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Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

... the poorer countries will be unable to afford the new drug cocktail as offered by Cipla. Another argument is that counseling and close monitoring of medication is equally important, at least in the developing world, where treatment for many AIDS patients is still only a dream. But for the hapless HIV ...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...it comes to drug testing when sometimes very toxic new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in the name of conducting a study.A new Harris interactive study report says that an alarming number of cancer patients say that they never ...

Lure of the home turf brings back NRI doctors

...ys Dr Rupinder Singh. The chance to be a part of a new and exciting healthcare delivery system andgive back to one's own country is also a huge motivator for Dr Singh, whoaccepted almost a 40 per cent pay cut to do this. Dr Joshi, also driven by the need to give back to the country and to give histwo chi...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

...ydoubled during the past six years, according to a new survey of pharmaceuticalcompanies.Currently, 170 pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms various CancerInstitutes are investigating 402 compounds for the treatment of variouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardr...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

... antibiotic vancomycin. The hope has been that the new drug would help tackle the growing problem of vanc...e learned to outsmart standard treatments. Without new drugs, experts fear some bacterial infections will become untreatable. Before 1989, no US hospitals...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...ght lobe from one adult to another is a relatively new procedure. It is increasingly being performed in the West where the demand for donated organs often outstrips the supply. However, potential donors are strictly screened to make sure that the procedure does as little harm as possible to their health....

Alternative medicine more popular among HIV positive patients

...tive to the AIDS positive patients, according to a new study. Among 191 HIV-positive outpatients surveyed about their use of complementary and alternative therapies, 67% said they had used alternative therapies at some point to control their HIV infection and 40% reported current use. The findings appear...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...hearing or psychological development, according to new research. Currently there are two reasons for ear...rgo surgery," said Perrin. Other doctors say the new findings will likely lead to discussions about re-evaluating current guidelines. "It may be reasona...

Nearly all asthma deaths preventable

A new survey says nearly all deaths due to asthma can be prevented if the patients and their doctors had better understanding of the disease. According to WHO, around 150 million people suffer from asthma worldwide and nearly 2 lakh people die due to the d...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...nd manufacturers have increasingly been developing new ways to minimize the pain from those finger pricks with a growing arsenal of glucose monitors, lasers and lancets. One of the newest monitors on the market is a device that allows a diabetic to test sugar using less blood, from places other than the...

TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa

...s now killing millions in Africa as it has found a new partner in its destructive mission. Full-blown cases of AIDS coupled with TB is killing on an average three million people a year in Africa alone. What is alarming is that the death rate has gone up by 10% in 2 years and there are no signs of the des...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...urnalist Edward Hooper's book "The River." But in new findings published in the journals Nature and Science, four research teams demonstrate that the Wistar vaccine did not contain chimp cells and that the virus that would become HIV likely jumped from chimps to humans just once--and not through a massi...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...e headed by Dr. Saraswathi Sukumar, have devised a new method of detecting early stages of breast cancer by using a new method called ductal lavage. Ductal lavage, involves "washing" breast milk ducts with saline and exa...

Hemopurifier may revolutionise AIDS treatment

A new purifier, which has performed well during clinical trials, may be the in thing in AIDS treatment. A blood purifier, which separates the HIV from circulating blood, has been developed and if found to be successful, this purifier, might mark the beginn...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...efront of efforts to find an effective vaccine and new treatments for the mosquito-borne disease, one of ...itutions trying to develop a successful vaccine or new drug treatments. Dr. Diane Griffin, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

...rough of sorts in cancer treatment, by designing a new drug, which attaches itself to a key position on cancer cells and gives new potency to failing chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced colorectal cancer patie...

Breast Feeding prevents obesity later on in life

A new research suggests that breast-feeding in infancy reduces the risk of becoming obese in life later on. According to Dr. William H. Dietz of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the research team, effects of breast...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

...protease to a lock, Dr. Freire said when there are new strains of the virus, the key will not fit the lock and hence it will be difficult to control the burgeoning AIDS situation in Africa. But he hopes that by adapting to the changes in the protease, a drug can be developed that would be effective again...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...e body's white blood cells often try to reject the new organ .It is here that ATG steps in. The rabbit ATG works to prevent this from happening without the problems caused by steroids. Unlike traditional long-term steroid treatment, normally used to reduce swelling and inflammation following organ trans...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...nk and Maharashtra state Government claim that the new hospital will cater not just for rich India's health system, and the poor people who can't get services will be helped".Tawhid Nawaz, task manager at the World Bank, told the BMJ: "The State Government could not have managed this hospital on its own....

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