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A decade of service to cancer patients

...al Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram//. To mark its tenth anniversary, the Governer R.L. Bhatia released a souvenir on Wednesday. He handed over a copy of the souvenir to the RCC director Dr. D. Rajan.Mr. Bhatia, who applauded the services provided by the organization, donated Rs.50,000 to it. ...

WHO Makes No Bones about Global Polio Eradication

...2005 faced a gap in fructification, sending it off mark by more than two years. This was mainly due to the immunization boycott sparked off in Northern Nigeria by stiff-necked Islamic clerics in the year 2003. The present deadline of 2006 does seem bleak, with polio cases prevailing in Afghanistan, Indi...

Fresh Scare of Contamination in Pork Prompts 'Prompt' Recall by Authorities

... establishment number "EST. 21054" inside the USDA mark of inspection, as well as the package code, "9-19.... establishment number "EST. 21054" inside the USDA mark of inspection, as well as the package code, "10-27." * 3-pound packages of "Falter's Purity Brand,...

Older breast cancer patients may not be appropriately diagnosed or treated

...of elderly women who have not received// up to the mark breast cancer screenings and treatment, resulting in delayed diagnoses, as compared to the younger lot. David Litvak of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center of Orange County, Calif., and colleagues studied the records of 354 breast cancer patients who...

Attitude Towards Ethnic Identity Impacts Stress Levels

...ienced that day. For example, the students would mark whether they had a lot of schoolwork to complete or if they had a lot of demands made by their family. They were asked to rate their daily emotional status on a scale from zero to four, including how happy or nervous they felt that day. Those wit...

Neuroprotective properties of a protein in Jellyfish

...rwood believes his company is at about the 12-year mark in the typical 15-year cycle for a new drug to be developed. Moyer's research centers on brain changes that occur as a result of aging. Specifically, he is interested in the part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is responsible for forming...

Private Health Clinics in the Capital on Strike

...s 2.1 beds per 1,000 people as against the desired mark of five beds. "If all our hospitals are closed then the ratio will certainly fall below one bed per thousand people." Wednesday was the last day of the three-day traders' strike in the capital to protest against the sealing drive. Source-IANS...

A Hot Date with the Lucrative UK Pharma Market

...ot be in this position. The event was right on the mark with the tools provided and the people to meet; no way could I have met these people in two days by myself. It is excellent - very productive." David Staszak, Vice President Sales, Triumph Pharmaceuticals "The New Frontiers event was completely wort...

From a Lowly Yeast, Researchers Divine a Clue to Human Disease

...ng a single length of DNA are separated by gaps to mark boundaries. As the polymerase reaches the end of a gene, Sen1 flips a switch and knocks it off the DNA track. The group, led by Brow and Eric Steinmetz, compared normal yeast to a strain with a mutated form of Sen1 that does not see the stop signal...

Lung Cancer Surgeries Doesn’t Help Breaking Nicotine Dependence in Smoker

..." Patients who were able to quit by the one-year mark waited longer to attempt to smoke again, or never began again. In fact, more than one in four patients who smoked after surgery were nonsmokers at the 12-month follow-up, he said. "Perhaps for these patients, lung cancer surgery was a wake-up call to...

Andhra Wants Withdrawal of Warning Signal from ‘Beedi’ Packes

...ouse as soon as it met for the day. The warning mark was a major issue in elections in the constituency, which has more than 200,000 'beedi' workers. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party also demanded a statement from the chief minister on the issue. Amid the ruckus, Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy h...

Highlights from World Transplant Congress

... The Medawar Prize. To honor the occasion—and to mark outstanding new research that will lead to tomorrow's advances in transplantation—the official journal of The Transplantation Society, is a special issue dedicated to the World Transplant Congress. This issue includes the keynote speeches from the ...

And the Winner Is

...al is celebrating 166 years of its publication. To mark this, they are conducting a poll to find out which invention// in modern medicine is the greatest of all. The journal, launched in 1840, has listed 15 medical breakthroughs and they are inviting the public to have their say in the matter. The mo...

Young obese girls might develop heart problems later

...kes this observation very interesting. Obesity may mark the risk of dying due to prostrate cancer but not getting it. The finding arrived at a lucid correlation between weight and death from prostrate cancer. JYT...

New Test Predicts CLL’s Sensitivity to Experimental Drug

...iagnosed in 10,000 Americans each year, is an easy mark for the new drug because the cancerous cells are strongly dependent on a particular survival molecule, Bcl-2, that keeps the self-destruct signals at bay. They showed that the investigational drug neutralizes the Bcl-2 action, unleashing molecules th...

Generic Drug Utilization On The Rise

... and the government alike. The new Medicare data mark the third consecutive quarter of growth in generic utilization among those in the Medicare prescription drug benefit, indicating that beneficiary choice and broad formularies are yielding even greater savings as the program has progressed. Accordin...

Need for Cost-effective Hearing Implants

...ssor at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, at the function to mark the 1,000th cochlear implant surgery using the Australian device. Ash Adarkar, area manager south Asia of the Australian company, told IANS: "The machine is labor and time -intensive. It takes nearly six weeks to manufacture one device. Though the...

Blossoming Beauty Sammy Winward to Help Funding

...ncer, on St. David’s Day. The foundation plans to mark St. David’s Day by appealing for donation from the public. They plan a target appeal of 5 million pounds. The foundation will be giving away daffodil badges in return for donations .The badges will be made available at thousands of locals stores, s...

Children Find Effective Pain Relief With Ibuprofen

... The intensity of pain was studied children made a mark on a horizontal pain intensity scale from 0 to 100. Though the study intended to gauge the level of pain after 60 minutes from baseline, yet results were compared periodically by the researchers. The finding revealed that after 60 minutes, the chil...

Nearly 2,500 Mentally Ill Women in Delhi are Destitute: Abdul Kalam

...rganised by National Commission for Women (NCW) to mark the International Women's Day. He said statistics provided by the ministry of social justice and empowerment about the number of mentally challenged persons in the country reveal that there are over 900,000 females with mental illness. Of these "...

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