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Government Organisation Proposes Strict Guidelines For SubStandard Medical Devices

...state drug controller. Officials say the current move is to make the existing system more comprehensive by including all kinds of drugs and medical devices that were left out from the existing guideline. A sub committee of the Drugs Consultative Committee (DCC) has been given the task of reviewing the g...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

... electrically charged, causes the DNA fragments to move at certain speeds depending on size. The short fragments squirt through quickly, the longer ones more slowly, Larson said. The fragments are stained with fluorescent tags, which allow scientists to distinguish one flu strain from the next, or tell if...

Condom Vending Machines Increasing Sexual Assaults On Women

...gnancies in the country. The government’s strong move maybe the only positive step forward in creating the vital awareness in the society on the use of condoms and proper protection during sexual intercourse. The instillation of strong moral values is a stride that perhaps organizations, women wing’s ...

Deadly Diarrhoea Vaccine – Trail Results Promising

...causes thousands of deaths annually in India. This move has been accelerated after phase I clinical trials showed up to 70 percent success among adults, children and infants.If the phase II trials are materialized, it is likely to yield more conclusive results towards complete protection from the disease....

Integrin helps healing process in cells

... and worked as a sort of tug boat that helps cells move along and respond to chemical messages sent out by...k, and call on other cells from the bloodstream to move into the wounded area. Quaranta and colleagues found that the second molecule, which appeared...

Bone tough

...rface of the bone and measured how long it took to move back into shape. "Bone, like abalone nacre, it is the substance that forms over a piece of grit to create pearls. The researchers describe abalone nacre as a biocomposite material with 'remarkable toughness'. In order to find out more about how the ...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...lue in predictability of disease, but it's still a move forward in understanding what kind of factors we can look at before birth and use as predictors for potential signs of disease,'' said Kent Thornburg, a fetal physiologist and director of the Heart Research Center at Oregon Health Sciences University...

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident

...icial prosthesis, relying on chains and buttons to move his arm. But then doctors at the Rehabilitation In...nd the outside object that needs to be moved. "To move something, you have to get a command signal from the brain to [an object,] whether it's a wheelchair...

Reducing The Risk Of Death In Sickle Cell Disease

...th in the adult sickle cell disease population and move forward with clinical trials to investigate therapies....

Tomato Extract Found To Reduce The Risk Of Thrombosis

...rease awareness of family heart health issues. The move is expected to fit with the company's strategy to differentiate in the functional food industry by investing in R&D and developing products that taste great, deliver proven health benefits, and carry credible health claims supported by strong scienti...

Experts Recommend Preventive Measures For Avian Flu To Begin From Farms

...d indicate that wild birds can become infected and move highly pathogenic avian influenza long distances. “Wild birds are sick and dying, so they may be the victims rather than the vectors of the disease. Laboratory testing from surviving birds will tell us if they are able to carry the virus during the m...

A Move To Help Commercial Sex Workers Quit Their Business

...s in the state to seek alternative employment. The move has been accelerated following the provision of $12.7 million for the project to be implemented in five years. // The decision to train sex workers on an alternative employment scheme has been taken up after the representatives of sex workers recomm...

Robo-Dog To Monitor Your Calorie Intake

...at foods like potato chips or cheese cake, it will move ponderously and play sorrowful music. The pooch should get its information from a pedometer, bathroom scales and personal digital assistant on which the owner is supposed to record his or her food intake. The data from these devices are sent to the...

New ultralight hand with better functionality and flexibility developed

...ther simple mimics that look like a hand but don't move or moving hands that have a simple single-motor gr...rolled by small contractions of the muscles, which move the wrist. To mimic the functioning of the human thumb, the Remedi-Hand uses two motors – one to all...

Genetic Eye Disorder Can Have Other Implications

... disorders that interfere with peoples’ ability to move their eyes horizontally (left or right). Collaborators in Saudi Arabia alerted them to patients they’d been seeing who had not only restricted horizontal eye movement, but also deafness and motor impairments. The Saudi clinicians began to carefully r...

Down syndrome simulated in animal model after successful chromosome transplantation

...e most common autosomal chromosomal disorder. This move is anticipated to transform medical research into genetic causes of the disease. Down's syndrome occurs in one in about every 800 live births and is also seen in a higher percentage of stillbirths and miscarriages. The chances of having a Down's syn...

Medical community worried that new curriculum will 'Promote Quackery'

...lum is not going to help anybody," He added: "The move would also lead to an increase in quackery," The worry that doctors have is that it will 'dilute' the standards of medical education and ‘weaken’ 'weaken' Indian System of Medicine as these systems will become subsidiaries to the main allopathic sys...

Indian Researcher Discovers Reason For Malignancy of Skin Cancer

... a dormant cellular process that lets them quickly move to other parts of the body, unlike other cancers that have to first find a healthy cell to latch on to. The dormant cellular process is set in motion by a gene called Slug, which is present in the "neural crest", an early cluster of embryonic cells ...

High Court Issues Notice To Centre On Smoking Ban In Films

...urt to quash the amendment rule. The government's move aims to stop new films or TV programmes from portraying smoking and old films to carry warnings. Around 800,000 Indians reportedly die from smoking-related diseases every year. --IANS...

Merck and Takeda to collaborate in the sale of Cancer drug Matuzumab

...s largest pharmaceutical company, will allow us to move ahead quickly with development and commercialisation of this potentially important product for cancer patients," said the head of Merck Ethical Pharmaceuticals, Elmar Schnee. Source: Indo-Asian News Services...

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