company plans to launch the drug in US this year. The US market for this drug is estimated at $116 million. The group had recently received approval to market Ribavirin capsules in the US market through its US subsidiary Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc, it added....

Poor Andhra Women Enable Bypass Surgery Paying 50 Paise Each

...tma Gandhi from a train in South Africa led him to launch a mass movement against the British. "Small events lead to great moments," said Rao. "We have suggested that the women should make similar monthly collections that will be useful to poor women facing serious financial difficulties. "Poor village wo...

Scientist Calls Upon Media To Retract His Work

... rejection. The work also led Hwang in October to launch the World Stem Cell Foundation as part of a large consortium of scientists on three continents working on stem cell research for therapeutic use. -Edited DPA...

Erectile Dysfunction Drug Viagra Launched In India By Pfizer

...il Citrate) was available in India much before the launch of the launch of the pill in the U.S. drug market before 7 years. An amendment in the patent law implemented lat...

Merck, ICMR to conduct joint trials on cervical cancer vaccine

...ion from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to launch the vaccine in the US market and is likely to apply for regulatory approval for the EU region soon. This study is in addition to the Phase III clinical trials that have to be completed for any drug to be approved by the regulator. Dr Leonard Tauro,...

Apollo And Stanford Team To Train Emergency Medical Technicians

...y Medicine International, US, would be marked by a launch of a first-ever international programme for training of emergency medical technicians in India//. The one-year full time programme would be conducted at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. Candidates who have passed Intermediate or an equivalent examinati...

Serum Institute Launches New Tetanus-Diphtheria Vaccine

...ia Marketing Director Masud Ahmed said - "With the launch of India's first indigenous vaccine in this segmen... There were other reasons also for the company to launch the vaccine. "The Indian Academy of Pediatrics has recommended the use of Td vaccine in all individu...

New tetanus-diphtheria combination vaccine launched by Serum Institute of India

...ears of age are susceptible to this disease. The launch of the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine is said to be significant following the rule of the US government according to which the vaccination has been has made mandatory for every person traveling to the country. The usage of the Td vaccine, more specific...

Jharkhand Pharmacies Refuse To Sell Viagra

...n global markets. "We have informed Pfizer not to launch the drug in Jharkhand. If our request is heeded, we will boycott the drug," said Sinha. Another druggist said: "If Viagra's consumption leads to any side effects, we will be in trouble for having sold it without prescription." Sinha said that the ...

Jharkhand Chemists to Boycott Viagra

...iagra to Jharkand. "We have informed Pfizer not to launch the drug in Jharkhand. If our request is heeded, we will boycott the drug," said Sinha. A medical shop owner also echoed the comments voiced by Sinha, “The common practice here is to sell medicines even without a prescription. But Viagra is supposed ...

Unique Smoking Helpline Launched In Manchester

... copied adults and started smoking. "I welcome the launch of the M.E.N. Quit Line. The NHS is here to help and support smokers - we never condemn or preach," he added. The Manchester Evening News says that last year around 2,500 benefited from the helpline and gave up smoking, which is the leading cause o...

Unique Smoking Helpline Launched In Manchester

... copied adults and started smoking. "I welcome the launch of the M.E.N. Quit Line. The NHS is here to help and support smokers - we never condemn or preach," he added. The Manchester Evening News says that last year around 2,500 benefited from the helpline and gave up smoking, which is the leading cause...

Gujarat Seeks To Scale Down Infant Mortality Rate

... bring down infant and mortality rates through the launch of its new health program. As many as 5,000 // mothers and 72,000 babies die every year during delivery in the State. Through this new program named Chiranjeevi, the government aims to bring the maternal mortality rates down from the present 3.89...

Reach Of The Morning-After Pill Treatment Inadequate Among Sexual Assault Victims

...nd counselors have urged the Ontario Government to launch a programme to ensure provision of drug treatment// to all victims of sexual assault, who might have been exposed to the HIV/AIDS virus. // The cost associated with this drug treatment ($1,200) has resulted in a limited availability of this therapy ...

India set to become the global knowledge hub

...ping world and the sixth globally to fabricate and launch its own satellites in geo-stationary orbit, with even has plans for a moon mission in 2010. Even in the field of collaborative research, some new trends are emerging. India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services, for example, has c...

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