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Cancer Patients Protest For Free Drug Treatment

...ides acute care for people in north Shropshire and mid Wales. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has meanwhile urged the primary care trusts (PCT) not refuse Herceptin treatment on the basis of cost. A group of cancer patients from Shropshire have said they intend to take their fight to be given Hercepti...

Contraceptive Use on the Decline among the Poor

...ng unwanted pregnancy and abortions. // During the mid 1980’s there was an effort made to reduce the increasing abortion rates but the current situation has worsened the condition. Sharon L. Camp, the president of the institute, said that there is an increase from 7% to 11% of non users of contraception ...

Gujarat Health Minister Ashok Bhatt Admitted To Hospital

...ergone angioplasty test for a heart aliment in the mid 90s, sources added. Source:PTI News...

Disgruntled GPs and Midwives Squabble over Maternity Care.

... imperative to ensure cooperation between GP’s and mid wives so that pregnant women can avail the best possible care under the GP’s, not having to pay more for less. The maternity care contract with amendments is slated to be out in 2007. ...

Ranbaxy Launches Clarithromycin, Terbinafine Tablets in Japan

...ough a strategic alliance with Nippon Chemiphar, a mid sized research pharmaceutical company. In July 2005, the JV between the two companies had introduced its first co-developed product Vogseal O.2mg and 0.3mg tablets for the treatment of diabetes. Last year, Ranbaxy had also increased its equity stak...

Waxing And Waning Of Dengue Epidemics Attributed To Cross-Immunity

...ne illness better. "We found that since about the mid 1980s, there's been a sequential replacement of the dominant serotype," said lead author Helen Wearing, a post-doctoral researcher at the UGA Institute of Ecology. "So, for example, one year serotype three is 60 percent of the cases and the next year...

Go Green with Popeye: Learn why his eyes pop out for spinach!

...eaxanthin to make an oily yellow substance, at the mid point of the retina. This yellow oil, called the macular pigment, is considered to be a protective cover against age-related macular degeneration or AMD. AMD is thought to affect nearly 12% of men in the UK and 29% of women, above 75 years of age....

FDA Approves Vectibix for Colorectal Cancer

...Schwalm said that Vectibix would be available from mid October for treatment of metastatic colon cancer. She said that a typical two month course of the drug will cost $16,000.It will be directly competing with Erbitux which is marketed by ImClone Systems and is approved for other cancers also. Vectibi...

Brand Name Drug Prices Zoom

...risen by 6.3% during the 12 month period ending // mid June 2006, against an inflation rate of 3.8%. The survey was conducted by AARP and reported in their Rx Watchdog Report released on Tuesday. It is also reported that the prices of 75 commonly used generic drugs remain the same. Heading the list of ...

Taking Statins May Help Smokers' Lungs

...ans. 182 smokers and 303 former smokers in their mid sixties were studied during this research. Other than 67 who had normal lung function, the rest had some form of lung disease. 238 of them were on statins. Lung functon tests over a period of 2.7 years revealed that breathing capacity decreased mo...

Improved Breast Cancer Survival Rates in NSW

...ates of breast cancer in New South Wales since the mid 1990s//. According to a report from the Cancer Institute, after 5 years of diagnosis, 88% of the breast cancer victims are still alive whereas 10 years back the survival rate was 77%. The Assistant Health Minister, Frank Sartor, says, "Greater aw...

ADHD Treatment -Phase 3 data on Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate Presented

...;br.The final results of the study are expected by mid 2007 when assessment of the children treated with LDX over a one year period will be completed. Source-Eurekalert MAL...

Mid-Day Meal Scheme Catches on in India

...s been revised in June 2006 to ensure provision of mid day meal of adequate nutritional value and provide additional central support to States/UTs.Central assistance is provided to States/UTs for the following components:- 1) Free food grains of 100 gems (rice/wheat) per child, per school a day 2) Coo...

YouTube’s Latest Use-Offering Medical Advic

...t easier.’ He added: ‘We are a practice in rural mid Wales, shops in Hereford and Aberystwyth are an hour away, Cardiff an hour-and-a-half, so although broadband access is not ideal, people tend to use the internet for all sorts of things.’ RI...

Link Between Family Size and Stomach Cancer Found

...r and his colleagues, who published a study in the mid 1990s in The New England Journal of Medicine on the relationship between H. pylori and stomach cancer based on this Hawaii cohort, went back to the blood samples from the men who developed stomach cancer and tested the samples for antibodies to H. py...

English Women Avoid Smear Test for Cervical Cancer

...in 1995. A parallel trend was observed in women in mid thirties group too. Women are said to avoid this test due to the painful and invasive procedures of the same. But according to the medical fraternity, the young women population who are avoiding this test are the ones who are at a greater risk. ...

Girls Encounter More Stress Than Boys

...hips//, says a study. Experts have known that by mid puberty (age 13 or so) more girls than boys experience depression. But the new study, reported by the online edition of Daily Mail, says girls experience more interpersonal stress and exhibit more depression symptoms than boys. Benjamin L. Hankin, ...

Napping Beneficial For Hearts

... University of Athens Medical School suggests that mid day napping is actually// good for men. This study was conducted among 23,681 healthy adults for a period of six years. It was found that people who had their afternoon siesta at least thrice in a weak for thirty minutes had a 37% less chance of dy...

Inquiry into Past NHS Treatment Disaster

..., which took place between the early 1970s and the mid 1980s, have been described by fertility expert Lord Winston as "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the national health service". Labor peer Lord Alf Morris, Britain's first minister for disabled people and the present president of the a...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...ased cancer risk for a subset of these children in mid and late adulthood appears highly plausible," the authors state. The carcinogenic effects of AZT were further demonstrated by a study on mice led by Hue-Hua Hong of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC...

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