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American Red Cross Fined $4.2m for Improper Blood Screening

...onor's travel history, for instance, the Red Cross opened the ``remote" possibility of donation by people who would normally be deferred. These could have included donors who had lived in England when mad cow infection rates rose in animals and spread to humans, and donors who had traveled to regions where...

Gamma Knife Offers Noninvasive Treatment for Vascular Disorders, Brain Tumors

...nt in UT Southwestern’s new Gamma Knife suite that opened last December. The college student reclined on a treatment couch and listened to a boom box playing a mix tape she had made of her favorite songs. Her head was immobilized in a stereotactic head frame whose coordinates provide a reference grid to all...

President Launches Madras University's 150th Year Celebrations

...ces," Kalam told students and academics here. He opened a virtual university portal, a joint project of Madras University with the Calcutta and Bombay Universities, by which millions of students will be able to access quality education. "Technology is a learning tool, linking economy and the environmen...

Doctor Slipped into Coma after Being Beaten by Crowds

... The police, after arriving on the troubled spot, opened fire to contain the violent crowd injuring five people in the process. Source-IANS...

Global avian flu database

...ble only to the members of the consortium, will be opened to public access within 6 months. According to the consortium the three databases participating in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration: EBML in the United Kingdom, DDBJ in Japan, and GenBank in the United States will be mad...

Researcher Hits Bulls-Eye for Antibiotic Target

A Purdue University researcher has opened the door for possible antibiotic treatments for a variety of diseases by determining the structure of a protein that controls the// starvation response of E. coli. This research is applicable to the treatment of many diseases because that same prot...

Babies at Hospital found to Carry Super bug MRSA

...ng cost of about ￡113m to build, the new facility opened its doors to the East Lancashire public on 8 July. Lynn Wissett, director of clinical care at the hospital, said: "The clinical condition of the babies is not affected and all are doing well. However, as a precautionary measure, these babies have b...

Rare Transplant Gives B.C Youngster 4 New Organs

...s when the blood vessels that supply the liver are opened up. For reasons we don't really understand, the patient can become unstable when the blood supply goes into the new liver." However despite the potential complications, Gairett's surgery went on smoothly and his parents found him sitting up in bed,...

Bihar schoolboy dies in fight over front bench

...ers, Qamar rushed into the class as soon as school opened and sat on the front bench. This was objected to by another student who came late and asked him to vacate the seat for him. Qamar refused, resulting in a heated exchange of words and then a scuffle. A group of boys started beating him and pushed him...

Good Morning! "Have Safe Sex Please"

...r to prevent HIV/AIDS. When thousands of residents opened their// newspapers this Independence Day they found a taped pack of three condoms on the front page. "Earlier we distributed condoms at wine shops and bars, through milk vendors and at pan (tobacco) shops but we met with lukewarm response," said As...

Apollo Group Permitted to Carry out Surgeries in its Oman Centre

...Ghana, Nigeria, Qatar and Kuwait besides the newly opened one in Oman. (Source: IANS)...

AIDS Control Programme to Focus on District Level

...afe sex practices and intervention centres will be opened on several highways," Rao told IANS. She said all mayors would be made part of the campaign so as to curb stigma and discrimination of the HIV-positive people in the rural hinterlands. "Besides, municipal chairmen, elected representative of panchay...

Research Leads to First Treatment for Drug-Resistant HIV

...e exceedingly potent," he said. Ghosh's work has opened the door to a new path for antiretroviral therapy. "Earlier, researchers were unsure of how to deal with drug-resistant viruses," he said. "Problems that arose with treatments developed in the 1990s were disheartening. There was no concept on the h...

Finally, The First Ever Treatment for Drug-Resistant HIV

...are exceedingly potent," he said. Ghosh's work has opened the door to a new path for antiretroviral therapy. "Earlier, researchers were unsure of how to deal with drug-resistant viruses," he said. "Problems that arose with treatments developed in the 1990s were disheartening. There was no concept on the ...

Cancer Hospice Opens New In-patient Unit

A new in-patient unit has been opened in the Marie Curie Cancer Care hospice in Belfast, which has marked a major milestone in its ongoing redevelopment.// The unit has made provisions for 18 individual en-suite rooms each of which open out onto a courtyard area. In addition the room...

British Doctors Hold Talks to end Impasse of Indian doctors

...d omen. However we are happy that the minister has opened up dialogue with BAPIO which may have potential to resolve the problem." BAPIO had organised a peaceful demonstration at the Whitehall April 21 and submitted a petition signed by over 6,000 doctors to the department of health. BAPIO has claimed ...

Bayer to Market Biocon Insulin in China

... investments in the biotech park that was recently opened in the electronics city on the outskirts of Bangalore. The company's consolidated revenue, however, increased by 21 percent to Rs.2.1 billion for the quarter under review (Q1) from Rs.1.8 billion posted in the same quarter a year ago. The earnin...

'Awake cardiac surgery' performed at Madurai hospital

...sia. He was talking and joking while his chest was opened and the two grafts were sewen, Raguram said. According to Dr.S.Kumar, Chief Cardiac Anesthesiologist of MMHRC, this was made possible because the patient's pain sensation was completely arrested in the operation site by selectively blocking nerves u...

Jharkhand Government to Open More Medical Institutes: CM

...umber of seats". The new medical colleges will be opened through public-private participation and officials have already been asked to prepare a blueprint for the purpose. "Our main motive is to take medical facilities to the last person in the state. We are going to invite private parties to open medica...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

...sive procedures that don’t require the skull to be opened are being offered at major hospitals. ? People who have a family history of strokes, or of aneurysms and AVMs, should talk to their doctors about having screening tests and brain imaging that could determine their risk of a stroke. The same is true ...

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