member 1 9

Tag: "member" at medical news

New Guidelines to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic

... Medicine at Laval University in Québec City and a member of the CPG Expert Panel. "Canadians must be alerted to the fact that their weight and body shape can have a serious impact on their long-term health, and that they need to act now to lessen their risk of heart disease and diabetes. Even a modest l...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

... had remained non-functional because the technical member had not been appointed. Hence the Novartis appeal in the court. Towards the fag end of the hearings in the case, the government announced that the Board had become functional. (The court has reserved orders on the Novartis petition challenging th...

OBC Creamy Layer May Be Dropped from Reservations in Institutions

...Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury supported Bhardwaj on excluding the creamy layer from the purview of the quota policy. The law minister cited a notification of the National Front government of V.P. Singh in 1990 implementing reservation for OBCs, which had exclude...

A Newly Identified Immunosuppressive Protein in Rheumatoid Arthritis

...s. Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) is a newly identified member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) super...apoptosis was induced by Fas, a protein ligand and member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family. Finally, FLS were incubated with the proinflammatory TNFá...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

...ical and nonsurgical care. Have you or a family member undergone successful surgery to treat Parkinson’s disease, congenital deformities, hydrocephalus, tumors of the central nervous system, low back or neck pain, stroke, cerebral aneurysms, head injuries, or any of the many other conditions treated by n...

Scientists Decode Genome of Oral Pathogen

... decay or gum disease, S. sanguinis is a prominent member of dental plaque. "Genomic studies of this organism will also help us better understand the formation of dental plaque and the initiation of oral diseases," added Macrina. The team reported that the genome of the gram-positive bacterium is a circul...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

...rts. To add to Novartis’ miseries the technical member of the new appellate court will be none other than Chandrasekaran, former Controller General of the Indian Patent Office, who had rejected its application for Glivec patent. A spokesperson of the Novartis has already expressed concern over Chandrasek...

Rare Case of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Between Dental Patients Recorded

...ent. No evidence of HBV infection was found in any member of the office staff. Blood tests indicated that the source patient had had chronic HBV infection with a high viral load at the time of oral surgery. Genetic analysis showed that virus of the same genotype and subtype was isolated from both patient...

Hope for Ending the Pain, Infertility of Endometriosis?

...ter chance of developing endometriosis if a family member has had it, and women who started their periods early may have a higher risk. 6. Treatment: Treatments can assist with the pain and fertility issues that arise with endometriosis. Pain medication, birth control pills or oral contraceptives, hormone...

Study Identifies Multiple Genetic Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer

...f genetics at Harvard Medical School and associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. "Both high- and low-risk combinations of variants are common in human populations." "The identification of these genetic variants is an important step in helping us understand the higher risk for prostate ...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...ted skin as well as the treated skin. Oberyszyn, a member of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, believes that the greater amount of naturally occurring antioxidant capacity in the females accounted for their ability to thwart a certain degree of tumor growth and spread. "This is the fi...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...ted skin as well as the treated skin. Oberyszyn, a member of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, believes that the greater amount of naturally occurring antioxidant capacity in the females accounted for their ability to thwart a certain degree of tumor growth and spread. "This is the fi...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

...e at New Delhi, the Indian capital on April 3, the member countries would commit themselves to a tele-medici... the proposal, two hospitals in each of the eight member countries will be linked with two super speciality hospitals of India via satellite, it has been sta...

FDA Cites Challenges of Generic Biotech

...m the drug industry and consumer groups. Ranking member Tom Davis, R-Virginia, argued that the complexity of biotech drugs makes it essential that would-be generic biotech makers be required to conduct clinical trials of their products. A vice president from Denmark-based Novo Nordisk, a biotech company...

MRI Screening of Other Breast Crucial for Patients Diagnosed With Cancer in One Breast

...f the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, said the percentage of cancers found in the opposite breast was huge. "If you were to screen the opposite breast with mammography in the general population, you would expect to find four to seven can...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

...datory vaccination against HPV for girls in all EU member states once they are 11 or 12. The issue has been controversial, as some parents fear such vaccines against sexually transmitted viruses could promote underage sex....

Cholesterol-lowering Drug Effective at Halting Early Atherosclerosis

... (sold under the trade name Crestor) is the newest member of a family of drugs known as statins that work to lower levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. Other statins have been tested – with similar results – in patients who’ve already had a heart attack or who had high cholesterol levels. This...

Genetic Pathways to Curable and Incurable Forms of Pancreatic Cancer Identified

...reatic cancer. Sunil Hingorani, M.D., assistant member of the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences divisions, led a study to be published in the March 12 issue of the journal Cancer Cell that explains this sequence and details why the cells behave differently. "Although at ...

Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection

...fluenza,” said Jonathan McCullers, M.D., associate member in the Infectious Diseases department at St. Jude. “Eliminating these secondary infections could dramatically reduce the sickness and death rates among susceptible populations such as infants and the elderly.” This new approach might also offer some ...

Rajasthan Launches Programs to Overcome Misconceptions About Childbirth

...lum population in the state. Judd, who is also a member of the PSI board, said: "Woman is the nucleus of the family and we need to preserve good healthy conditions for the fairer sex to promote her family. We also intend to address the misconception that a single act of intercourse may not lead to unwante...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10