Sanofi-Aventis Allows Thais To Make Plavix
...ts. According to a health official the company had offered a special quota of 3.4 million Plavix tablets for 34,000 patients. The drug industry was shocked last November by the action of Thailand government when it decided to supersede the patent on Efavirenz, a drug for HIV from Merck & Co. Later license...Your Kids may Not Be Fat Because of too Much TV or Video Games
...ddle puts the blame on the mode of transport being offered to teenagers today. He says that says the real problem may be that children are being driven to school instead of riding their bikes and walking. The research by Loughborough's School of Sport and Exercise Science, which did not look at diet, found ...Junior Doctors of UK Stage Walkout
...one interview each, in spite of many of them being offered more than even two. Complaints against the onli...ir first choice interview, rather than a few being offered several choices", she added. <B...Regulation Suggested For Private Medical Screening
...y the private health sector. The medical screening offered by the private firms can range from a cheap cholesterol test to a whole body scan costing thousands of pounds. This might cause anxiety among the patients. Sir Grey also added that they are contemplating measures to control private testing as it is...Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid
... Mr Depinder S Kapur, Country Representative, WAI, offered solutions to tackle the iniquitous urban growth. These included: transparency in all plans and reforms, Individual connections for slum dwellers, irrespective of tenure; underground/covered drainage within slums; community managed toilets/ bathing an...Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots
... relevant authorities. Currently, teenagers are offered only a booster jab to the diphtheria, tetanus and ...seases. Says Finn: ‘Not all adolescents will be offered all the vaccines, but we need to be prepared. "Up to now all our efforts at promoting the positive...Legal ‘high’ Drugs Declared Illegl
...ication, by vets. Yet these are now increasingly offered to partygoers as legal ways, to get high. The rocketing use of these drugs have forced UK’s medicine regulator, the Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHPRA), to put the brakes on their sales. The drugs containing BZP or Benzylpi...Spirituality Increases as Alcoholics Recover
...y individual faiths or religious institutions have offered recovery services, and some advocates have suggested that faith-based recovery is most effective for all. But Robinson notes that the spirituality seen in the study was not necessarily a matter of believing in one interpretation of God, or even belie...Older Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Radiation Therapy
... have shown that older women are less likely to be offered chemotherapy, hormonal treatments or radiation. Young women are more likely to receive aggressive treatment for their breast cancer. This study showed some important things: 1. Women in the study who had a lumpectomy without radiation were found ...eSie Touch Elasticity Imaging, and a Promise of Avoiding Breast Biopsies
...psies. The software for this diagnostic advance is offered with the 5.0 release of the Acuson Antares ultrasound system, premium edition. Clinicians use this innovative application to generate an "elastogram" which provides additional information about mechanical properties, e.g. the stiffness of breast l...British Doctors Eye for Private Hospitals in India
...ies in Australia and New Zealand last week. He was offered a yearlong surgical post at a hospital in New Sout...I still hope to come back to the UK [but] if I was offered a training programme in Australia I would stay.' Keatley Adams, a consultant community rheumatolog...TB Incidence on Rise Among Children in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra
...for TB and after excluding active tuberculosis are offered chemoprophylaxis using Isoniazid, he added....Poison Control Training and Research Centre at Chennai
...buraj announced that a certificate course would be offered to village health nurses at the centre and that in course of time similar centres would be set up in all district headquarters. He also revealed that the state had registered about 20,000 cases of snake or insect bites last year and that during the...No Takers for India's First Bird Flu Vaccine
... "The immune response is good and the protection offered by the vaccine has been found to be above 90 percent. The protection should last up to six months for hens. For a broiler it needs to be administered only once," he added. Source-IANS...US Consulate to Start Hyderabad Operations Next Year
...led on Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who offered land for setting up a permanent facility. Reddy as...the required security. The state government has offered 10-acre sites near the Microsoft facility at Gacchibowli and near Wipro at Gopanpalli. US officials ...Down Syndrome Testing for All Mums?
... in the pregnancy. In the past, screening was only offered to mothers older than 35 years. “Accurate ultrasound testing for Down syndrome requires properly trained operators with good ultrasound machines,“ say the authors. “These are in short supply, and this, along with the need for quality control, mea...Steroid Use Fails to Boost Pregnancy Rates in Infertility Treatments
...ance. “At present, glucocorticoids should not be offered as a routine procedure in women undergoing ART (assisted reproductive technologies), except in the context of well-designed studies,” the reviewers conclude. Glucocorticoids can bring on problems such as infections or premature births. Though the ...Research Improves Kidney Transplant Chances for Sensitized Patients
...hing. When a "perfect match" occurs, the kidney is offered to the person at the top of the national list. If there are no perfect matches nationally, the kidney becomes available to transplant centers in the region from which it came. The Emory Algorithm, while still following these guidelines, allows a t...Nonsurgical Thoracic Aorta Repair Has Much Less Risk of Paralysis Than Surgery
... to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta// offered patients less risk of paraplegia as well as lower morbidity and mortality rates when compared to surgery. During surgical repair the patient is at increased risk of paraplegia because the thoracic aorta is clamped, cutting off blood to the spinal col......a boost'. ? The physically-challenged have been offered One-lakh jobs every year with a salary limit of Rs...lusive health insurance scheme for senior citizens offered by National Insurance Company. I have asked the other three public sector insurance companies to off...